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Free as a Bird: The Devil's Rejects at 15

Rob Zombie has been one of the most polarizing figures in the horror community since making the leap from musician to filmmaker. He made his feature writing and directorial debut with House of 1000 Corpses in 2003 - after being purchased by Lions Gate when its original studio, Universal, shelved it three years prior due fears of it receiving a dreaded NC-17 rating. Corpses fell victim to many issues faced by first-time directors, but the end result remains potent. It's apparent that Zombie was unsure if he'd ever get the opportunity to make another movie, resulting in an anarchic melange of ideas and influences.

Despite the troubled production and an unfavorable critical response, the film turned a healthy profit, giving Zombie the sinister urge to make a sequel as his sophomore effort. The Devil's Rejects was released via Lions Gate 15 years ago today; July 22, 2005. It introduces a realism to the previously exaggerated world created in Corpses. The horror elements are present, but the follow-up also incorporates aspects of exploitation, western, road movies, and even comedy. Zombie’s refined approach allows him to blend the tones more smoothly this time around.

The Devil’s Rejects kicks off with a literal bang. Set in 1978, the murderous Firefly clan introduced in House of 1000 Corpses - collectively responsible for more than 75 deaths - have been tracked down by the vindictive Sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe, The Rock). A shootout between the family and state troopers ensues, with Baby (Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie) and Otis (Bill Moseley, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) narrowly escaping. They meet up with Baby’s estranged father, local celebrity Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig, Spider Baby), who helps them flee from the law. The fugitives’ reign of terror continues on the lam.

Zombie creates a fascinating and challenging dichotomy between protagonist and antagonist. Although the Fireflys' actions are reprehensible and Wydell’s vengeance is justified, the former villains are presented as heroes for whom the audience is encouraged to root. Boldly set to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird,” the poetic climax is among the most effective uses of a popular song in cinema, as far as I'm concerned.

Captain Spaulding is still a vulgar curmudgeon but spends most of the movie sans his iconic clown makeup, as the desperate times have forced him to assume the role of patriarch of the Firefly clan. Otis is no longer the gangly albino introduced in Corpses, instead portrayed as a deranged, bearded, lunatic in the mold of Charles Manson, leading to a career-best performance by Moseley. Similarly, Baby's sweetly sadistic tendencies are presented in a more grounded manner. The ironically named Tiny (Matthew McGrory, who passed away shortly after the film's release) doesn’t have much screen time but plays an important role in the story.

In addition to the characters evolving, several changes were made on the casting side between Corpses and Rejects. Mama Firefly was recast with Leslie Easterbrook (Police Academy) after cult favorite Karen Black reportedly demanded too much money to reprise the role. While Black's magnetism is impossible to match, Easterbrook admirably sinks her teeth into the unhinged matriarch. The hulking Rufus was recast from one former professional wrestler to another, as Tyler Mane (who went on to play Michael Myers in Zombie’s Halloween films) took over the role originated by Robert Mukes. Grandpa Hugo was written out of the script due to actor Dennis Fimple dying before production. The mad Dr. Satan (Walter Phelan) appeared in a gory scene that was deleted because Zombie - rightfully - felt the character was incongruous.

As he’s known to do, Zombie populated the Rejects cast with cult actors in roles both large and small, including such recognizable faces as Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Elizabeth Daily (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), Priscilla Barnes (Three’s Company), Geoffrey Lewis (Double Impact), comedian Brian Posehn, Danny Trejo (From Dusk Till Dawn), wrestling icon “Diamond” Dallas Page, Tom Towles (Night of the Living Dead), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie), P.J. Soles (Halloween), Mary Woronov (Chopping Mall), adult film star Ginger Lynn, and an uncredited Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Parts VII-X).

Whereas Corpses drew influence from 1970s horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, Rejects adopts a gritty tone akin to the era’s exploitation movies. It’s matched with a grainy aesthetic and a lot of handheld camera work, with cinematographer Phil Parmet's (Zombie's Halloween) documentary background proving useful for emulating the cinéma vérit�� style. Zombie is careful to balance the brutality - such as the intensely uncomfortable motel scene, which initially earned the picture an NC-17 rating - with levity. Supporting characters, such as those portrayed by Foree, Berryman and Posehn, are the primary sources of comedic relief, but even the Firefly family earn a few laughs (“Tutti fucking fruity!”).

