[Once again I'm going to attempt to do
a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done
this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I
succeeded. Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
It’s understandable that Rob Zombie couldn’t resist going
back to the well one more time. Since the critical and commercial success of THE
DEVIL’S REJECTS and the more mixed but still profitable response to his
remake of HALLOWEEN, subsequent projects (HALLOWEEN 2, THE
LORDS OF SALEM, THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO, 31)
haven’t fared nearly as well. So why not get the old gang back together and return
to the franchise that made Zombie an above the title name in horror?
Despite having been pelted with a hail of gunfire while
Lynard Skynard’s “Freebird” blared on the soundtrack, the murderous Firefly
clan of THE DEVIL’S REJECTS somehow survived. They did not, however,
escape. After recovering from their wounds, the family are tried and sentenced.
They also rise to infamy and even outright hero worship among some segments of
society in a sequence that feels more than a little reminiscent of NATURAL
BORN KILLERS.
