The Devil's Rejects Movie
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TAGLINES
A Tale Of Murder, Mayhem and Revenge
Death walks behind. Hell waits ahead.
The new film by Rob Zombie.
This summer, go to Hell...
Go to Hell!
Sequel to 'House of 1000 Corpses' is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in 'House of...') who's obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding's half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.
| Sid Haig | Captain Spaulding |
| Bill Moseley | Otis |
| Sheri Moon | Baby |
| William Forsythe | Sheriff Wydell |
| Ken Foree | Charlie Altamont |
| Matthew McGrory | Tiny |
| Leslie Easterbrook | Mother Firefly |
| Geoffrey Lewis | Roy Sullivan |
| Priscilla Barnes | Gloria Sullivan |
| Dave Sheridan | Officer Ray Dobson |
| Kate Norby | Wendy Banjo |
| Lew Temple | Adam Banjo |
| Danny Trejo | Rondo |
| Dallas Page | Billy Ray Snapper |
| Brian Posehn | Jimmy |
| Rob Zombie |
6.90 out of 10 (15921 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Tutti-F*ckin'-Fruity!
posted on 30 Aug 2009Since i saw the trailer for this film i couldn't wait to see it but i admit i was a little worried because most sequels don't even come close to their predecessors, but i was wrong and the worry was for nothing as this is better than the first in every way! The film is about the Firefly family being hunted down by a Sheriff whose brother was killed by them in the first film. The Characters all return Captain Spaulding, Baby, Otis, Mother Firefly and Tiny are all here (some are played by different actors) although Tiny's screen time is limited and Mother Firefly spends most of the film behind bars. But this doesn't mean that the film isn't fun because the remaining killers are the best of the bunch which is why i think Director Rob Zombie gave them the leads.The film is a mix of 3 genres horror, western and comedy. And believe me the comedy is totally hilarious from Baby's little songs (Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!) to chicken sex (you'll see what i mean). Meanwhile the horror is really brutal and sometimes uncomfortable to watch even for the most hardened horror fan like myself. People get shot, stabbed and beaten to death and this may seem like the same old deaths in every horror film but the cheery music that accompanies these scenes have a strong effect which i can't describe.Finally the ending i'm not going to spoil it for you but when the Sheriff catches the three runaways i couldn't help but feel sorry for them! Which is weird considering all the things they've done like an hour ago!!! This is a great film, i can't recommend it enough. BRING ON THE DVD!!!
An insult to 70's horror
posted on 29 Aug 2009I'd like to open this review by admitting that "The Devil's Rejects" works as grade B trash, but not to the extent that Zombie would like--it doesn't have the depraved magic of "The Hills Have Eyes", Spinelli's "Maniac", or Craven's few gems before he became a corporate sellout. Also, I find a great deal to admire in Rob Zombie's music and some of his comic book endeavors, but he just can't make movies.
He's simply too mainstream now just to have fun, and as a result the genre is wee weed upon once again, people fancying this substanceless piece of sadism as "horror" or that it has anything to do with the films it shamelessly imitates. Yeah, people get run over by trucks and fleshmasks are made, the three main characters are vile maniacs who seem to have popped out of nowhere, and Michael Berryman runs around, but a young Tobe Hooper did not make this movie. Rob Zombie did.
Zombie completely lacks originality; he tries too hard to alternate between the contemporary and the vintage ("Natural Born Killers" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" just don't mix)
and the acting is so bad that it makes some Troma films look like Academy Award material. Captain Spaulding, Otis and Baby aren't believable even on the pathological level. All we get are three greasy pieces of trailer trash with a homicidal edge.
And isn't it strange that none other than Rob Zombie should make the very first film in which I actually rooted for a cop. Nothing Wydell does seemed remotely wrong to me dealing with these three specimens. Even watching them die in the overextended, boring last scene was pleasant in a dull way.
Why does a guy who is so refreshingly obsessed with horror in his music and elsewhere have to f**k things up like this? Roger Ebert had the audacity to call this "a good example of the genre". Maybe he has Alzheimer's (or just a particularly bad case of morbid obesity), but I guess he forgot about "The Innocents", "The Haunting", "The Omen", etc. He's certainly old enough to have seen the quality as opposed to garbage like this.
Zombie should stick to music.
