The Devil's Rejects (Unrated) [Blu-ray]

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Written and directed by Rob Zombie, this terrifying sequel to "House of 1000 Corpses" finds Captain Spaulding, Otis and Baby Firefly on the run from the Texas State Police. Despite being pursued by the authorities, the trio continues their murderous rampage before a final showdown with bounty hunters, Texas Rangers and a revenge-seeking sheriff. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe star. Unrated version; 109 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English DTS ES, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; deleted scenes.
Homicidal maniacs have a field day in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, an ultraviolent spin-off from Zombie's critically reviled 2003 debut, House of 1,000 Corpses. As Zombie continues to cultivate his name-brand variety of extreme horror and splatter-film homage, he definitely takes his place among connoisseurs of carnage. In the case of The Devil's Rejects, several characters from 1,000 Corpses return for another marathon of mayhem, as the murderous Firefly family (led by Sid Haig as the maniacal "Captain Spaulding") turn their bloody wrath against hostages in a fleabag motel, while the local sheriff (William Forsythe) plots revenge against them for the killing of his brother. Before their inevitable showdown, Zombie has plenty of fun--perhaps a little too much fun--indulging his penchant for sick, sadistic humor and gruesome atrocity. Clearly, Zombie fancies himself as horror's answer to Quentin Tarantino, but he lacks Tarantino's gift for riveting plots and escalating tension. Instead, The Devil's Rejects is just raw, rampant excess from start to finish, paying visual tribute to gruesome classics from the '70s and guaranteed to earn the cult status that Zombie is all too obviously aiming for. He's an unabashed horror buff who's carving a niche in the genre he loves, shamelessly satisfying a small but loyal audience of sicko-phants. --Jeff Shannon