The Devil's Rejects (R)

A family of sadistic killers—a big no for kids.

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Common Sense rates it
1
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Movie details
  • Studio: Lions Gate Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment
  • Directed By: Rob Zombie
  • Cast: William Forsythe, Sid Haig
  • Running Time: 101 minutes
  • Release Date: 07/22/2005
  • Video/DVD Release Date: 11/08/2005
  • Genre: Horror
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • MPAA Explanation: sadistic violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use

Parents need to know

Parents need to know that the movie includes harrowing scenes of brutal violence, horrendous language, grisly nudity, and frightening family tension scenes. The film includes drinking, smoking, drug use, torture, sex performed under threat of death, murders by penetration by large weapons, car accidents that leave splatty bodies, dead animals, prostitution and pimping, religious sacrileges.

Families can talk about reasons for its resurrection of previous films: why is the family focus of '70s horror reappearing at this moment? What are the threats to today's families that the movie makes both metaphorical and literal?

Message

Social Behavior:

A family of murderers on the run, chased by a vengeful cop.

Consumerism:

Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:

Characters drink, smoke, and do drugs incessantly.

Violence

Horrific murders.

Sex

Nudity and sexual abuse.

Language

Hundreds of uses of the f-word.

Common Sense says

What's the story?

Reviewed by Cynthia Fuchs

Like his first feature, House of 1000 Corpses, rocker/director Rob Zombie’s THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. is relentlessly ugly, violent, and visceral. All the characters -- killers, victims, and lawmen -- are unsavory. It's not so much a sequel as it is a rearrangement of the characters, as Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) and his blood-lusting children, Otis (Bill Mosely) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) seek victims and elude state cops.The gore begins when Sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe) and his team raid the home of Mother Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook). Though she is captured, the kids escape, track down their clown-faced father, and run off in search of temporary shelter with dad's old pimp buddy Charlie (Ken Foree). En route to Charlie's, Captain Spaulding and kids stop at a seedy motel, where they take four hostages, including Roy (Geoffrey Lewis) and his wife Gloria (Priscilla Barnes). She endures two sexual tortures, first by Spaulding and then the less focused Baby, both terrible to watch. As Wydell's brother (Tom Towles) was killed in the first film, he has a special desire for revenge here. He hires a couple of bounty hunters to "take care of" his prey, or at least set them up so he can finish them, without worrying too much about legal restraints.

Is it any good?

1
Steeped in allusions to other movies, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS mounts a bit of a challenge to mainstream movie conventions that invite viewers to celebrate violence. Still, with its classic/southern rock soundtrack ("Midnight Rider," "Free Bird," "Reelin' in the Years"), it does grant some pleasure in consuming brutality. And so you have to consider your own reaction to what you see, as a means to gauge its effectiveness.

That Wydell's efforts to get even are so horrific and hypocritical raises questions about vengeance as a pop-cultural (even national or political) theme, in that the pay-off is so meaningless. And concerning Gloria’s sexual torture: There's something to be said for making viewers uncomfortable in the face of such abuses, but this movie says it confoundingly.

Other choices

Last House on the Left
The Hills Have Eyes
Straw Dogs
Bonnie and Clyde
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Parents and kids say

All Reviews

There are 14 reviews.

2


Posted on 12/31/07 by ac7193 Kid contributor, age 13

Not a film for anyone under 15, I'm sorry I saw it.lol.

Ok. This film was DEFINETLY exceeding the R-rating. If I were a member of the MPAA, I would most definetly give this movie an NC-17; I don't know what they were thinking or if they were completely high! Anyways, Rob Zombie could've done better.(Excellent job with Halloween; I LOVED it.)
0


Posted on 03/06/07 by spycaper51 Kid contributor, age 12

hollywood...tsk tsk tsk

whene will hollywood just stop making these ultra-sadistic movies? i mean, 1 or 2 was ok, but 39!? hollywood officaly lost it's touch, every time I turn on the TV, thers atleast 3 horror movie ads every time, we heard you the first time! so stop bombarding people and TV with your sick sadistic movies! thank you
5

Posted on 12/20/06 by Anonymous Adult contributor

3

Posted on 03/29/06 by Anonymous Kid contributor, age 12

into the movie at the first part of the movie

it is an okay movie for the kids to watch when a parent is in the room watching it with the child.
4


Posted on 01/08/06 by Dittochs64 Kid contributor, age 15

Very Disturbing and Unsettling, good horror

This is a great horror flick for adults! I love movies with bloodshed and Violent sequences, for example the Punisher was, in my opinion, underated, but Devil's Rejects was too far over the top. A girl has her head exploded over the road in a car hit and characters are tortured and sexually abused. They say the f-word way too many times (528 according to imdb). NOT FOR KIDS, good horror though.
5


Posted on 11/19/05 by mrwonka02 Kid contributor, age 14

alot of intence violence and gore, it may disturb you, the language is very strong, and sex, it does have nudity. but it is good, it has plenty of humor, drama, suspence,and horror
5


Posted on 11/13/05 by ThatDanGuy Adult contributor

Must see for horror fans.