Missed the mark by 1000 corpses
posted on 28 Aug 2009Take the most powerful horror characters, of what the past 12 years or more, and then put them in a Raod Movie and take away the humor, power, and pure craziness of these characters, and you get Devil's Rejects. I was greatly anticipating a film as good as 1000 Corpses, man that was a crazy freak show ride. Spaulding, pops off with these great one liners, and Baby, "B-A-B-Y whats that spell", were so great! In this film, Reject's, Hell, Captain Spualding was flat, and humorless, and never even really killed anyone. Baby and Otis came across as weak and of course under the power of the wooooo a Bad Cop. Wow thats a shocker, and Bad cop, whatever. And what about tiny getting blowed up at the end WHY? Seeing Otis and Baby in this movie, played so far from the previous movie bummed me out, hell why not just make them different characters.1000 Corpses, was a great film and a great new horror film, Reject's is not.
So Bad
posted on 28 Aug 2009This movie was so bad, I still can't get over it. I loved House of 1,000 Corpses, and was holding this film to the standards that it set. I was DEEPLY disappointed. Not only is the storyline boring, but the acting (with the exception of maybe one or two characters) was awful. I couldn't even sit through this entire movie, which makes this one of maybe TWO movies that I've literally hated. I can't express how horrible I thought this was. The directing was done fairly well. I think that Zombie certainly got his point across. The disturbing, makes-you-want-to-take-a-shower feel of House of 1,000 Corpses remains strong. However, this movie just didn't cut it. If Zombie made a new film, I'd see it... I still have hope. If you haven't seen this movie, I'm sure my telling you how bad it is won't keep you from renting it. Just go into it knowing... its not as bad-ass as you hoped it would be.
A badly acted, self important, piece of sadistic tripe
posted on 28 Aug 2009The first thing that sticks out about this film is just how poorly acted it is. Its really one of the worst acted films that I've ever seen. You tend to overlook bad acting in more comic films like house of 1000 corpses because it had a B-movie sensibility.This film tries to play it too straight and this puts the spotlight right on the stilted dialogue and atrocious acting.The whole film tries to convince you how clever it is by showing people acting exactly opposite of what anyone considers decent human conduct. For some reason some people find this entertaining. I just find it juvenile, and boring. Its not clever, the writer of the film isn't clever, and neither is the director.They just show their lack of creativity and express this frustration over being losers by tearing down the conventions of humanity and pretending like they're worth a damn.They're not, they're losers, and they are profiting from garbage. Everyone reaps what they sow, glad I'm not going to reap what the losers associated with this film are going to reap.
Amen!!
posted on 25 Aug 2009The critics hated this movie so that should tell you that it f-ing
rocks!! I thought that great horror movies was a thing of the past until I saw this awesome movie. I am really into horror and gore so it takes a lot to shock me - and this movie did it!! take your kids and your grandma and watch them cry. I hope Rob has more movies in his future.
Bottom Of The Barrell
posted on 25 Aug 2009House of 1000 Corpses was actually a semi-decent kinda party horror movie for fun, but this sequel is just plain crap. Probably the most offensive movie I've seen has you sitting in your chair the whole time saying "#$*# that I'd woop that crazy dude's @$$" and yet it never happens. Just a pointless waste of film and proof that Rob Zombie has no talent whatsoever, musical or otherwise. Without a doubt THE worst movie I have ever seen..and I've sat through Ever After and the South Park movie (ha).
Better of the two Rob Zombie films!
posted on 23 Aug 2009Was it just me or could you sympathize with the killing trio in the Devil's Rejects? In House of 1000 Corpses, it showed the ruthless killing side of the brutal three, but in Devil's Rejects it's showed the soft, sentimental, family values side of them. Awww! Even though this trio kills without regret and kills ruthlessly, you can relate with them and I think that's what makes this movie all the better than House of 1000 Corpses. Rob Zombie did an exactly job of capturing both sides of this vicious killing trio. *Two thumbs up*
One of the Most Entertaining Films of the Year
posted on 23 Aug 2009"The Devils Rejects" is the sequel to Rob Zombie's "House of 1000 Corpses" which in my opinion returned horror films to what they used to be.
