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From the visionary mind of acclaimed musician Rob Zombie comes Lion's Gate Films' The Devil's Rejects, the gritty follow-up to Zombie's smash horror hit, House of 1000 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...
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"Ferocious!" Dennis Dermody, Paper
"Superbly well-made/" Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
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 | DVD Picture Quality | | Full Length Movie | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 11/8/2005 |
| Running Time: 109 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 18543 | | UPC: 00031398185437 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
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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 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 1 of 10
When a movie is this bad, it's hard to adequately describe its awfulness in words. The temptation exists to write something along the lines of: "Something this horrible has to be seen to be believed." Of course, that kind of advice would lead to e-mail death threats and other assorted nasty comments from those who spend money on The Devil's Rejects. And I'm sure AMC won't be making the same rebate offer they made for Cinderella Man. The reason is understandable: about 95% of their customers would be demanding their money back. As for the other 5%...it is said that Rob Zombie is an acquired taste (as his awful debut, House of 1000 Corpses indicated). If that's the case, then I hope it's not contagious and I don't become infected. This is a vile and reprehensible motion picture. Critic Scott Weinberg, with whom I endured the screening, made the following comment when it was over: "I have to go home and take a shower to wash away the filth." Amen. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
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. If on the other hand you close your eyes if a scene gets icky, here is a movie to see with blinders on, because it starts at icky and descends relentlessly through depraved and nauseating to the embrace of road kill. - Roger Ebert
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