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Devil's Rejects, The
Lions Gate Films Inc.


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MPAA RATING: R for sadistic violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use

Starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, Leslie Easterbrook, and Geoffrey Lewis

From the visionary mind of acclaimed musician Rob Zombie comes the follow-up to his smash hit "House of 1000 Corpses." Written and directed by Zombie, this film further explores the Dr. Satan Cult Murders by blending traditional horror elements with the Western genre to paint a shocking portrait of vigilante justice. (Lions Gates Films)

GENRE(S):	Action \| Crime \| Horror
WRITTEN BY:	Rob Zombie (also characters)
DIRECTED BY:	Rob Zombie
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 8, 2005 Video: November 8, 2005 Theatrical: July 22, 2005
RUNNING TIME:	101 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA / Germany

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

New York Post Kyle Smith

A yellow dog of a movie that delights in offending the offendable. It's also a whitesploitation classic, from its menacing sideburns to its demented laughter.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

It plays like "Bonnie & Clyde" as made by a committee comprised of George Romero, Sam Peckinpah, Tobe Hooper, Sergio Leone and John Waters -- but Zombie still manages to inject a pervasive flavor all his own.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Zombie fills The Devil's Rejects with thrilling setpieces, pays homage to his inspirations without outright ripping them off (most of the time), brings back some cult-movie icons (hello, Mary Woronov and E.G. Daily), and works in some profanely clever dialogue.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

For the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The sadism of "1,000 Corpses" is ameliorated here by the addition of an action plot and open spaces, and the comedy is more skillfully played, mingling agreeably with Zombie's ardor for southern trash culture (the final showdown plays out to the strains of "Freebird," for heaven's sake)

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The year's most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n'-wreckage-romance.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

A tough internal struggle must take place before one can come forward and admit enjoying The Devil's Rejects, a movie so fundamentally horrible that even its creator has to admit he's basically made a 101-minute snuff film.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Here is a gaudy vomitorium of a movie, violent, nauseating and really a pretty good example of its genre. If you are a hardened horror movie fan capable of appreciating skill and wit in the service of the deliberately disgusting, The Devil's Rejects may exercise a certain strange charm.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

If you're not in the mood for "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" meets "Last House on the Left," stay very far away. Horror fans will find what they're looking for, though.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

The cast is full of cool cult actors past and present, and the movie is great at what it does. It's also brutal as hell, and not everyone will have the stomach for it.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Much of Devil's Rejects is absolutely hilarious, especially the brief appearance by a Gene Shalit-like film critic who explicates all the Groucho Marx references. Zombie's eye for the faux-'70s detail is perfect.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A blood-smeared and almost completely scurrilous love letter to anyone who ever appeared in the junk movies of the '60s through '80s.

Film Threat Jeremy Knox

Zombie has a great eye and ear for the look and sound of the genre. From the over-saturated yellow desert to the sound of a newscast. He’s got it down perfect.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Rob Zombie's pitch-perfect evocation of '70s horror films about monstrous families and the unfortunates who cross their path is one of a handful of sequels that both improve on their sources and play perfectly as stand-alones.

Variety Justin Chang

If you can stomach the violence -- and despite the R rating, that's a big if -- it's hard to deny that Zombie has made exactly the movie he set out to make, guaranteed to satiate his considerable fan base and sicken just about everyone else.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Zombie doesn't pretend to be on the side of the victims. He makes no bones about his identification with the sexy outlaw serial killers.

Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand

Completely unhinged, a garish and gonzo walk on the wild side.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Surely, this bloodthirsty comic farce about a sadistic backwoods family being hunted by a sadistic backwoods sheriff is the "Citizen Kane" of hix-ploitation horror.

USA Today Mike Clark

A little of this will go a long way.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

A canny but hollow pastiche.

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

An exercise intended exclusively for fans of the genre, another crude, hard-R bloodbath from the studio that brought you "High Tension" and "Saw."

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

The Devil's Rejects is a trompe l'oeil experiment in deliberately retro filmmaking. It looks sensational, but there is a curious emptiness at its core.