Zombie has continued to make interesting, if divisive, choices as a filmmaker, but I believe The Devil’s Rejects remains his strongest work on the whole. (The Lords of Salem is vastly underappreciated, but that's an article for another day.) The film is relentless and emotionally draining, but it’s also entertaining and endlessly quotable. In striking that unique tonal balance, the characters were cemented as bona fide horror icons. While Zombie undermined his own efforts with last year's superfluous 3 from Hell, The Devil's Rejects saw the filmmaker acting as free as a bird.

The Devil's Rejects is available on Blu-ray and DVD via Lionsgate.

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I did Twitter’s #31HorrorFilm31Days challenge again this year - at the outset I thought it would be really hard to accomplish this time around, but it wasn’t - I finished with days to spare. Of course now I won’t be able to watch another horror movie for another month at least. This year I went heavily 80′s, rewatching several favorite old chestnuts and finally catching up with never-seen-before perennials like Return of the Living Dead. I also saw some good newer stuff like Creep 2 & the new Halloween. Gotta mix it up at least a little, right? Anyway, read my full list with their accompanying twitter comments below, and happy Halloween! 

1. CREEP 2 ('17) Female filmmaker doesn't *flinch* when guy she’s filming tells her he's a serial killer, thinks he’ll make for fab material. Good luck with that. 

2. HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II (’87) Who was that who said "Hell hath no fury like that of a 50′s prom queen scorned by being burned alive who reappears in the 80′s as a vengeful spirit supported by lots of FX"? Whoever said that, they are vindicated.

3. MR JONES ('13) Film-making couple has neighbor who is either (A) a famous reclusive artist ("like Banksy!") or (B) a guardian between us & a nightmare realm. I'm gonna go with (B)

4. THE BIRDS (’63) Our fine feathered friends become our fine feathered foes in this classic Hitchcock thriller. 

5. HOLIDAYS (’15) Featuring 8 short tales, each on a different holiday. It's hit or miss but u may well enjoy imagining Mitch McConnell as the male character in K. Smith's gruesome anti-misogyny revenge fantasy - I sure did. 

6. GOD TOLD ME TO (’76) Randos begin killing randomly, claiming "God told me to!" But what's reeeeally going on? Cop w/ personal issues is on the case. Solid, wacko B flick features tons of late 70s NYC goodness

7. THE BEYOND (’81) Woman inherits hotel in New Orleans which turns out 2B one of the 7 Gates to Hell! The hotel offers lovely amenities such as murderous walking corpses & eyeball eating spiders

8. THE BLACK CAT ('81) Title cat goes full-out serial killer in small English village, also manages to get bricked up behind a wall b/c you know, that's the classic black cat behavior 

9. PROM NIGHT (’80) Jamie Lee Curtis & group of teens are stalked by vengeful masked killer. Everything comes to a head (literally) at the disco prom. Sample music lyrics: “Prom night/Everything is alright!”

10. HALLOWEEN (’78) The boogeyman comes to Haddonfield with a big knife and a nasty attitude, but Final Girl extraordinaire Jamie Lee Curtis is having none of it

11. THE FOG (’80) Title fog + ghosts + vengeance + death = total entertainment. With this we conclude the Jamie Lee Curtis trilogy portion of this year's #31HorrorFilms31Days

12. DEADLY BLESSING (’81) Wes Craven’s overstuffed tale of sinister goings-on in a Hittite community includes interesting moving parts, incl a young Sharon Stone & a bonkers ending. Sample Hittite dialogue: "“You are a stench in the nostrils of God!”

13. DEADLY FRIEND (’86) Cute brainiac plants an AI chip in his murdered girlfriend's brain and she proceeds to go on murderous rampage because in good times & bad times that's what Deadly Friends are for  

14. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (’85) A genuinely funny horror comedy w/ pitch perfect performances by a stellar cast of B-movie pros + a killer soundtrack. A fan fave for good reasons, glad I finally saw it!

15. THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (’71) As the poster advertises you get Vampires! Voodoo! Vixens! Victims! But no dripping blood, TBH

16. SUSPIRIA (’77) Dario Argento’s baroque classic stars Jessica Harper, a coven of e-vil witches, and fabulously over-the-top sets, cinematography & score. 

17. NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS (’75) Nice Dr. & wife move to crusty seaside town of rude, fearful villagers + band of murderous dead blind knights, and learn what niceness gets you in this world

18. THE WITCH (’15) Puritan family runs afoul of witches in ye olden tymes: death, madness, & corruption of the innocent ensue, in pretty much that order. 

