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4/10/2016

The Devil's Rejects (2005) - Zombie's crazy serial killer Americana

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+ Craziest Movie of the Year

One of the more (appropriately) ludicrous posters for Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects

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The sheriff of a small Texas town raids the corpse-littered home of an infamous family, but the three main suspects flee, and a bloody chase commences.

The Devil's Rejects is the follow-up to writer-director Rob Zombie's (The Lords of Salem (2012)) horror hit House of 1000 Corpses (2003). It is a brutal cocktail with a plot that lies in the slipstream of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Helter Skelter (1976, TV movie). The Devil's Rejects seems to be genuinely thrilled with these types of ultra-psychopaths, which is obviously too upsetting for a lot of people to enjoy.
At the same time the film's style pays homage to 1970s exploitation cinema with slow-mo sequences and other gimmicks, SPOILER and the shoot-em-up ending (to Lynyrd Skynard's Freebird), which is outlaw romance in the vein of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Audiences who are unaware of these cultural origins may just think Rejects a gruesome picture, (which it also is.)
Horror fans will also delight in its featuring legendary horror stars like Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead (1978)) and Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes (1977)). Of the actors' performances overall, Kate Norby (The Mentalist (2011), TV-series) as victim Wendy and William Forsythe (Southern Gothic (2007)) as the sheriff should be singled out.
Like other Zombie films, Rejects features excessive swearing. All in all it is an okay and pretty crazy movie.

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In lieu of a trailer for the film, not currently on Youtube, here's a tutorial to create Rob Zombie's makeup, which he wears when he is touring with his heavy metal band White Zombie

Cost: 7 mil. $
Box office: 19.3 mil. $
= Box office success
[The Devil's Rejects was released July 22 and runs 109 minutes. The film was submitted 8 times for rating to the MPAA, who, according to Zombie, had a problem with the film's overall tone, before an R-rating was secured, after two minutes were cut from the film, (which are reinserted in the DVD version.) Rejects ended up more successful than 1000 Corpses, SPOILER but to distributor Lionsgate's detriment, Zombie killed off the main characters in the film's end, and made a point of rejecting any talk of another sequel. Rejects opened #8 to a 7 mil. $ opening weekend in North America, where it grossed 17 mil. $ (88.1 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets for it were the UK with 1.5 mil. $ (7.8 %) and Italy with 1.1 mil. $ (5.7 %). The Devil's Rejects is rotten at 53 % with a 5.4 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

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