Empire Kim Newman

It’s uncomfortably the work of someone who thinks mass murder is cool and has no feeling for regular humans.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

This film is lean, tight and irredeemably vile. People are gonna love it.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

While this may all sound seductively warped to those who enjoy movies featuring sexually deviant confinement and torture, blasphemous rants and rampaging rednecks, The Devil's Rejects does not live up to its sick, twisted and campy intentions. "Straw Dogs" meets "Smokey And The Bandit" for the new millennium it ain't.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

The movie's signal flaw -- that is, other than its degeneracy, its sloppiness, its love of dark things and pretty stains and arterial spray patterns -- is Moseley as the demonic Otis.

Village Voice Benjamin Strong

By rubbing your nose in this hillbilly mayhem, Zombie all but dares you to acknowledge your liberal elitism, simply because just now, in Dubya's America, you don't happen to find anything particularly funny or lovable about stupid, dangerous provincials.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

A pastiche of sadistic horror-movie cliches with minor traces of wit but major overflows of perversity.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is a vile and reprehensible motion picture.

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

Evil isn't this boring.

The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 50 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Christine M gave it a1:
No wonder Stephen King liked this - Devil´s rejects is garbage. "Mass murderers and serial killers are sooo cool!" Juvenile, ugly trash.

Robin gave it a9:
A ride into hell so perverse, violent, horrible and depraved that you can't help but love it! Rob Zombie takes it past the point of all decency, and delivers pure entertainment. If you've ever enjoyed an exploitation movie, or sided with a vicious killer, this will be a joy ride. Also has a great soundtrack that sets the mood perfectly.

Neurotic Rampage gave it a9:
This movie is a mix of sadistic violence, disturbing images, shocking events, and hilarious dialogue; all while being shoved into the 70's, an era with no cell phones, or computers. This, with the devilishly designed characters will leave you satisfied in the end. The DVD is also packed with content on 2 separate discs. There is a good 3-5 hours of extras. Worth a buy? Hell yeah. I'd recommned this movie if: - You have a dark sense of humor - Enjoyed House of 1000 corpses - Want to see a good film. Period.

Breanna gave it a10:
This is my ultime favorite movie. Rob Zombie is such a genius. Also, Sheri Moon Zombie is amazing. Otis is my personal favorite. This is a great movie for anyone who likes twisted, sick, demented things. Anyone who thinks this movie is horrible obviously doesn't know what a good horror movie is then. I could watch this movie over and over. each time you notice more and different things about it. I think everyone should give this movie a try. Either you love it or you hate it...I love it!

Riren gave it a3:
Simply an awful, rambling exploitation movie that will serve as the next step up for a generation of horror fans who are so desensitized they can't appreciate anything older than Bruce Campbell one-liners. Mostly plotless, the scenes sprawl out and bask in screaming, torture and gore without so much as a flinch of character development for a twitch of sympathy. It is unafraid to offend, but stands up for nothing as it does so. At best, it's a feature-length whining scream. At worst, it's spineless gore.

D Z gave it an8:
Rob Zombie’s jaunty film is a spectacle of prodigious emotions. The film transcends beyond themes, transcending into heavier, deeper, and complex areas of insanity. Excluding the aghast editing, and filming techniques, the director is not advocating the exploitation of violence, yet feeling, and further exploring the impact of violence. The violence displayed in the film is not frivolous, as it may appear, and with his feelings he creates a voluptuous visual poem. His poetry targets the simplicity of death, and the virulent excess of life. His usage of music surgically sows his vivid imaginations. By his direction, the actors surpass portraying caricatures, or one-dimensional cliché’s. In the Devil’s Rejects, you will reach a treasure, only if you proceed to locate a shovel, and begin excavating.

Rick F. gave it a1:
Just a trashy, revolting movie. Not even worthy of note within the horror/suspense/gore genre. Simply exploits sado-masochistic sex combined with ultra violence. Suitable only for blood lusting perverts.

Devil's Rejects, The Lions Gate Films Inc.

Devil's Rejects, The
Lions Gate Films Inc.