By that I mean gory, bloody, sadistic, horrific, and funny that such films
as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" showed us so many years ago. Problem was, "House of 1000 Corpses" was raped by critics and a majority of it's audience didn't enjoy it. The film still grossed $25 million, which was enough for a sequel. "The Devils Rejects" I figured was going to be the same thing, but then something happened. The film got good reviews...Intriguing...So, after failing to see it in theatres I went and rented the movie and with the lights out I began watching a marvelous film. The film opens with Sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe),whose brother George was killed in the first film, leading a search and destroy mission the infamous Firefly house. Inside are Otis (Bill Moseley, superb), Mother Firefly
(Linda Easterbrook replacing Karen Black), Rufus, and the gorgeous
Baby (Sheri Moon, appropriate name considering how many times her a$$ appears onscreen...Not that I'm complaining). After a shootout Rufus is dead; Mother Firefly is arrested; and Baby & Otis are on the run. After ending up at a motel Otis and Baby meet up with their father Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig, marvelous) and run from Wydell, who's only goal is to kill the entire Firefly family. Now, I don't really want to say it for fear of a large number of negative votes but I believe that this is one of the best films of the year. It's extremely entertaining, the script (dialouge, plot, what have you) is perfect, the acting is great (Haig, Moon, and Moseley are great together), and the dialouge is great as well. Every improvement Zombie could've made from House he has made with The Devils Rejects. The atmosphere built in this film is also different from the first one. House had a dark, grainy atmosphere and interesting sequences that showed the thoughts in a characters head. This movie has a brighter, desert-y atmosphere simalar to a road movie. As far as plot, in the first movie there was the stereotypical
dumb teenagers getting killed one-by-one; while in The Devils Rejects it depicts Spaulding, Otis, and Baby trying to get away from a sadistic cop. I almost forgot to mention Tiny (Matthew McGrory) is in the film little, sadly enough McGrory died (I didn't know until the end of the film). Anyway, this film is a must for any horror film fan, it's truly brilliant. A+
I cannot believe how good this movie was!
posted on 22 Aug 2009I never thought I would write such a positive review of a Rob Zombie film. I have a certain weak spot for horror films, I tend to prefer the more psychological films (ie: The Shining and The Omen) I was never a huge fan of the slasher genre. I found that The House of a 1000 Corpses was one of the worst films I had seen in years and was surprised that someone with Rob Zombie's talent would make such garbage for his film debut. I avoided The Devil's Rejects in theaters at all costs. I slowly started to hear good word of mouth for the film and rented it. WOW! I never thought a film like this would stick with me for so long. The Devil's Rejects is easily one of the best films of 2005. It is pure 1970's grind house cinema. After watching this movie you will want to bathe feeling dirty watching it and even dirtier for enjoying it so much. The tone of this film is more serious although it features some of the funniest lines I've heard in a while. The violence is disturbing and sadistic but not gory. Many people have called this film gory but thats not true. The ideas are disturbing and most of the horrific moments are left to the viewer's imagination (Think the Shower Scene from Psycho). The acting is surprisingly good and has some of the best dialog you will hear this year. Even the soundtrack comprised of mostly classic Southern Rock fits the film like a glove. Do not consider this film as a horror film think of it more as Thelma and Louise Meet the Manson Family. If you have been debating whether to rent this film or not take a chance on it and you won't be disappointed.
Worth the 2 year wait!!
posted on 18 Aug 2009Horror movies don't get better than this. Rob Zombie has captured the essence of what horror films are supposed to be like. These people do have weaknesses they aren't immortal. They do get frusturated, they do get caught, they can die. (In which they do in an awesome ending in a standoff on a highway. ) Rob Zombie must be fascinated with his wife Sherri's butt because it in this movie about 4 separate times. This movie almost crosses that line it is a centimeter away from doing it. You don't know who to root for throughout the movie.(I was going for Sheriff Wydell but when Tiny broke his neck I was like NOOOOO!) I couldn't wait for this movie to come out. This movie is a great movie, when this DVD comes out I will be the first to buy a copy. GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely Excellent Movie !!!
posted on 18 Aug 2009I loved this movie. I loved "House of a Thousand Corpses", and I love this one. This movie is so well written and directed, that you feel you know these people personally. And, even though the "family" are blood thirsty and heartless killers, you almost feel sorry for them at the end when they are killed. That is how well written and directed this movie is. Rob Zombie is the best directer ever. The beginning of the movie opens so well with the newspaper clippings showing what the family is into with the murders and all. This movie flows very well from one scene to the next. Another thing is the way the family is close to each other. The brother, Otis, and the sister, Baby, are very close to each other as well as the other brother and the mother. I haven't seen a movie that makes you feel so close to the characters as much as this one does. There is no question, this is the best movie ever. I truly wish I could meet Rob Zombie so I could shake his hand and congratulate him on an excellent work.
