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Devil's Rejects, The
Lions Gate Films Inc.
FILM:
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
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Crime
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Horror
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rob Zombie (also characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Rob Zombie
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 8, 2005
Video: November 8, 2005
Theatrical: July 22, 2005
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| 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...
88
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.

80
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.

80
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.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
For the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music.

80
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)

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The year's most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n'-wreckage-romance.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

70
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.

70
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.

63
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.

60
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.

60
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.

60
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.

58
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.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
Completely unhinged, a garish and gonzo walk on the wild side.

50
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.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
A little of this will go a long way.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A canny but hollow pastiche.

50
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."

50
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.

40
Empire
Kim Newman
It’s uncomfortably the work of someone who thinks mass murder is cool and has no feeling for regular humans.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
This film is lean, tight and irredeemably vile. People are gonna love it.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics.

38
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.

30
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.

30
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.

25
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A pastiche of sadistic horror-movie cliches with minor traces of wit but major overflows of perversity.

12
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This is a vile and reprehensible motion picture.

0
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Evil isn't this boring.


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