It’s a Rob Zombie movie through-and-through. Even one of the main characters looks EXACTLY like him. If that’s not intentional, I don’t know if coincidence does this any justice. But a more pressing issue is at hand: A Things I Fear Movie Review for The Devil’s Rejects movie in the only way I know how.
So this is the sequel to House of 1000 Corpses. The movie starts off with a really tall guy dragging a woman across a somewhat wooded area. He kind of looks like a cross between Sloth from The Goonies and Freddy. It’s a tough look to pull off. So then a house is surrounded by the police and a shootout ensues. Not-Rob Zombie and a girl escape through a secret door and then start swearing at each other while the mom tries to shoot herself in the head. Then a really creepy clown dude calls a pimp. The escaped duo attack a traveling band of mercenaries. Please note that this is the absolute worst term to describe them as.
Some more senseless violence occurs and some really bad line reading. A vengeful cop is hot on the trail of solving a murder mystery that isn’t actually a mystery at all. The imprisoned mom is as seductive as she is repulsive. More violence is introduced. Then the now trio of hoodlums look to evade the police and the recently hired army. The army consists of that one guy that is in possibly every movie ever made and another guy who looks really familiar but I can’t think of his name. I apologize if you had to read that sentence over a couple times and yet you still don’t understand. Because that makes two of us.
Anyway, so the cop gets his revenge. Kind of. He captures (SPOILER ALERT) the only other characters in the movie and then tortures them. Then he attempts to set a fire that couldn’t burn any slower if it tried. Froth (Sloth+Freddy) reappears and saves the day in a really slow, anticlimactic way. Then the movie ends in a very Thelma & Louise sort of way. It’s pretty epic.
Overall, this is another cult favourite that shouldn’t really be reviewed by the general public. What it lacks in scare it makes up for in gore and thrills; however, it still counts because the clown guy looks really creepy which is why it deserved a Devil’s Rejects Movie Review.