Not as bad as House of 1000 Corpses...
posted on 18 Aug 2009I am a huge White Zombie fan and I respect Rob's solo work. I really wanted to like these films. Perhaps I expected too much.Sid Haig (any relation to Alexander Haig?) was good once again, but maybe it's because all the other performances were so bad. This movie was a lot less campy than the first one, but apparently no one told the actors. Surprising gem was Priscilla Barnes. This was a gutsy performance on her part. Sheri Moon shouldn't even be allowed to watch movies, let alone act in them. Three of her four movies (all her starring roles) have been projects of her husband (Rob Zombie) and I'm quite sure if I tried hard enough, I could find a tie in for the odd one out. Bill Mosley's character was a flat and boring homicidal maniac. Really. Or, once again, maybe it just seemed that way because everyone else was so over the top.My main problem with the 1000 Corpses was that it was campy and in large stretches, fairly inane. Maybe it was a parody and I didn't get it. Well, the campiness was greatly reduced in Rejects (once again horribly over-acted by most of the players) but the stupidity still runs rampant. I'm not going to even attempt to weed out the plot holes in this thing. Suffice it to say that it now seems to fall somewhere between parody and homage. I'm not sure he was trying to do either. There's really nothing new here as all the plot devices have been used countless times before. This is a horror movie created by someone who's watched a lot of horror movies and said "wow, cool, I'll put THAT in MY movie someday". The ending was obviously fleshed out by playing a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, or more precisely, Tack the Ending on the Movie.I know there are lots of Rob Zombie fans out there who would applaud and scream 'masterpiece!' even if this was a 20 minute video of Zombie taking a crap, but if you took away the Zombie name, you'd have a lackluster B-movie destined for celluloid oblivion. I'd suggest going back to music, but I've just heard the first three tracks from the new album and they weren't too impressive either (the title track is particularly heinous). There's no album art anymore. Cartoons, perhaps?
Partly good but there are some character and tone problems
posted on 16 Aug 2009I'm a little torn on this movie. I think maybe I wanted to like it more than I really liked it. Parts of it are great, and parts of it are not so great. It definitely rose above 1000 Corpses in terms of character development and cinematic style. Certain scenes are put together real well, and there are some very intense moments.I think my biggest problem with it is that it felt like it's supposed to be sort of a fun, butt-kicking romp on a certain level, and it was a little too grim for that to work. The tone just didn't fit in with the severity of the situations. I've got no problem rooting for bad guys, or having anti-heroes that you root for, hell, I've written a feature script about an anti-hero serial killer. It's just that these anti-heroes are kind of hard to root for, or to even care about at all, because they're absolutely awful, disgusting human beings. You just don't like them, or I didn't anyway. Sure, Baby's hot and somehow kind of appealing in a psychotic sort of way, but Otis is just a sickening display. The character is played brilliantly by Bill Moseley, and it might be his best role ever, but that character needs to be the bad guy in a movie. That was one of the weaknesses of 1000 Corpses - there were no good guys that you gave a crap about. You didn't want them to make it through alive. The bad guys were so much more interesting, which is always a slasher flick trait, but these killers were so much more developed than the one dimensional good guys that you just didn't care what happened. Devil's Rejects is like that too, but there aren't even any good guys to watch to see if they make it. William Forsyth's sheriff character is great and he nailed it, but given the choice of him catching the Firefly family or the Firefly's getting away from him, I really didn't care which happened. I felt like they just took all the different bad guys from lots of different movies, and threw them all together in one story. Like I said, the characters are interesting on their own and well developed, but when you don't have any foil for how nasty they all are, it's easy to not care about the outcome of what's going to happen. I have the same problem with movies by folks like Sam Peckinpaugh - that nihilistic approach where all the characters are disgusting just kinda gets old and leaves me wanting more characters I can identify with. There are plenty of movies with characters who are immoral or criminals or whatever that are likable - Tarantino is great with this for example - but Devil's Rejects didn't pull that off very well in my mind.Some highlights - it was really nice seeing so many horror icons in one movie. Michael Berryman and Ken Foree were a great team. Sid Haig is very good, once again, and delivers some pretty good lines. The duo of Danny Trejo and DDP was pretty awesome, too. It also has a kick ass soundtrack and some very cool camera-work in places. It's a little too "shaky cam" at times, but a lot of the hand-held stuff is pretty effective. The Freebird section (to not give too much away) was also very effective although maybe a little too drawn out. If I had had felt more in touch with the characters it might have been even more effective. There's a nice little tribute to Empire Strikes Back as well that was pretty funny.Overall, it's a mixed bag. It's fun to see this cast go all out and be the most insane bunch of lunatics you've ever seen, but it's very brutal, dark, and nihilistic. If that's what you're in the mood for, then check it out. It's certainly not for everyone. The sheer brutality of it will turn off lots of folks. I haven't seen so many walk out of a theater since House of 1000 Corpses. Somehow I just wanted to like the characters a little more. Maybe I wasn't in a deranged enough mood when I saw it. I'll give it 5 stars out of 10.
