I will say flat out right now that The Devil's Rejects is by far the absolute worst movie I've ever seen. I'm barely inclined to even write about a film that is so unbelievably bad that for the first time in my entire life, I considered walking out on a movie. As far as I see it, The Devil's Rejects is the manifestation of Rob Zombie's dream to see all of his sickest fantasies crammed into one very long movie. I love dark, edgy, violent movies. I love movies like, Se7en, Saw, Dawn of the Dead, and The Silence of the Lambs, but The Devil's Rejects has absolutely none of the elements that make the previous films enjoyable. The Devil's Rejects is violence without purpose or style. It's just a bunch of sick junk pond fuck-os whom the audience (at least one would hope) isn't supposed to like, killing people for whom the audience doesn't really care, while reciting inanely immature dialogue. Here's a typical string of witty repartee:
Otis: Hey, fuck you, bitch
Baby: No, fuck you!
Otis: No, bitch, fuck you!
Brilliant, no? This is a "horror" movie in that it's full of brutal killing, but it's not at all suspenseful. It's obvious that people are going to die, it's just a matter of how and the degree of brutality. It's hard to sit through a movie in which none of the characters are likable, the dialogue is juvenile and the plot is boring AND predictable. I cannot understand all the rave reviews posted on IMdb. Maybe I'm the problem. Maybe watching people die gruesome and realistic deaths for 2 solid hours for no particular reason is awesome and I just don't "get" it. Maybe, but I hope not.
Posted by Mike at July 28, 2005 08:26 PM