Review: The Devil's Rejects

[BH14]

I enjoyed HOKC but its plot was little weak and there were a little too many characters.. This movie got rid of some of the HOKC characters which was a good thing. It focused on the main characters and we got a good sense about them. There were also great death scenes, much better interesting plot and a nice twist... Much better than the original. Great twist at the end. And I dont know how much it costed to make this movie but the budget must have been doubled compared to the HOKC. Much better quality. I give it an 8.5/10. Go to the theatres for this one!

What did you think of this movie? It surpassed my expectations especially in the later half of the movie.

[Deposable]

You should hear marroe's review of the movie. hey now!

[BH14]

I thought it was good but I never thought it was "orgasmically" good as Marroe said it was. It was close though. I think Ebert used the same word "orgasmically good" too in his review because he even gave it 3 stars and liked it. Even if some of you all hated the first one, you could still enjoy the second one. Who else seen this and what did you think of it?

[The STE]

yeah, Ebert's weird about reviewing these type movies.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

this is probably the best movie i seen in theaters this year or so. The xharacters changed a little in this movie which is for the best. I loved the 70's feel to it. the violance was great and so was the color. The end blew me away (no pun intended). overal amazing film that i cant wait to get the DVD. 5/5

[BH14]

after going through some of the horror movies at the theatre, this is the best one in the past couple years. I liked it better than LOTD, Dark Water and War of the Worlds that i saw somewhat recently. What other horror movie is better than this movie that came out to theatres the past couple years? I dont know. High Tension? I havent seen it yet.

[alkytrio666]

I never saw House of 1000 Corpses. Do I need to before I see this?

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by alkytrio666
I never saw House of 1000 Corpses. Do I need to before I see this?

Not really

[BH14]

You dont need to see HOKC but you may get a better understanding of who and what the characters are about. I would go see HOKC before I see TDR.... And if you dont like HOKC, you should still see TDR because its far superior than HOKC. This is where we see the sequel beats out the original.

[BH14]

This is the biographies of the characters. Its very interesting and it wont spoil HOKC or TDR. None of this is referrenced toward the movie but it just gives a little more description about them all. Check it out!


now, for a little story line for those interested.... the FIREFLY clan was started by none-other than Captain Spaulding, known felon and sex-offender... Born Johnny-Lee Johns in 1918, little Johns was abandoned at an early age and spent a good deal of his childhood in a Ruggsville County Orphanage. It was'nt until he was 10, that the trouble-makeing Johnny-Lee was adopted into the fundamentalist home and community of local priest Theodore Rhodes and his wife and their 10-yr-old son Charlie. Jonny-Lee and Charlie were quick to be as brothers and spent much time together, starting mischief or playing around town. However, some local dispute arose as many began to realize the fact that Reverand Rhodes and his family who were Black, had adopted a young white child. Violence erupted, and in one tragic and mysterious house-fire, Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes died. No connections of foul-play were suspected. Despite the traumatic expierience, Johnny-Lee and Charlie lived off the farmland until moving on to urban Rugsville life. Here, the two youths lived through Charlies peddling of SPECIAL moonshine and Johnny's idea of becoming a clown. He soon dropped the act of *beep* the clown" in 1942 and solely dedicated his work to helping Charlie peddle his famous local-moonshine. This soon expanded into prostitution and gambling where in the summer of 1945, Johnny(now simply called *beep* killed for the first time.. his victim a man who was roughing a local-hoochie for extra lap-love. Stabbing him 47-times, *beep* went as far as to gouge out the eyes, tounge and sexual organs before he and Charlie dumped the body in the river. Soon, a mysterious rash of murders plagued Ruggsville and its surrounding areas... the bloodied, gutted and sexually raped bodies of many young girls were being found around the community. The killer known as "Candy-Cane" earned his name through having placed a candy cane in each victims vagina or arse. Many more kills were to follow the "Candy-Cane-Killers" path of death as Charlie and *beep* made it big in the Moonshine business and pimping arena. Charlie was now named Charlie Altamont and *beep* was re-nic-named (By Charlie) as "Cutter". Many things were to follow... but lets back-track all the way back in 1929 when a young baby was born to two psychotic parents in Bain County, Texas. He was named Baby No-Name and was abused repeatedly during child-hood. At age 13, he killed his first victim and soon followed with a sickly obsession of torturing animals among other forms of life. Enjoying his first kill, he worte it's gory details into a diary. Around this time, he spent his first few years in a slammer for breaking+entering and stealing. This evolved into the random in-and-out pattern of prison through the years until he was 30. Then, he killed his father in a blind-rage, stabbing him uncountable times. He was in Texas State Prison for a sentence of 20-40, but over-crowding expenses forced the law to release No-Name in 1960. Somewhere during his sentence, No-Name adopted the new identity as Otis B. Driftwood. He went on to become one of the worlds most sadistic and notorious serial-killers, killing many during his roaming years around Texas. Meanwhile, Pimp and moonshine peddler Charlie Altamont and derranged red-neck brother Cutter had watched their business fall and soon their lives parted as Charlie was busted for marijuana in 1945 and was sentenced to 20 years in Texas Maximum Security Prison. Cutter, who was the apparent "Candy-cane-killer" of Texas' southern-most communities, went back to his clowning days, and dropped his title as "Candy-Cane". He murdered almost a dozen victims through the use of a local "horror-buff" shop which lured unsuspecting targets. Then, in the fall of 1947, Cutter crossed paths with a strikingly beautiful first-class blonde whore named Eve Wilson and her sons Tiny,4, and Rufus junior,6, both boys a staggering 5'7" average height. Love struck Cutte and Eve and the two soon had a beutiful blonde baby named Vera-Ellen...