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The Devil's Rejects | |
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Directed by | Rob Zombie |
Written by | Rob Zombie |
Produced by | Rob Zombie Mike Elliott Michael Ohoven |
Starring | Sid Haig Bill Moseley Sheri Moon William Forsythe |
Cinematography | Phil Parmet |
Edited by | Glenn W. Garland |
Music by | Tyler Bates Terry Reid Rob Zombie |
Distributed by | Lions Gate Films Maple Pictures |
Release dates | July 22, 2005 |
Running time | 109 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $7,000,000 |
Box office | $19,390,029 |
The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie. It is the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. The movie is about the family of killers from the previous film on the run.
Plot
Six months after the events in House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Sheriff John Quincy Wydell and a large posse of State Troopers begin a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for over seventy homicides and disappearances that they have caused over the previous several years. Tiny is missing, Rufus is killed and Mother Firefly is taken into custody. However, two of the most dangerous family members (Otis B. Driftwood and Baby) escape.
The duo seek refuge at a run-down motel, where they torture and murder the five members of Banjo and Sullivan, a traveling country band. They then meet up with Baby's father, Captain Spaulding.
Meanwhile, Wydell slowly begins to lose his sanity, when during his attempt to interrogate Mother Firefly for the whereabouts with her kin, she reveals that she murdered his brother George (an event that occurred in the first film). Later, after having dreams of his brother urging him to avenge him, Wydell stabs Mother Firefly to death.
The surviving Fireflys gather at a whorehouse owned by Captain Spaulding's brother (by adoption), Charlie Altamont, where he offers them shelter from the police. After leaving the whorehouse to purchase some chickens, Charlie is threatened at gunpoint by Wydell to give up the Fireflys. With the help of a pair of amoral bounty hunters known as the "Unholy Two", the sheriff takes the family back to the Firefly house where he delights in torturing them in ways similar to the methods they used on their own victims. He nails Otis's hands to his chair and staples a crime scene photograph of victim Mary Knowles to Baby's chest, as well as taunting her about the death of her mother.
He lights the house on fire and leaves Otis and Spaulding to burn while taking Baby outside to murder her. Charlie Altamont returns to save the Firefly family, but is brutally axed by Wydell. It is only the last minute intervention of Tiny that saves the Firefly family; the giant returns and snaps Wydell's neck. The Rejects are saved and share a brief tearful reunion. Tiny decides to go back into the burning house to die alone and Otis, Baby, and Spaulding escape in Charlie's car.
The film's final scene has the trio driving into the middle of a police barricade, with no sound heard except Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird. As the tempo of the last portion of the song increases, they grab their guns and go forward in a final blaze of glory, being shot to death by the police.
Cast
Actor | Role |
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Sid Haig | Captain Spaulding |
Bill Moseley | Otis B. Driftwood |
Sheri Moon Zombie | Baby Firefly |
Tyler Mane | Rufus |
William Forsythe | Sheriff John Quincey Wydell |
Ken Foree | Charlie Altamont |
Matthew McGrory | Tiny Firefly |
Leslie Easterbrook | Mother Firefly |
Dave Sheridan | Officer Ray Dobson |
E. G. Daily | Candy |
Michael Berryman | Clevon |
Danny Trejo | Rondo |
Diamond Dallas Page | Billy Ray Snapper |
Brian Posehn | Jimmy |
Kate Norby | Wendy Banjo |
Priscilla Barnes | Gloria Sullivan |
Lew Temple | Adam Banjo |
Geoffrey Lewis | Roy Sullivan |
Tom Towles | George Wydell |
P. J. Soles | Susan |
Deborah Van Valkenburgh | Casey |
Ginger Lynn Allen | Fanny |
Chris Ellis | Coggs |
Mary Woronov | Abbie |
Daniel Roebuck | Morris Green |
Duane Whitaker | Dr. Bankhead |
Glenn Taranto | Anchorman |
Steve Railsback | Sheriff Ken Dwyer (uncredited) |
Production
