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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)

The one that brought the scary movies down!!

Advantages: Good bits of comedy in some parts of the film.
Disadvantages: Worst out of all the scary movies and old jokes.

...am a fan of the scary movies but in my experiance from watching scary movie 4 i found some parts amusing, whereas other parts of the film were unhighly amusing and the storyline could have been better. I found scary movie 4 to be the worst movie out of the 4 films that have been made, and i would recommend you to watch the other 3 scary movies if you haven't yet seen them. The effects in the film are quite good, but to be honest they could have ...
...them 10 out of 10, especially Anna ferris the main actor that has stared in all 4 scary movies she is a great actor in the scary movies and i find her highly amusing and i think if it wasn't for here the film probably been worse than it was. ...

newreview08 06.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Scary Movie 4 (DVD)

Not Scary. Not Big. Not Clever.

Advantages: Passes the time well enough
Disadvantages: Not to everybodys taste at all

...caught the premiere of the Scary Movie franchises 2004 outing, Scary Movie 3, on BBC1 last night but with nothing else better to do I did. Last night was not the first time I had seen the movie, because as awful a series of films the Scary Movie set is becoming there is something about them where you have to watch just to see how bad they are getting. Revisiting this film wasn't going to be fun, but it was going to kill some time. Just like all horror ...
...the rest of the film, Scary Movie 3 has a beginning scene that won't exactly send chills down your spine, but gets the point across that the film will do as it says on the tin. This scene includes Pamela Anderson, for all those lovers of the cameo, but it's not until after this scene that things really get started. Appearing in all the previous Scary Movie's, it is no surprise to see Anna Faris signed up as the lead character playing Cindy Campbell. ...

Nathan_Innit 22.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Scary Movie 3.5 (DVD)

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)

One Hilarious Movie!

Advantages: It's hilarious
Disadvantages: none

...had to purchase the DVD. Scary Movie 4 is rawer and more hilarious than any of the previous ones, and is definitely a must see. This one makes parodies of "War of the Worlds", "The Grudge", "The Village" and "Saw". There is even a parody of Brokeback Mountain in the first part of the movie that was so raw and hilarious, I'm still laughing about it. Cindy (Ana Faris) is back again, and this time she finds out the house she is hired to work in as caretaker ...
...which is next door to the house of the loser Tom Ryan who is being visited by his children Rachel and Robbie. Alien tripods invade the earth and Cindy's friend Brenda is back and they both try to find the ghost boy's father in the village and then they all save the world from destruction by aliens. Label: Dimension/Genius Products Studio: Weinstein Company Release Date: 2006-08-15 DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, Audio Track 1: English, ...

RedTape 07.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Scary Movie 4 (Blu-Ray)