19. MALATESTA’S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (’73) Uncommonly weird, original little grindhouse item recommended to that certain type of fan who responds 2 made-on-the-fly auteurist nonsense. And yes: that *is* Tattoo from Fantasy Island! 

20. THE PREMONITION (’76) whackjob lady has her eyes on nice lady's cute lil adopted daughter & plans to take her but the nice lady has THE PREMONITION and things escalate from there

21. SWEET, SWEET LONELY GIRL (’16) Titular sweet  n lonely 70′s girl goes 2 stay with ailing recluse aunt, meets a hot mysterious other girl and things proceed from weird 2 weirder. 

22. WE GO ON (’16) Young man terrified of life offers big $$$ to anyone who can prove existence of an afterlife, comes 2 regret what he learns. Fine cast + scary, thoughtful story: this gets the Sincere Rob Recommendation (tm) 

23. TERROR TRAIN (’80) Crazed madman vs obnoxious fraternity members aboard New Yr’s Eve party train. With the exception of Jamie Lee Curtis, who ably performs final girl duties, you'll root for the killer

24. RE-ANIMATOR (’85) Jeffrey Combs is fabulous as a wacky med student who discovers a way 2 re-animate dead tissue in this funny, gory (somewhat Bro-y) '80's cult classic

25. STAGE FRIGHT (’87) Enjoyable Italian fromage features an escaped psychopath in an owl mask vs. a locked theater full of actors rehearsing a play. Co-starring: a stormy night, unintentional laughs

26. THE NESTING (’81) Agoraphobic writer from the city rents a spooky old house in the country which A. was once a brothel & B. was the scene of a massacre, leading to C. Complications.

27. THE NINTH GATE (’99) Filthy rich dude hires Johnny Depp to acquire rare satanic book. Predictably, satanic things then begin to happen

28. HALLOWEEN (’18) Michael Myers returns after 40 yrs 2 reprise his gr8st hits from the original & its sequel, H20, & even the R. Zombie sequel (the PTSD stuff). Still - SURPRISE! - none of it compares to the original '78 classic.  

29. FRIEND REQUEST ('16) Facebook-inspired horror. I'm srsly unfriending it unliking it & wish I could unwatch it 

30. FIEND (’80) Supernatural entity possesses a dead man and proceeds 2 Fiendishly strangle neighbors b/c that's what Fiends do. Amateurish but endearingly sincere production was apparently made for $39.99 + some coupons

31. ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (’06) Unappealing teens go 2 ranch  4 fun & sex & 2 be killed off one by one as usual, but wait there’s a twist! But wait again you’ve figured it out already.

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2nd viewing on Halloween 2018

As of now just texted my mom I've been out of the theater for a few minutes. This post is gonna contain spoilers and reveal I guess why I felt the way I did the first time. Now just some seconds ago a lady who works at this McDonald's just wiped my table. I decided to go to the McDonald's so I can feel more comfortable in a spot I know.

Let me be honest about the film the more I think about it and me seeing it again. Especially a day after the 40th anniversary of the original Halloween I like it more and more.

It is honestly the best film after the original. Especially seeing this time even before I saw it again I understood some stuff which I feel could be deep yet it might just be me. Yet other people have thought so too.

Also for some reason two ladies decided to bring to small girls to see it. They weren't really bothersome I just wondered why they were seeing the movie and I was trying to think of reasons why maybe the kids wanted to see it or someone couldn't watch them. They were mostly quiet and not bothersome. Just during towards the end of the film three times I think it was the same girl saying mom I'm scared(or I'm so scared most likely the first part) the point is I wonder why stuff like this happens. But mainly it was fine.

Yet what I like about this and beware spoilers like I said is the whole idea of people trying to get Michael or understand him.

Especially the first meeting with Laurie with Aaron and Dana who aren't bad people but they just don't get it. Along with this doctor character Sartain with this I felt was a stupid twist and I'll talk more on that. I had to go to IMBD to spell the doctor's name right it wasn't on Google where I checked the theater times before that.

But this twist and I hated this twist which I thought it was stupid. The idea the possibility this doctor might of been the reason instead or Michael himself got Michael out. When I feel it should be Michael but watching it I don't know if I could confirm if that's what happened.

Yet what he says and his role is. I get it and I feel like he is basically the people who keep trying to understand what makes Michael tick. The idea that why Michael is and what he is and he talks about Michael in a way that I pretty much go with what's going on with Michael.

But also I feel like it's also what they were trying to do is no matter how many times you try to ask it's simple.

