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Randal666

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Rob Zombie made the best that he can, that is great horror. I'll never forget that feelings in the cinema

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Posted nov 15, 2008 6:21 am pt

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"Rob Zombie's finest moment."

While I enjoyed Rob Zombie's music on certain levels, I never believed his skills at film-making could quite equal it. 'House of 1000 Corpses' I found to be a reasonably well-written but...
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"Rob Zombie's finest moment."

While I enjoyed Rob Zombie's music on certain levels, I never believed his skills at film-making could quite equal it. 'House of 1000 Corpses' I found to be a reasonably well-written but surprisingly insipid exercise in grisly horror, and thought that 'Halloween' was a powerful film that ultimately lost sight of what it was leading on to and thought that on the whole a better remake of 'Halloween' could have been made. These two films I saw well before I had even heard of this film, and you know what, this film is twice as good as those two put together. It's the film that showcases Zombie's directorial talents more than either of those other films; it's not just a brutal exercise in exploitation, it's a well-made terror movie that leaves us sympathizing for the bad guys. These characters, however disgusting, depraved and horrible they may be, are 3-dimensional characters.

Not quite a perfect film, but it is the film to see first if you're looking to get into Rob's directorial work. 'The Devil's Rejects' is utterly sick, vile and depraved on many levels, but it's made with enough artistic intent to be fully redeemed.

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Posted sep 14, 2008 1:21 pm pt

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One of the best movies I have ever seen. The only thing I don't like is that the story ended and that means it was that good. Rob Zombies style has improved ten fold in his writing, direction and caracter development from house of 1000 corpses to...
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One of the best movies I have ever seen. The only thing I don't like is that the story ended and that means it was that good. Rob Zombies style has improved ten fold in his writing, direction and caracter development from house of 1000 corpses to Halloween has been some advancement and achievement. I hope he makes many more movies because I have never enjoyed watching caracters in movies more than when watching his. I mean as bad, evil and disgusting they were, I still kinda felt bad when the Devils Rejects were killed. Does that make me sick? Yes, but who cares? I don't! Rob Zombie kicks butt!!

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Posted jul 10, 2008 4:08 am pt

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An awesome movie Rob zombie is a great film maker and musician and I can't wait to see what he does next plus I loved the use of Captain Spaulding as a bigger part of the plot in this one.

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Posted jun 5, 2008 4:46 am pt

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Rob Zombie, a great musician and a director brought up watching classic horrors and has the perfect view on todays movies. Rob brings a true meaning to HORROR. Devil's Rejects has a great story, and Rob is that much of a good director, that he...
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Rob Zombie, a great musician and a director brought up watching classic horrors and has the perfect view on todays movies. Rob brings a true meaning to HORROR. Devil's Rejects has a great story, and Rob is that much of a good director, that he makes you love the bad guys so much, that you'd hate to see them get killed, even without you realising. For those who hate this film, stick with your 'I know that you did last summer' because this is probably too intense for you.

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Posted jun 1, 2008 6:51 am pt

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Rob Zombie is a total genius I love all of his movies and will watch and enjoy every movie he makes this movie is just so awesome, the graphics and the plots are always so intense.

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Posted feb 22, 2008 12:33 pm pt

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Not as bad as House of 1000 Corpses.. but unoriginal red-neck remake of Last House on the Left only not as brutal and lacking the "darkness under the surface of suburbia" theme of Last House... but the final scene with...
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Not as bad as House of 1000 Corpses.. but unoriginal red-neck remake of Last House on the Left only not as brutal and lacking the "darkness under the surface of suburbia" theme of Last House... but the final scene with "Free-Bird" in the background is pretty good.

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Posted oct 18, 2007 3:04 am pt

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Superp sequel to '1000 Corpses'. Even harder, nastier and a tad more realistic than the former. If I was to state that this was right up there with the original 'Chainsaw Massacre' you might think I was as deranged as one of the film's many...
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Superp sequel to '1000 Corpses'. Even harder, nastier and a tad more realistic than the former. If I was to state that this was right up there with the original 'Chainsaw Massacre' you might think I was as deranged as one of the film's many degenerate Characters but at times matches the very finest. No horror from the US in recent years comes even close. Utterly uncompromising, totally incomprable. Tutti frutti!

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Posted oct 7, 2007 4:31 am pt

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House of a 1000 corpses was just an okay movie. But the devil's rejects is one of the best horror films ever. Great performances by all the cast, a great story that pulls you in & an awesome 70's southern rock soundtrack

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Posted sep 9, 2007 3:22 am pt

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This movie is a great film because it has everything the great horrors of the 1970's had and more.Rob Zombies style is very Quentin Tarantino like which should make him a very big name in the movie business.The three main characters are all very...
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This movie is a great film because it has everything the great horrors of the 1970's had and more.Rob Zombies style is very Quentin Tarantino like which should make him a very big name in the movie business.The three main characters are all very violent,very maniacal,and very clichéd.You have the three psychotic killers,the hero cop with a taste for vengeance,and all the normal clichés of 1970's slashers.Which is why it's so great.The film is much like Bonnie and Clyde of the 1960's and has a lot of similarities to films like Texas Chainsaw,and Killing Zoe.The dialogue is totally Quentin Tarantino style as are all the murder scenes.The greatest thing about this though is that it's at the same time very original in story and also in outcomes.Well done Rob Zombie and good luck in the future.

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Posted jul 25, 2007 8:54 am pt

• [+] New York Post
  
  88
  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.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  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.

  by Michael Rechtshaffen | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  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.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  For the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
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  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)

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  78
  The year's most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n'-wreckage-romance.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  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.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
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  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.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
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  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.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
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  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.

  by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
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  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.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  A blood-smeared and almost completely scurrilous love letter to anyone who ever appeared in the junk movies of the '60s through '80s.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  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.

  by Jeremy Knox | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  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.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »