"The Devil's Rejects" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Tapout]

A Tale Of Murder, Mayhem and Revenge

Release Date: July 22, 2005
Studio: Lion's Gate Films
Director: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe

Plot Summary: The state police raid the Firefly family house, but they have already escaped. Otis, Baby, and Captain Spaulding go on a killing spree across the country.

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[Tapout]

Oh. My. God. Batman Begins and Sin City have just been destroyed. The Devil's Rejects is easily the best movie I've seen this year, and may very well be my new favorite ever ever ever. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed every last second of a movie. Rob Zombie just gets it - he knows what fans want and delivers.

[Wounded_Dragon]

Not for me. I laughed maybe 10 percent of the time and spent the rest trying to not fall asleep.

[Enrique]

I was surprisingly entertained by TDR. And I was further surprised during the first half at how well and stylized Rob Zombie can make a movie. Unfortunately, the first half segues into a second half that's just a notch above your average slasher movie.

[Hades]

I to found this movie very enjoyable. It was nice how it started off being the next day or so after the first movie and continued from there.

I'm going to give it 3 and a half stars.

[John6777]

I loved this movie. Not only did it blow the first movie out of the water. But Zombie actually got alot better at directing. Also the way the plot made the killers into victims was amazing. 5 stars for me. Prolly the best movie i saw this summer.

[Wounded_Dragon]

Was this some kind of dark comedy or what? The parts I wasn't bored with seemed more humorous than scary.

[sdp]

Definite spoilers below but I don't spoil the ending.

I ended up seeing the first showing yesterday at 12:15 with a friend who wasn't able to see the pre-arranged night show at 10:30. Saw it again that night but there was a brouhaha with some friends of mine and some *******s who were talking during the movie so we walked out at the 45 minute mark, got free passes and went to see it again today at 12:15 once again.

That said, as expected, I was in love with the film. It seems to be getting mixed reviews; the St. Paul paper gave it 3-and-a-half stars out of 4. Other papers possibly less. In any case, Rob's directing style had definitely improved. He seemed to take the criticisms from the first movie and change them around to make the second an even better one. There are no 15-second music video insertions, no annoying Baby laughs and you find the characters to be much more in depth. For example, in House, you don't quite get who Captain Spaulding is. You know he's a silly guy who, when threatened, is the most serious of the serious. In this film, you get to see the guy for who he really is and what he has done. Their killing/torture is like a drug; when they go to the motel, why do they torture the band and their wives? They just DO. They could have found another place to hide out for the time being but it was just a 'fun' adventure for them. Otis was amazing... after you see the movie, try and picture Bill Mosely as just an actor. That he goes through his life doing everyday ****. It's difficult to because you see him AS Otis. I wish there was a little more of Michael Berryman in there [the guy who worked for Charlie Altamont at the Frontiertown] and there should have been some sort of conclusion for The Unholy Two. But those are minor complaints.

The story itself is much more involving. House, as much as I loved it, didn't have much of a plot to it. It was like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre where the plot was... inspiration? You can see how they were inspired by different sources and those came through effectively [Ed Gein for example] but the story is kind of randomly tossed together. In this film, there is a definite progression of events that allows you to flip-flop your mind as to who you're really rooting for here. You actually get a movie that is original. There are references here and there but the closest thing that would come to it would be the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. And even still.

I am surprised the amount of everything that they were allowed to have in the film. Sure, Rob had to pass it by the MPAA 8 times or so but you see guts splayed out on the road, nails being hammered into hands, a pseudo-gun-masturbation-scene and so forth. It's good that he was able to get away with more than he could with the first film. And the scene where the woman is wearing the face and running through the desert... my god that was even better than what I imagined.

Specific scenes that I loved: The beginning of the film when Baby and Otis make the getaway during 'Midnight Rider': wading through the water, running in the field, hopping in the car. And all the cheerleaders in cages in the basement. Fantastic.

When The Unholy Two arrive at Charlie's place and it is set to Terry Reid's 'To Be Treated' with no other sound effects and splashes of color. Beautiful.

The torture of the Rejects and the sheriff's growing madness. It's a definite turning point in the film and it was just.... bizarre... to see the three being treated in such a way. You got to see a side of them that you never did in the first movie.