Michael Myers simply became the embodiment of evil, he knows what he's doing, he is literally the God damn boogeyman. Their is no need to explain because John Carpenter's intention was to have Myers as a force of nature.

He was once a person but not anymore. Especially Samuel Loomis himself explained it so much. Just purely and simply evil.

Especially a comparison from me Michael is a literal demon. He does things because he wants to. Including this old thing from some old Halloween novel that Laurie reminded him of his sister Judith makes more sense then the whole sibling thing. While I don't hate it but I'm okay without that.

Including the whole death scene of Sartain is just fucking brutal, and feels like in a way to me no offense a saying of, "Shut the fuck up, stop asking what makes Michael tick, he's just evil" it feels like a answer to all this idea.

So okay Mom texted me she says all is good here. But basically the idea again it's simple. Which is why while I've been rethinking about the 2007 reboot and their is some stuff I don't mind. But Rob Zombie didn't seem to understand while even if John told him to make it his own. It just feels like Michael is a different character and I know it's a different interpretation. Especially it has it's fans and that's fine. But I'll always prefer the original 1978 film to that of the 2007 film.

I wanna say Sartain's death let me be honest. The face stomp death in Rob Zombies Halloween 2 is brutal and I feel like I wonder if I was scared by that. Yet I was young and I don't seem to mind it. But Sartain's death is easily the best kill in the 2018 film, especially it's just so fast and more brutal that the last time I saw it I thought I heard a squish maybe like a pumpkin or whatever. Yet also he's killed by the same Michael from the first film. Who is probably just sick and tired of everyone wanting him to say something.

Now let me say something and this is a death I wanted. It was Allyson's boyfriend or ex boyfriend Cameron this little mother fucker I wanted to get killed by Michael in some way yet he doesn't. Especially originally I wanted Michael to go at the party and start killing some youngsters but heard they police evacuated the party. But I can do without or whatever I wouldn't mind it, but in the next movie I want that Cameron kid to be gutted.

Again Michael and Laurie are the best things about the film. Yet seeing the film again I don't mind characters like Karen and Ray. Also Allyson is nice too.(also Hawkins was cool I'm on the part of Michael can survive being burnt)

Especially her friends and that part with Vicky and Julian honestly it's funny. Hoping that Julian made it out okay.

Now let me talk of why I acted how I was when I first saw the movie. Basically I was surprised because of some directions they took. Especially the understanding of the show Laurie went through in the original film I understand and how the other characters are important like how Laurie is.

Including well I was expecting and I'm gonna sound silly. I was expecting more like, "Michael's shanking folks and doing his usual bullshit, and him and Laurie have an epic battle". Yet it's weird just the word epic can be used in many ways. Okay text but I should remember Michael is 61(yet he basically doesn't give a damn he's still strong and can still keep going) and Laurie is 57.

Especially I had this weird expectation that they were both gonna die or mainly Laurie. Now the ending and this is where I said I was confused.

I seriously thought until I looked up stuff and thought of it more. It makes it seem like Michael actually died. Especially I remember last week when I saw this film with my bro and his friend, my bros friend said he didn't want Michael to die and I honestly felt like that. Including mentioning this Halloween is done by John Carpenter yet I never read it. Along with me staying during the entire credits.

I seriously thought they killed off Michael for good. Yet it's most likely he escaped and seriously Michael's been burnt alive he can handle that shit. My mindset basically felt like a kid because it was an ending that made it feel like it's over no more films.

Especially I even thought that day I'm thinking shit like this.

"What about Freddy Vs Jason Vs Michael?" Despite they would have to share rights, and whatever the hell is going on with Elm Street and the fucking crap Friday The 13th is going through with this God damn lawsuit. It's a crossover I want my favorites trying to kill the fuck out of each other. Especially let's add Laurie's reaction being, "HOW MANY MORE FUCKING PSYCHOPATH'S ARE IN THIS WORLD OR EVEN DIMENSIONS!?" Suggesting other characters.

Yet also this thing I remember from I think the Halloween Resurrection special features that some sort of I guess contract Michael can't die, no seriously by some sort or paper thing he can't die. That's why we have bullshit like Halloween Resurrection and whatever.

But anyway they are gonna make a sequel anyway this film has made so much money it's amazes me and makes me happy that a horror film like this especially a slasher made a lot. Especially I don't wanna spread rumors it could be only a year we can wait or whatever I don't wanna spread false stuff.

Tags dealt with basically I wanted to share that with you all. I'm gonna get some food and I basically liked the film.