![]() ![]() It’s a Rob Zombie film so of course they are staying in the nastiest, dirty hotel in all of Mexico, with a little person with an eye patch concierge, during a day of the dead party with sex workers and drunken knife throwing competitions. The scene soon explodes in chaos with Otis stabbing people, Wolfman brutally and graphically slitting the warden’s wife’s throat as he watches and Baby chasing a naked woman around suburbia before finally stabbing her over and over again on the front lawn, waving to the old lady across the street as she does it, “Hey grannie!” The gang make a run for it and start making their way towards Mexico and once they get across the border this is where the movie really shines. The warden helps Baby escape and brings her back home where Otis, The Wolfman, the dead clown, two beaten and bloody women, one fully naked and a dead body are watching old horror movies. Again, what’s not to love? More maniacal dialogue, greasy characters, dark violence and even darker comedy. Then a strange visitor comes knocking on the front door.Ĭlint Howard, dressed as a clown who Otis forces to tell jokes at gunpoint to the hostages. While Otis tortures the Warden, his wife and two friends try to convince the warden to break Baby out of jail. The pair then discuss “A House Call” which lands them at the Warden’s house and two women bound at the dinner table. Rob Zombie has a unique ability to personify scumbag in his films unlike any other director. It is in this scene where the Wolfman truly shines and while no one could ever replace Captain Spaulding, he is an acceptable replacement as he distracts a man with a gun pointed to his head by talking about his tits and porn in graphic detail. This includes a pair of vigilantes who are hunting for the convicts. Meanwhile, Otis and the Wolfman are on the lamb, arguing about old movies killing whomever crosses their path. Obviously baby massacres them, spilling their guts all over the ground and writing “Fuck You Greta” with a big heart in their blood on the ground. Greta seeks revenge by taking Baby out of her cell and locking her in a boiler room with two large and menacing looking inmates who are there to kill her. Obviously she doesn't get paroled and instead head butts one of the guards, Greta played by Dee Wallace, in the face breaking her nose. Her insane rambling dialogue during her parole hearing could have only been created by recording an actual paranoid schizophrenic who was on acid and then mixed all their words up. I’m going to go ahead and say it, Vera-Ellen “Baby” Firefly is the best female slasher, killer, whatever of all time. Then we move on to Zombie’s homage to the women in prison movies of the 1970’s as we see Baby in jail who is up for parole. So far, what's not to love? Grimey, 1970’s style news reel that cuts hard to a furniture commercial, fantastically diabolical dialogue, blood, guts, gore and a character named The Midnight Wolfman? Expectations met! This opening effectively fills in the gaps from the last 10 years, provides quotable material, writes Sid Haig out of the story, introduces us to the main “villain”, the Warden and ends with Otis breaking out of jail with help from his half-brother, The Midnight Wolfman. There is also a solid interview with Otis that rivals his “I’m the devil and I’m here to do the Devil’s work” quote from Devil’s Rejects. We get the few small scenes before the untimely death of Sid Haig, a jailhouse interview with Captain Spaulding which has your typical Zombie dialogue about grease paint and dancing for the man. Baby, Otis and Captain Spaulding all survived their shootout with the cops and after a lengthy hospital stay, they have spent the past 10 years in maximum security prisons. The movie opens with a 1970’s style newsreel very similar to the documentaries of the Manson family which shows the aftermath of the epic finale of Devil’s Rejects. Buckle in kiddies, were gonna dive into this thing, spoilers and all. As a big fan of Zombie’s work I was concerned, this was a sequel to Devil’s Rejects over 10 years later, perhaps Rob had lost a step? I went into the film with a fair bit of trepidation but by the time the credits rolled I was supremely confused at how anyone with expectations for this film did not see them all met. This Halloween season Rob Zombie released the latest in his trilogy following the Firefly family 3 From Hell and while there was a lot of hype among horror fans, the release of the film seemed to fall flat. ![]()
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