Indefensible on a moral level, Rob Zombie's perversely watchable follow-up to his much-reviled cult hit House of 1000 Corpses is loaded with filmmaking energy.
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07/28/05
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:13
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Zombie has improved as a filmmaker since "House of 1000 Corpses" and will please fans of the genre, but beware -- the horror is nasty, relentless, and sadistic.
Theatrical Release:Jul 22, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $16,901,126
Synopsis: The follow-up to his 2003 horror hit HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, Rob Zombie's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS continues the story of a bizarre group of very odd people who like to torture, maim, and kill virtually... [More]
Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Ken Foree
Director: Rob Zombie
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Reviews for The Devil's Rejects
Top CriticIt has to be the sickest, the most twisted, the most deranged movie so far this year. And I'm giving it thumbs up because it's very good at what it wants to be.
07/25/05
Top CriticThe movie turns quickly into a somewhat clumsily handled chase structure, with no clear point or end.
07/22/05
Top CriticIf one is hip to the references (and, proudly or not, I am), it's amazing to see how precisely the metal-punk- turned-moviemaker Zombie channels the gleefully nihilistic tone and even the low-budget bleached-out quality of his disreputable inspirations.
07/22/05
Top CriticThe first 15 minutes and last half hour are terrific, and the stunningly violent middle part is only a partial waste.
07/22/05
Top CriticThe Devil's Rejects doesn't just deserve to be rejected, but to be buried in a hole so dank that no one will discover it.
07/22/05
Top CriticZombie looks beyond the horror genre for influence and creates a film that doesn't exactly shatter expectations but at least sidesteps them with some degree of verve.
07/22/05
Top CriticDespite its nearly nonstop torrent of gore, The Devil's Rejects is not really a horror film. It's a compendium of tributes and references to horror films of the past.
07/22/05
Top CriticThis is a perfect B-movie, full of wicked dread.
07/22/05
Top CriticThe movie features some of the ugliest people and most disgusting behavior this side of I Spit on Your Grave.
07/22/05
Top CriticIf we're supposed to hang out with these creeps in order, eventually, to like them, well, we don't.
07/22/05
Top CriticRob Zombie proves he's a filmmaker to be taken seriously -- or at least not to be considered a total joke -- but he still hasn't figured out how to fashion something more than the sum of his enthusiasms.
07/22/05
Top CriticCrass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics.
07/21/05
Top CriticA little of this will go a long way, and besides, who wants to see someone torturing Three's Company's Priscilla Barnes in a roach motel?
07/21/05
Top CriticFor the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music.
07/21/05
Top CriticIrredeemable trash, plain and simple, gratuitously violent and sadistic and aimed at people who derive entertainment from watching other human beings suffer.
07/21/05
Top CriticIt is possible to be repulsed by The Devil's Rejects while acknowledging it as an effective, high-quality piece of work.
07/21/05
Top CriticA kind of heedless zeal transforms its horrors. The movie is not merely disgusting, but has an attitude and a subversive sense of humor.
07/21/05
Top CriticThere is no anchor to this madness. The authorities are just as psychotic and sadistic as the villains. Everyone on TV is a polyester buffoon.
07/21/05
Top CriticThe salt-baked, smoke-cured dialogue makes up for a lot, especially as it's delivered by such canny veterans as Lewis, Haig and Forsythe, who's savoring his meaty caricature of a bent lawman.
07/21/05
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