The highly anticipated (among horror fans, that is) follow up to Rob Zombie’s “House of 1,000 Corpses” is one of the biggest stinkers to be released upon us in a while. The film is one elongated, helluva mess with lots of violence, female nudity and gratuitous dialogue. Now, you gotta understand that “House” isn’t a great movie either, but it had this warped fun-house vibe to it that made the movie pretty enjoyable. “Rejects” just plods along with scenes that last too long, scenes that have no point (let’s buy chickens!) and violence that never creates any tension or thrills. Honestly, who wants to see Priscilla Barnes being torture while in her undies? I sure didn’t. A lot of reviews have been comparing “Rejects” to the likes of horror masterpieces “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Last House on the Left.” These are very flawed comparisons. None of the great 70’s films told the story with the killers as the sympathetic main characters. And, that is what Zombie wants. He wants us to feel sorry for the Firefly family. He even goes so far as to put some “warm and fuzzy” home movie footage near the end to try and make us go “awwwww, look they love each other so they don’t deserve to die.” Bah. It’s a bad mess of a movie that can be skipped. Rent “House of 1,000 Corpses” instead.~
Well, you had a higher opinion of House than I. I actually fell asleep during it, which told me not even to try to see this one. And if you hate it, it sucks.
hate to disagree with you chas, but i just came back from seeing “rejects” and i really liked it. i think it’s gonna be one of those flicks that divides horror fans. although i agree about some of the needless sidetrack scenes (chickens, tutti-fuckin’-frutti), i loved that it took its horror seriously, and it was the most successful 70s throwback that i’ve seen yet.
now… can’t wait to see that unrated ‘high tension’ dvd. of course, we’re still waiting for the august theatrical release here in canada…
dont dis my man rob he is awsome at so many things.. i find how he makes movie very interesting and i will buy every movie of his…and even though this is not the same movie or anything back off be4 i becum jigsaw3
i liked the devils rejects. I liked how it could be humurous and semi scary at the same time. and the tutti fucking fruity part was awsome. im sry i dont care how immature i sound. it was awsome. but yea i dont really think Zombie was trying to make us feel sorry for them. i think even he knows that ppl like the firefly family arent exactly good ppl. but yea i respect ur opinion and al but im just sayin.
p.s.
ROB ZOMBIE RULLEZZZ!