| | | Written and Directed by Rob Zombie.
Features: Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish
From the visionary mind of acclaimed musician Rob Zombie comes Lions Gate Films The Devil's Rejects, the gritty, violent follow-up to Zombie s smash horror hit House of 1,000 Corpses. Written and directed by Zombie, The Devil's Rejects reunites the homicidal members of the Firefly family, tracing their bloody flight from an outlaw sheriff hell-bent on revenge.System Requirements:Run Time: 109 minsFormat: BLU-RAY DISC
"Ferocious!" Dennis Dermody, Paper
"For the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music." Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
"Two thumbs up." Ebert & Roeper
"Superbly well-made..." Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
"...delights in offending the offendable...a whitesploitation classic, from its menacing sideburns to its demented laughter." Kyle Smith, New York Post
"The year's most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n'-wreckage-romance." Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
"...plays like "Bonnie & Clyde" as made by a committee comprised of George Romero, Sam Peckinpah, Tobe Hooper, Sergio Leone and John Waters..." Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
Editor's Note
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 everyone they come in contact with. When Sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe) pays a visit to the body-ridden lair of Mother Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook, taking over the role played by Karen Black in the first film), her children Otis (Bill Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) are forced to run, eventually holing up in a roadside motel with four hostages (including Clint Eastwood regular Geoffrey Lewis and THREE'S COMPANY star Priscilla Barnes). Seeking help from creepy clown Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), they continue their murderous rampage while being tracked by Wydell, who is hellbent on avenging the death of his brother, which came at the hands of this very weird and dangerous family. As Wydell tortures Mother Firefly for answers, Otis and Baby torture their hostages for kicks. Zombie, a heavy metal musician who leads the group White Zombie, infuses his exciting, funny, and terrifying gorefest with a fabulous 1970s soundtrack, using such songs as Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" and David Essex's "Rock On" at inappropriately riotous moments. Part BONNIE AND CLYDE, part THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, part THE WILD BUNCH, Zombie's bloody barrage is filled with unexpected plot twists and surprises unique to this genre.
| Features | Actor Audio Commentary With Sid Haig, Bill Moseley & Sheri Moon Zombie | | Audio Commentary With Director Rob Zombie | | Audio: English DTS HD 5.1 Surround Sound, DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted Scenes | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 1/8/2008 |
| Running Time: 109 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 19507 | | UPC: 00031398195078 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"[L]oaded with filmmaking energy....You'll get creeped out big time..." 08/11/2005 p.82Uncut
"[A]n experiment in extreme anti-hero worship....Disturbing." 09/01/2005 p.140 Rolling Stone
Ranked #20 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "Scuz has never looked this defiantly appealing on DVD." 12/01/2005 p.98 Reel.com 9 of 10
What gives with people's low opinions of Rob Zombie's follow-up to his muddled 2003 debut, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects?...Many of the critics, who gushed (deservedly) over Tarantino's Kill Bill, bashed this film. The L.A. Times called it a "crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics"...And the internet site Reelviews.com (no relation to Reel.com) stated, "The 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." Ouch...The Devil's Rejects may be an underappreciated film for critics, but not for Lion's Gate. One of many extremely profitable films of 2005 for the studio (the theatrical box office alone surpassed the production cost by three times), they went all out for this film on home video. While the extras may not be as noteworthy as this reviewer and fan wanted, the sound and transfer are fantastic, and the unrated version of the film is the most extra-special feature of all. - James Emanuel Shapiro
FilmCritic.com 8 of 10
House of 1000 Corpses, the last song on Rob Zombie's 2001 album The Sinister Urge, also served as the title track to the metal frontman-turned-filmmaker's 2003 directorial debut, but the cut's country twang-inflected ghoulishness would have made a more apt musical accompaniment for Zombie's The Devil's Rejects. Less a sequel than a spiritual follow-up, the director's latest revisits House's serial-killing Firefly clan as they're cast into the backwater dustbowls of rural America...A gritty Western-via-grindhouse modern exploitation flick imbued with the ferocity of independent '70s horror, Zombie's splatterfest wisely alters virtually everything (narratively, stylistically, thematically) that characterized his campy, cartoonish and awkward first film. And from its coarse, graphic visual aesthetic, profusion of classic Southern rock tunes, and portrait of unrepentant mayhem, his film reverentially exults in the deranged spirit and impulsive, unpredictable energy of seminal genre masterpieces The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. - Nicholas Schager
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