That brings me to the ending. I have never quite seen an ending like that. I'm not going to give too much away but my ****ing god... I'd sit through the movie again just to see that. There could not have been a better possible ending for those characters and I will never ever ever hear Freebird the same way again. It's one of those movies where if I were a woman [sorry] or didn't have any control, I would have burst into tears. Quiet. It's great. It's no coincidence that most of my favorite scenes were set to music... it was used in such a way that was just... perfect.

[W1CK3D]

I need to go and see this movie, I really liked House of 1000 Corpses due to the hillarious carnage and gore in that movie.

[King_of_doom]

I hope to see it in Friday.

[Punisher]

Death walks behind. Hell waits ahead.

"I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work."-Otis B. Driftwood

Release Date: July 22, 2005
Director: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Monn Zombie, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, Leslie Easterbrook, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Barnes, Kate Norby, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo, and Diamon Dallas Page.

Plot Summary(IMDb): In Ruggsville, Texas, the police under the command of Sheriff John Quincy Wydell attack the house of the sadistic serial killers Firefly family (a.k.a. The Devil's Reject) and they arrest mother Firefly, but Otis B. Driftwood and Baby Firefly escape from the siege. Tiny is wandering nearby the house and also escapes. Otis and Baby call their patriarch, the mad clown Captain Spaulding and they schedule to reunite at an isolated motel in the desert. When Otis and Baby arrive, they kidnap two families of singers, using sadism and violence against the harmless persons. Meanwhile, Sheriff Wydell promises to capture and kill the runaways, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, the Deputy George Wydell.

Thoughts? Wow is pretty much all I have to say. I just recently rented this out of curiosity, having never seen House of 1000 Corpses, but it was a great decision. I expected just a typical slasher film, but this is so much more. It's brutal, unrelentless, and one of the few films(well actually, probably the only film) where one can sympathize with a person who just cut the face off a man and made his wife wear it. The character deveolpment was fantastic, I loved seeing the Sheriff slowly lose it over the course of the movie, even when he began to torture the Rejects, I was still rooting for him, because they were getting exactly what they deserved. The sheriff dying was extremely predictbale(and very disappointing I might add), but thankfully Zombie didn't choose to end the movie there. And to top things off, the music really fits the movie, I'm no fan of country and find "Freebird" extremely overrated, but it fits TDR perfectly. Overrall, this is a great movie that any horror fan should get around to viewing. Didn't see a talkback thread for it so I decided to do the right thing.

[The Penguin]

Please be sure to check the Movie Talkback Thread Collection before posting a new topic, we already had one for this movie. So merged.

[Hades]

Please be sure to check the Movie Talkback Thread Collection before posting a new topic, we already had one for this movie. So merged.

Uh, I really don't mean to be rude, but the original topic is over 2 years ago. I know I would not even think about looking something like this up for a movie that long ago.

[Hanshotfirst113]

Oh. My. God. Batman Begins and Sin City have just been destroyed. The Devil's Rejects is easily the best movie I've seen this year, and may very well be my new favorite ever ever ever. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed every last second of a movie. Rob Zombie just gets it - he knows what fans want and delivers.

Isn't enjoyed a relative term when talking about a film about murder and sadism ?

[The Penguin]

Uh, I really don't mean to be rude, but the original topic is over 2 years ago. I know I would not even think about looking something like this up for a movie that long ago.

I don't think you're being rude and I wasn't either. The Movie Talkback Thread Collection has existed at the top of this board since 2003 with every movie talkback posted on this board archived. The threads are made timeless in some respects in that they are easily accessible. This movie already had a thread so we put it together. Simple explanation followed by encouragement to check out a feature I am both proud of and feel is useful.

[Punisher]

I don't think you're being rude and I wasn't either. The Movie Talkback Thread Collection has existed at the top of this board since 2003 with every movie talkback posted on this board archived. The threads are made timeless in some respects in that they are easily accessible. This movie already had a thread so we put it together. Simple explanation followed by encouragement to check out a feature I am both proud of and feel is useful.

Well, I did the whole ctrl F thing and typed out Devils Rejects and it didnt come up with anything in the talkback collection. My bad.

Probably because I didn't put in the ' in Reject's when I searched...