This is the sequal to his House of 1000 Corpses, however, unlike 1000 Corpses, it's evident Mr. Zombie gave the script some thought. From the beginning Rob Zombie grabs you by the back of your neck and pulls you in to a world of absolute madness, where it holds you not only hostage, but will also force you to question your own sense of right and wrong when you realize you're sympathetic for the Rejects. The movie is extremely violent and the use of profanity would make Al Pachino's Tony Montana blush. Great horror movie, but absolutely not for children or the squemish.
5

Posted on 10/10/05 by Anonymous Adult contributor

Rob Zombie is a Master of Film

This is a great film for anyone over 17. You have to remember, it is JUST A MOVIE, these things DIDNT really happen. This is a throwback to the great exploitation films of the mid-late 70's/early 80's that were always fun drive-in flicks. If you liked any of these, you will love The Devil's Rejects: The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on The Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), these are all great masterpieces of American Film History & The Devil's Rejects proudly takes its place along side them and many others from that era in independent film making. Do yourself a favor, see this movie & remember, IT IS JUST A MOVIE.
5


Posted on 09/16/05 by SlipknotMaggot Kid contributor, age 15

Movie!

This movie is great for kids!
0


Posted on 09/14/05 by Christianmom9803 Adult contributor

dont waste your time

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Adult Reviews

There are 7 reviews.

5

Posted on 12/20/06 by Anonymous Adult contributor

5


Posted on 11/13/05 by ThatDanGuy Adult contributor

Must see for horror fans.

This is the sequal to his House of 1000 Corpses, however, unlike 1000 Corpses, it's evident Mr. Zombie gave the script some thought. From the beginning Rob Zombie grabs you by the back of your neck and pulls you in to a world of absolute madness, where it holds you not only hostage, but will also force you to question your own sense of right and wrong when you realize you're sympathetic for the Rejects. The movie is extremely violent and the use of profanity would make Al Pachino's Tony Montana blush. Great horror movie, but absolutely not for children or the squemish.
5

Posted on 10/10/05 by Anonymous Adult contributor

Rob Zombie is a Master of Film

This is a great film for anyone over 17. You have to remember, it is JUST A MOVIE, these things DIDNT really happen. This is a throwback to the great exploitation films of the mid-late 70's/early 80's that were always fun drive-in flicks. If you liked any of these, you will love The Devil's Rejects: The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on The Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), these are all great masterpieces of American Film History & The Devil's Rejects proudly takes its place along side them and many others from that era in independent film making. Do yourself a favor, see this movie & remember, IT IS JUST A MOVIE.
0


Posted on 09/14/05 by Christianmom9803 Adult contributor

dont waste your time

0

Posted on 08/15/05 by Anonymous Adult contributor

Vile and Mean-spirited

I hate to lend credence to this film by giving it more publicity, but I think it really points to something significantly abhorrent deep in the recesses of the minds of the filmmakers.
5

Posted on 08/04/05 by Anonymous Adult contributor

2


Posted on 07/27/05 by llarson Adult contributor
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Kids Reviews

There are 7 reviews.

2


Posted on 12/31/07 by ac7193 Kid contributor, age 13

Not a film for anyone under 15, I'm sorry I saw it.lol.

Ok. This film was DEFINETLY exceeding the R-rating. If I were a member of the MPAA, I would most definetly give this movie an NC-17; I don't know what they were thinking or if they were completely high! Anyways, Rob Zombie could've done better.(Excellent job with Halloween; I LOVED it.)
0


Posted on 03/06/07 by spycaper51 Kid contributor, age 12

hollywood...tsk tsk tsk

whene will hollywood just stop making these ultra-sadistic movies? i mean, 1 or 2 was ok, but 39!? hollywood officaly lost it's touch, every time I turn on the TV, thers atleast 3 horror movie ads every time, we heard you the first time! so stop bombarding people and TV with your sick sadistic movies! thank you
3

Posted on 03/29/06 by Anonymous Kid contributor, age 12

into the movie at the first part of the movie

it is an okay movie for the kids to watch when a parent is in the room watching it with the child.
4


Posted on 01/08/06 by Dittochs64 Kid contributor, age 15

Very Disturbing and Unsettling, good horror

This is a great horror flick for adults! I love movies with bloodshed and Violent sequences, for example the Punisher was, in my opinion, underated, but Devil's Rejects was too far over the top. A girl has her head exploded over the road in a car hit and characters are tortured and sexually abused. They say the f-word way too many times (528 according to imdb). NOT FOR KIDS, good horror though.
5


Posted on 11/19/05 by mrwonka02 Kid contributor, age 14

alot of intence violence and gore, it may disturb you, the language is very strong, and sex, it does have nudity. but it is good, it has plenty of humor, drama, suspence,and horror
5


Posted on 09/16/05 by SlipknotMaggot Kid contributor, age 15

Movie!

This movie is great for kids!
5


Posted on 09/04/05 by little_missy3 Kid contributor, age 17

Look past the blood/gore

Sure every 2 minutes theres a bit of gore here, alot of blood there, but really the movie isn't THAT Bad. Personally I love it. My friends and I saw it in the theatres 5+ times. It's definately not for a younger audience, but the soundtracks great, the characters /actors were well thought out.. the whole movie was put together perfectly. It appeals to a darker side in all of us i think
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