Surprisingly, one of the best movies of the year.
posted on 15 Aug 2009I am a fan of House of 1000 corpses, so naturally I wanted to see Devil's Rejects. This movie took all my hopes of what I wanted it to be and smashed them to pieces, because it is 100 times better than that. There is so much good stuff in here it's hard to know where to begin.
The acting is amazing in this movie. It has a healthy lineup of not very famous but proven actors. People like Ken Foree and Danny Trejo. There is not one actor in this who I snickered at.
Rob Zombie has accomplished something amazing with this film. He got me to sympathize with killers, something I did not expect going in. There are no real "Good Guys" in this movie, some are just less bad than others, but you don't really hate any of them.
I also experienced pretty much every emotion while watching this movie: Smiling happily at the family bonding, laughing at Captain Spaulding, being shocked and horrified at some of the scenes, gripping the armrest at others, and occasionally getting almost misty-eyed. I don't know how Rob was able to accomplish all of this but I can't wait for his next movie.
In conclusion my friends and I were made into instant fans of this movie. I wanted to get a T-shirt one friend went and bought the soundtrack, and I think we'll all get the DVD when it comes out. I also had to download "Freebird" because I will think of the "Devil's Rejects" every time I hear that song. So Hurry out and watch this movie before it leaves, but don't bring the kids because it's pretty much the hardest "R" ever.
Yes, this movie is so bad that even the devil would reject it!
posted on 15 Aug 2009Thil film depicts ultra violence and gore. It tries to scare the audience with brutal ways of killing people
but the acting was so bad it's laughable. For example, in one scene a person was being killed with an ax. The
killer hit his victim at least three times with an ax. The victim screamed and moaned but he continued
to talk! His face was covered with blood but it showed no pain at all. The make-up looked absolutely fake.
It's so boring that I rejected it from the player after finishing two-third of it.
There are much better horror movies which made me shudder. They are: Slither, Cabin Fever, 28 days later,
Pet Semetery and the Grudge.
if easily offended go watch disney
posted on 11 Aug 2009I enjoyed "house of 1000 corpses" immensly, that was the movie that the original texas chainsaw should have been but in parts a bit too weird, the sequal "The devil's rejects" just blew me away.
I am a major fan of 70's/80's horror and am really fed up with the current hollywood crap, finally on a trip stateside I got to see this, WOW superb film Rob Zombie has really developed as a film maker.
I must say I began to feel for the Murderous family and felt like cheering them on, shame Grampa and Dr Satan didn't appear and the change of Ma firefly was not too bad, but all in all full marks, very very violent but filmed in a way as to make it seem less horrid, the ending is the best movie ending in a long time, beautifully filmed with a nice soundtrack but at the same time a horribly violent scene.
Be warned this film will only appeal to a cult audience, it is not your mainstream movie, from the 'Ned Kelly' style shoot out at the beginning to the end ther is lots of naughty language and not very nice behaviour to say the least.
I know that we in the uk get it on DVD on Dec 26th and I will be buying it (unless a stateside unrated version appears first the BBFC will probably cut this to ribbons).
If you like your Violent Gorefest movies then WATCH THIS FILM
If you like mainstream hollywood remakes (that's about all we seem to get these days) THEN AVOID THIS MOVIE
Geoff
What a ride.
