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Work for an internet based charity down in London, spend way too much time watching movies, drinking and buying irrelevant gadgets and japanese toys
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Rob Zombie's follow up to his first film (The house of 1,000 Corpses) 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 and reinvents the family as a slightly more functional Texas Chainsaw Massacre brood.
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 safe haven they've left a trial of violence and blood for their Sheriff nemesis to pursue.
It's here that the film changes, taking it's 1970's aesthetic even further and becoming an outlaw film. Putting the family through hell themselves initially seems cathartic but somehow Zombie leaves you rooting for them by the end.
It's a great ride and well worth watching if you're a fan of Peckinpah or early Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper - it's also hands down the most intelligent horror film made for years.
The double disc set includes some great extras including the feature length making off that only falls down due to an early finish - it would have been great to explore the editing and critical reaction as part of the extra as well.
If you like horror that's blood red and morally dubious it won't get better than this. However be warned, this isn't a film like modern horrors, it's been dragged up from the depths of one of the most violent and unpleasant movie decades of all time - and the difficulty in watching certain scenes reflects this.
Last word to the soundtrack - perfect, just perfect
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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