When Rob Zombie wrote House of 1000 Corpses, he had a "vague idea for a story" about the brother of the sheriff that the Firefly clan killed coming back for revenge.[1] He did this in case the film was successful enough that there would be interest in another film. After Lions Gate Entertainment made back all of their money on the first day of Corpses theatrical release, they wanted Zombie to make another movie and he started to seriously think about a new story.[1] With Rejects, Zombie has said that he wanted to make it "more horrific" and the characters less cartoonish than in Corpses,[1] and that he wanted "to make something that was almost like a violent western. Sort of like a road movie."[2] He has also cited films like The Wild Bunch, Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands as influences on Rejects. When he approached William Forsythe about doing the film, he told the actor that the inspiration for how to portray his character came from actors like Lee Marvin and Robert Shaw.[2] Sheri Moon Zombie does not see the film as a sequel: "It's more like some of the characters from House of 1000 Corpses came on over, and now they're the Devil's Rejects."[3]
Zombie hired Phil Parmet, who had shot the legendary documentary Harlan County USA because he wanted to adopt a hand-held camera/documentary look.[2] Principal photography was emotionally draining for some of the actors. Sheri Moon Zombie remembers a scene she had to do with Forsythe that required her to cry. The scene took two to three hours to film and affected her so much that she did not come into work for two days afterward.[2]
Rejects went through the MPAA eight times earning an NC-17 rating every time until the last one.[4] According to Zombie, the censors had a problem with the overall tone of the film, specifically, they did not like the motel scene between Bill Moseley and Priscilla Barnes and so Zombie cut two minutes from it but restored them on the DVD version.[4]
Awards
- Spike TV Scream Awards:
- Won: Best Horror Film
- Won: Most Vile Villain (for the Firefly Clan)
- Nominated: The Ultimate Scream
- Fangoria Chainsaw Awards:
- Won: Killer Movie
- Won: Relationship from Hell (for Otis B. Driftwood and Baby Firefly)
- Nominated: Best Butcher (Villain) (Sid Haig)
- # 7 on Bravo TV's 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments
Response
The Devil's Rejects was financially successful, recouping its roughly $7 million budget during its opening weekend, and going on to earn over $16 million.[5]
Robert K. Elder, of the Chicago Tribune, disliked the movie, writing "[D]espite decades of soaking in bloody classics such as the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Spit On Your Grave, Zombie didn't absorb any of the underlying social tension or heart in those films. He's no collage artist of influences, like Quentin Tarantino, crafting his movie from childhood influences. "Rejects" plays more like a junkyard of homages, strewn together and lost among inept cops, gaping plot holes and buzzard-ready dialog".[6]
Other reviewers, such as prominent critic Roger Ebert, enjoyed the film. Ebert gave the film three out of a possible four stars. He wrote, "There is actually some good writing and acting going on here, if you can step back from the material enough to see it."[7] Later, in his review for the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, he referenced The Devil's Rejects, saying, "I received some appalled feedback when I praised Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, but I admired two things about it: (1) It desired to entertain and not merely to sicken, and (2) its depraved killers were individuals with personalities, histories and motives."[8]
Horror movie website Dreadcentral.com gave the film a five out of five stars, saying, "As each frame passes by, it is apparent how much Rob Zombie has grown as a filmmaker even after just two films", and referred to the performances as "nothing short of amazing."[9]
References
- ^ a b c Tobias, Scott (August 2, 2005). "Rob Zombie". The Onion A.V. Club.
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- ^ Movie review: 'The Devil's Rejects' - Metromix Chicago Movies
- ^ Ebert, Roger; "The Devil's Rejects"; rogerebert.suntimes.com; July 22, 2005
- ^ Ebert, Roger; "The Hills Have Eyes"; rogerebert.suntimes.com; March 10, 2006.
- ^ Review of The Devil's Rejects at dreadcentral.com
External links and sources
- Official website
- The Devil's Rejects at IMDb
- Reviews for The Devil's Rejects movie