The Devil's Rejects



Linus and I got our gore on yesterday at a daytime screening of The Devil's Rejects, a film about a family of white trash serial killers named after Groucho Marx characters on the run from a sheriff avenging his brother's death at their hands. We both loved it, although my love was unapologetic and his was not. That's because I'm sicker than most people.

Here are some of my favorite review excerpts so far:

Like a diseased cross between Bonnie And Clyde, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, this is wall-to-wall, sick-as-hell horror that’s going to offend just about everyone. I loved it.
- David Edwards

The Devil's Rejects is the best horror movie in decades. It is a ruthlessly violent, viciously entertaining blood feast. Not since Leatherface first swung his chainsaw has anyone spewed such a delirious obscenity against human nature onto the screen.
- Steve Parsell

Despite some giddy humor and a soundtrack of '70s Top-40 hits, this is "entertainment" for sociopaths, occasionally effective but impossible to recommend with a clear conscience.
- Jeff Shannon

He's [William Forsythe] having fun and you might, too, if you've got the glands and the heart for this stuff. Not everybody does, and there are times during "Devil's Rejects," as there were in the slasher-genre's heyday, when you wonder if anybody should.
- Gene Seymour

OK, now, listen up, people. I don't want to get any e-mail messages from readers complaining that I gave the movie three stars, and so they went to it expecting to have a good time, and it was the sickest and most disgusting movie they've ever seen. My review has accurately described the movie and explained why some of you might appreciate it and most of you will not, and if you decide to go, please don't claim you were uninformed.
- Roger Ebert

Obviously, this film isn't for everyone. But it was definitely for me. It was also the first movie I've seen in the theater and want to see again in the theater since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.