Synopsis
You'll never get out alive.
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
2003 Directed by Rob Zombie
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Sid Haig Bill Moseley Sheri Moon Zombie Karen Black Erin Daniels Chris Hardwick Rainn Wilson Jennifer Jostyn Tom Towles Walton Goggins Matthew McGrory Robert Allen Mukes Dennis Fimple Jake McKinnon Harrison Young Irwin Keyes Michael J. Pollard Chad Bannon William Bassett David Reynolds Joe Dobbs III Judith Drake Gregg Gibbs Ken Johnson Irvin Mosley Jr. Walter Phelan Rob Zombie
Benjamin L. Cook Frederick Howard Mary Erstad James P. Lay Joe Barnett Susan Cahill Michael Lyle Buck Robinson
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Horror, the undead and monster classics Intense violence and sexual transgression horror, gory, scary, killing or gruesome zombies, undead, horror, gory or flesh horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic cannibals, gory, gruesome, graphic or shock scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten Show All…
This is how I imagine the slightly racist, white country girls with bible passages in their Instagram bios at my university act like when they get home.
>Ari Aster rips off Rosemary's Baby and The Wicker Man
Wow such a master delivering the greatest horror movies of our time!
>Quentin Tarantino spends his entire career paying homage to spaghetti westerns, martial arts movies and more
ONE OF THE GOATS!
>Rob Zombie pays homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and debuts with a unique style that he displays in each and every one of his following films
NOOOOOOOO SUCH AND HACK AND TERRIBLE FILMMAKER!!
Sophia Petrillo voice: picture it... New Jersey... 1995... an older relative started slipping me music tapes like Alice In Chains, the Cure, the Cramps, and White Zombie... I loved it. I ate it up like a damn coke fiend plowing over bags of Tony Montana’s stash... feasting on the macabre soundwaves laced with touches of things I’ve grown up with—universal monsters, cult movies, and free spirited ‘oh well whatever nevermind’ decadence.
Then he took my ten year old self to see white zombie live. It was crazy, tons of decked out metal punk space cadet idiot beard people swaying to some psycho dreadlocked cowboy CHUD Munster delivering sermons of filth and sweat drenched devil piracy of the utmost importance to 10 year…
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Yeah, sure, this is mostly a spin-off of Natural Born Killers and Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it's deliciously fun and spooky. Rob Zombie's energy is equal to a kid in a candy store - a horror nerd given a studio budget and the freedom to go nuts at every opportunity. All the day-glo neon coloring and eccentric characters is just the tip of the iceberg before it all collapses into a total haunted house horror show. Eventually, it has less to do with TTCM and instead offers a The Funhouse and Eaten Alive vibe - simply a grand guignol delight! Meaningless images and violence. Ravenous and gross. The production design is legendary work. Gotta love how Rob Zombie revisited these characters with The Devil's Rejects as a vicious true-crime dissection, and then with 3 From Hell as a last-stand Western character study. A trilogy that is somehow unified in spite of every entry taking a different direction.
I used to not love this as much, but damn if it doesn’t get better every time I watch it! Rob Zombie’s debut is one big surreal 70’s inspired mindfuck and I love it. The whole thing is sleazy af andit really does do a great job of evoking the feel of the best early exploitation horror flicks. When Dr. Satan shows up it doesn’t really make any sense, but it’s so incredibly bizarre and amazing to look at that it doesn’t even have to.
I think what really pushed the rating up for me on this rewatch was Karen Black’s crazy performance as Mother Firefly. That woman was a true friend of horror and an absolute legend that gives this her all and it’s my favorite thing going on in this horror movie love letter full of things to adore.
Bananameter: 🍌 honestly pick any part here 🍌
hicksploitation Spider Baby. still not sure there's much going on here beyond the vulgar style experimentation but zombie is one of the few modern horror directors with an actual understanding of what made Texas Chainsaw special. "this can't be real."