7/10
Rob Zombie's salute to slasher grindhouse flicks leaves something more to be desired; somewhere Groucho Marx is spinning in his grave
25 July 2005
THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (2005) **1/2 Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, Leslie Easterbrook, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Barnes, Kate Norby, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo, Diamond Dallas Page, Elizabeth Daily, Tom Towles, Michael Berryman, P.J. Soles, Ginger Lynn Allen, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Mary Woronov, Daniel Roebuck, Robert Trebor. Madman Rob Zombie's sordid sequel-of-sorts to his drive-in horror fest valentine to the '70s slasher flicks "House of 1,000 Corpses" showcases the definitely demented homicidal "Firefly" family (all the characters are inexplicably – well except for one attempted sequence anyway – named after Groucho Marx cinematic aliases) ensuing a trail of dead bodies, carnage and a nightmarish hellzapoppin existence while vengeance seeking sheriff Forsythe (in full gritty resolve) is out to settle a personal score for his slain sibling Towles. Giddy pleasure in playing name that iconic '70s guest star (Hey isn't that the chick from "Too Close For Comfort"?! and "Hey, check it out , it's the ghoul from "The Hills Have Eyes" !) Grotesque and ugly (in every sense of the words) with some truly unsettling sequences that get under the skin scores some genuine ick quotient squirrelly behavior and gut-wrenching violence yet the in cohesive plotting (I know, why nitpick a grindhouse fright fest right?!) and grandiose ending with "Freebird" scored by Sam Peckinpah gives one to wonder what Senor Zombie would truly do if he had a real screenplay than the one he summoned from this dark soul?
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