Rob Zombie movies

I got “The Devil’s Rejects” on DVD a while back. It is one of my favorite movies of all time. The dialogue is hillarious and quite disturbing at times. There is also the overwhelming seventies feel to it. Anyone alive back then knows how dirty the seventies were. Rob certainly captured that essence in this movie. “The Devil’s Rejects” is a sequel to the movie “House of 1000 Corpses”. “House” doesn’t quite have the same seventies feel. It has more of a grotesque feel to it. “Rejects” kicks in hard from the very beginning with an insane shootout with the police, where the family dons steel plates on their faces and bodies as bullet-proof shields. It was really intense. R.J., the older brother gets killed and his mom, Mother Firefly, gets arrested while Otis and Baby escape and join up with their father Captain Spalding, the psychotic clown. All their names are aliases from Marx Brothers movies. The most disturbing scene is when Otis and Baby take the traveling country band “Banjo and Sullivan” hostage. The physical abuse pales in comparison to the verbal abuse that Otis lashes out. The soundtrack is truly awesome. Rob includes songs like “Midnight rider”, “Fooled around and fell in love”, and “Free Bird” which strangely set a foul mood. Everytime I hear these songs now, they have a different meaning for me. “Free Bird” is the song for, I guess what you would call, the second climax. It makes you feel sad for the sadistic killers. Overall “The Devil’s Rejects” is a movie for the ages, that is if you like that sort of thing. It rates up there with “A Clockwork Orange”, and “Natural Born Killers”. I don’t recommend that children watch it. There are some pretty rough moments in there. Moms and dads however, will remember it for years to come.