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Post by moviemaniac22 on Jun 6, 2017 19:49:39 GMT
Has anybody seen this? I caught it last night. I was almost going to buy it on dvd. I'm glad I didn't. It was like a poor version of 'Natural born killers' I didn't enjoy it much. However I must say a couple of scenes I liked. The motel slapping scene and when Forsythe caught them and was beating the crap out of them. But the ending seemed abrupt. Maybe I could have enjoyed it more if I had seen 'the house of 1000 corpses which was the first movie.
5/10
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jun 8, 2017 13:42:10 GMT
I really like The Devil's Rejects and found it to be an improvement over House Of 1000 Corpses. It was an homage to 70's action films, with some extreme contemporary film-making style thrown in, ala Tarantino and Stone. It has a terrific soundtrack and some vile and twisted scenes. It also showed that Rob Zombie was getting a strong grasp on the visual medium of film-making. I know this is a minority opinion and I put it off for a while because of all the bad reviews; but I think Halloween II-09', is awesome in pretty much all departments for a hardcore horror\slasher fest. It knocked me for a six, and I really despised his remake of Halloween-07', after anticipating it for a while. Zombie's 'Halloween II' grows on me each time I watch it. Visually speaking, I was liking his stylistic experimental approach. Then to follow that up with 'The Lords of Salam'. It was an interesting direction, that I thought worked for him. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jun 8, 2017 13:55:00 GMT
I actually enjoyed his debut effort, over his follow-up. Had more fun with it, and the cinema experience always stuck with me. Watched it couple times since, and it holds up fine. Chaotic, macabre and frenetic TCM love letter from Zombie.
On the other hand, 'The Devil's Rejects' just didn't do anything for me. While grimy and full-on. Strangely it began to irritate me, outside a couple of moments.
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Post by moviemaniac22 on Jun 8, 2017 18:41:26 GMT
I scratch my forehead wondering how a music artist even became a film director to begin with. Each to his own I guess. I would also add to say that I'm not a fan of his directing style either. Shaky close up views just does't cut it for me unfortunately.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 8, 2017 23:32:11 GMT
10/10 Its on my top 20.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jun 10, 2017 6:40:55 GMT
Zombie's 'Halloween II' grows on me each time I watch it. Visually speaking, I was liking his stylistic experimental approach. Then to follow that up with 'The Lords of Salem'. It was an interesting direction, that I thought worked for him. I feel that Halloween II endorsed Zombie as a genuine cinematic stylist and auteur. His skills and talent were fully realized here. It's like I couldn't believe what I was seeing, and with his visual approach and the atmosphere he created, I felt he really knocked the ball out of the park here. I also liked the characterizations of Laurie and Annie here, compared to his first questionable offering. I like his director's cut of H2, but think the theatrical ending is better. I am bamboozled with negative backlash he received for this film. I think it is a work of high horror art and wonder if those who ragged on it, saw a different film to me.  While very different and I am still a little confused by the film, I agree with what you have commented on with The Lords Of Salem. It was an interesting directorial choice that also worked. Have yet to see his latest offering 31. I think that the opening hospital sequence is probably my favourite set-piece from all of his films. A lot of the backlash was definitely against the Sheri Moon Zombie / white horse scenes and Loomis' change of character (which I thought was effective). For this outing he does take you out of your comfort zone, pure brutality, giving the viewer from start to finish his own vision. For better, or worse it was creative, and different. Definitely better than his 2007 "Halloween" remake. "31" for me, was a come down. Excluding Richard brake's intense performance, it was a cheap, uninspired "The Most Dangerous Game" crossed "Running Man" variant. Almost going through the motions. |
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