This movie has some classic ingredients for a great horror movie. Interesting characters, some really vile gore scenes, bad language, unnecessary nudity, and some familiar faces; Leslie Easterbrook (from the Police Academy movies), Ken Foree (the original Dawn Of The Dead), 80's pop singer/actress E.G. Daily and Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes) provide more than enough nostalgia for retro junkies, like myself.

The story isn't overly fast paced but the gore can be thick and pretty relentless and is at times implied rather than shown which I think adds to the experience. I really enjoyed Leslie Easterbrook as Mother Firefly (replacing Karen Black who was in the first movie, House Of 1000 Corpses). She does some wonderful overacting in her scenes, it's a shame she wasn't in it more, same goes for E.G. Daily who plays a sassy hooker. In fact everyone was great in their parts, let's face it this is not Shakespeare - this is a horror movie, I for one demand hammy over the top performances and a bit of camp! I don't want to give anything away but I will say my favourite scenes involved Mother Firefly and the sheriff, and Captain Spaulding and a mother and child. If you enjoyed House Of 1000 Corpses, this is a superior sequel in my mind and you wont be disappointed. If your idea of horror is a glossy PG-13 rated remake you might want to try weaning yourself onto this kind of movie with something a little less extreme.

I can't remember being so bored and disgusted during a movie in a long time. "The Devil's Rejects" picks up where "House of 1000 Corpses" left off and the family finds themselves under the assault of the local police in a shoot out right at the beginning. The assault is led by Sheriff Wydell who happens to be the brother of another Wydell killed by the family in the first movie. Mother Firefly is arrested but Otis and Baby escape the shoot out and are soon joined by Captain Spaulding at a seedy motel after they take a traveling band hostage. Then the movie takes great pains to show us how depraved these people are. They torture and humiliate their hostages just because they can. Why? I don't know, perhaps there is a point to it in the end. After they finish with the hostages Captain Spaulding takes them to his brother Charlie's whore house while Sheriff Wydell tortures Mother Firefly back at the police station. Do you remember Billy Dee Williams' "Lando Calrissian" character in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"? Well that's exactly what Charlie is: a businessman under threat by a higher authority to give up his friends in order to save his own ass. That's what he does and Wydell get Spaulding, Otis, and Baby with the help of two hired thugs. From there on, Wydell pretty much exhibits the same respect for the trio as they do for their hostages. I'm not saying who wins or loses but in the end the audience is treated to the entire Lynryd Skynyrd "Freebird" song to some slow motion bloodshed.

What can I say? This is about the most pointless movie I've ever seen. As an audience, we don't empathize with Baby, Spaulding, or Otis at all. We think they are disgusting and morally depraved but there is no answer as to why we should even care about them which is essential for keeping the audience emotionally involved in the story. During the humorous parts I couldn't even laugh because the characters were just people that I hated. I kept thinking, "I hope someone puts a bullet in all three of their skulls soon. I don't know how much longer I can watch this." I felt as tortured as their victims since I was essentially watching an hour and a half of three people who I hated from the beginning. In "House of 1000 Corpses" I really liked Sid Haig's "Captain Spaulding" character and thought he was the high point of the movie. In "Devil's Rejects" I couldn't stand him. If you've seen Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" then you've seen "The Devil's Rejects" except that in this movie the characters aren't really that entertaining.

Seeing how bad this movie was is a shock since I liked "House of 1000 Corpses" even though it was a little rough around the edges. I expected, coming into this film, that Rob Zombie would have honed his craft and whip up something even better than his previous effort. The truth is that his new film is much, MUCH worse than I could have possibly imagined.

Folks, this ain't even worth a rental!

Too rape-y, too sadistic, too macho, too...Unlikable characters say inane dialog, violence and gore used as a crutch. With a weak plot, violence and gore can be a substitute for better writing/directing. I guess I'm not a B-horror movie fan, that could be the problem here. I understand that budgets can be tight for any movie that isn't Twilight or Transformers related, especially a horror movie budget, I get that. Hey and Rob Zombie is not Kubrick, he doesn't need to be, he's his own thing and he's never tried to top the Master Of Horror, Stanley Mother F*cking Kubrick, again, I get that. My problem with Devil's Rejects is that it sucks to watch and is in no way any good, and I don't know why Rob Zombie made this movie.