posted on 04 Aug 2009I enjoyed this follow up to House of 1000 Corpses in a way that's hard to express without sounding like a total headcase.I've read numerous reviews which complement Rob Zombie for the technical virtuosity he displays here, and that this is a big improvement on 1000 Corpses (which I also liked), but that The Devils Reject's is for people who think Charles Manson were paragons of virtue; messianic seers who symbolise a rich an valuable vein of counter-culture. Hmmmm… Straight up, straight down, The Devil's Rejects is extremely violent, gory, sadistic, worrying, profane and seedy. And I loved it. It's hard fast, tough and dealt out with a brio that is hard to find in any cinema, anywhere in the world. Great praise must be directed towards Phil Parmet's tremendous Super 16mm photography, which is grainy and visceral, colourful and gruesome; he transforms the parched landscape into almost surrealist terrain. Anthony Tremblay's production design is also absolutely superb, creating the world of 1970s Texas with great detail: it's really convincing and thus when the characters run around like headless chickens, the art direction makes it look all the more convincing.The film also takes no time to get going: the narrative starts immediately. Five minutes in, we're in the middle of a brutal gun battle, with the beleaguered Firefly family trying to ward off the emissaries of the Texas Rangers in Ned Kelly style armour. Suffice to say, it all goes to hell. Several of the Rejects are killed, and Momma Firefly is captured. Two, however (Otis, and Baby Firefly), make a break and go on the lam, meeting up with the iconic Clown Captain Spalding. Thus the stage is set for the ultimate, hellish road trip, with the three surviving members of the brood trying outwit just about everything the States of Texas has to throw at 'em and the increasingly demented Sheriff Wydell, who is being haunted by his brother, a previous victim of the Rejects.The Firefly Family kill whomever they want to and whenever they please. Meet them, and they'll scrag you before you blink an eye, or after they've tormented with vituperations about haw much of a loser you are, or just torture you. The family has, apparently, amassed a record of MORE THAN A THOUSAND MURDERS. Move over… Well, just about ANY serial killer. This family is the ultimate in unmitigated monstrosity and unprovoked murder. They really kill just 'cause they hate everyone – and I mean everyone.Rob Zombie has certainly improved as film-maker since 1000 Corpses: this is a more accomplished, homogeneous, aggressive and accomplished work. It's the work of a real film-maker and it's had to fault his basic nuts-and-bolts assemblage of cinematography, editing, design and music. His frame of reference has also expanded because he riffs on Leone, Peckinpah (specifically The Wild Bunch), Bonnie and Clyde, (maybe) Badlands, as well as the old faves (such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deranged). His narrative also seems to be structured around homage, following famous conflagrations or serial killers: The Alamo, Gacy, Ed Gein, or Anthony Perkins from Psycho.It's quite a ride then – and the soundtrack is a killer: Allmanns, Lynrd Skynrd, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Buck Owens to name but a few.However, I can well understand the arguments against the film. Some have argued that Zombie celebrates the Firefly family, seeing them as rebellious, non-conformist and individualistic, who reject any form of suppression. They might be a bit excessive and bonkers, but they're to be supported and followed in their total rejection of any form of authority. I can appreciate how people might see it that way. For one, I didn't always like the actors: I thought the like of Geoffrey Lewis and Ken Forsythe (why isn't this dude more famous – he's almost as cool as Clint!) eclipsed the Firefly Sheri Moon Zombie and the others. They were just more layered and convincing as performers. Also the film is certainly over-balanced in favour of the Fireflies: we never really learn much about their apocalyptic antics prior to what we see in the film, and the forces they're fighting against, such as Sheriff Wydell are straight-lipped Dirty Harry types who basically want to stop the Fireflies mucking about. I certainly didn't think Zombie made the Firefly repellent enough (they are truly evil people) and I think it would have made the film more powerful if the Fireflies were villains rather than ambiguous heroes, since there would have been no-one to root for.But still, I really enjoyed this. It was a real adrenaline rush, always inventive and full of incident. True: it kind of rejoices in a form of evil, but lacks the sophistication to really ram a message like: "violence and death are cool – go hurt someone!" Perhaps I should be grateful that Zombie never succeeds in saying something like that, because then I'd need to certified and I'd also probably have been watching a snuff film. Whatever you do, don't take it seriously. Hopefully, R.Z. doesn't want us to take it seriously – just enjoy it like horror aficionados.But this is still and ride to remember.
A change for the better
posted on 30 Aug 2009This movie was actually one of the most heart warming and visually artistic films I've ever seen. Rejects changed the way I watch movies and look at life. The way Zombie uses freeze frame, slow motion, and music are some of the best uses I've ever seen. Particully in the final scene as The Reject's shoot it out with the cops in slow-mo while free bird plays. I know it's corny but I shed a tear. I must say that Zombie's style is brilliant.The emotions this movie makes you feel are all over the chart. I hated the cop as he tortured the Rejects, and the ice cream scene was down right wholesome. Well, except for the language. I saw the Rejects in a whole new light as they joked with each other like they were the sadistic southern version of the Brady Bunch. The way Spaulding tried to protect Baby in the torture scene made forget all the brutal murders and feel sorry for the Rejects. As I left the theater I honestly felt like a new man, and really thought about the movie. Whether Zombie meant for this movie to make you rethink your views on people like the Rejects or not, it really did.