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Embrace the rejects, hope you've got the patience!

Advantages: Has a certain appeal, doesn't shy away
Disadvantages: Some dodgy camera work, acting and FX

...guru/buff/cult director Rob Zombie saw the success of his debut feature length film House of 1,000 Corpses, he must have thought 'Sequel, here we come!' straight away. Definitely not for everyone, and criticised by many, it was also hailed as a hit by many due to the gruesome nature and the almost B-movie style of directing it adopted. Enter this sequel, dragging with it a number of the characters from the first film, and keeping up the trends with ...
...film, although some of the more basic plot lines in this film could 'spoil' the first, if such a thing was feasible. It sort of has two parts to it, kicking off with five unsuspecting members of a touring music group holed up in a motel room, who are held captive in the room by a pair of sadistic siblings, Otis and Baby Firefly, fresh from the first film. What strikes straight away is the sheer lack of care factor for human feelings or physical ...

pmcds 17.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil's Rejects (DVD)

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Blood red and violent as hell

Advantages: Gory, troubling, difficult, acomplished
Disadvantages: If you don't like horror this ain't the film for you...

...is a light leap from the original. The first film was filled with MTV style jump cuts, a punishing and at times banal sound track and repeated shocks. Towards the end of the film it did manage a truly strange atmosphere and was something slightly different, but overall has to been seen as a failure. All this changes with The Devil's Rejects. Based on the exploits of a twisted and violent family the film throws away much of the story from the original ...
...Basically cut in two halves, the film spends the first part establishing how violent and unpleasant the family are - and does it with a blood drenched sequence of vignettes that leave everyone cold. When I watched the film in the cinema I'd never seen so many people leave. For perhaps the first time since the seventies we see a real sense of sexual violence on the screen and it's very hard to watch. By the time the family make it to their supposed ...

jarowdowsky 29.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil's Rejects (Special Edition) (DVD)

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A good movie.

Advantages: Classic low-budget horror movie
Disadvantages: dated

...movie got me interested from the start. I always wanted to know what happened next and even got a bit scared at some points. It also got me a bit sad when the dog got killed:( I wont spoil the movie by revealing all the plot but basically it's a story about a family who break down in the desert where they lie prey for a bunch of cannibals. It's a good story but i knew what would happen next. This movie is much better than any modern horror film. ...

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Review of The Hills Have Eyes (DVD)

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Hamlet Is A Horror Movie

Advantages: Ok depending on how you see it
Disadvantages: Can be at times painful to watch

...UK premier of Lee Demabre’s Smash Cut, Much focus was given to the movie because it bought together three massive names in the horror industry David Hess (Last House On The Left, House On The Edge Of The Park), Michael Berryman (Hills Have Eyes (original), Cut & Run), and legendary horror movie director Herschell Gordon Lewis (Two Thousand Maniacs, Wizard Of Gore) in a rare starring role. At the premier of Able Whitman’s (David Hess) latest movie ...
...won’t beat about the bush, Smash Cut is pretty awful, but deliberately so. It’s a sort of homage to Herschell Gordon Lewis whose movies were always pretty awful, even though the story plots were often very good. Director Demebre has embraced this mix of a good storyline with awful delivery and produced a pretty diabolical 90 minutes of “entertainment”. It’s obvious that Smash Cut is not meant to be taken seriously, from its tongue in cheek promotional ...

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Review of Smash Cut (DVD)

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a comedy scary movie

Advantages: full comedy
Disadvantages: i dont know

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Review of Scary Movie (DVD)

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