![]() If witches in the horror genre needed to be brought back to their gothic and bloody roots, these three helped sell it. It’s as if they were pulled from Macbeth and tweaked to fit Zombie’s style. That’s the twisted relationship with a Zombie flick.ĭee Wallace ( Cujo), Judy Geeson, and Patricia Quinn ( The Rocky Horror Picture Show) come together as a formidable force. But it’s so obvious Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, and many more are having a blast, you almost forget and have fun along with them. House of 1,000 Corpses is an incredibly dark and gritty monstrosity of a film, presenting some of the most repulsive monsters in horror cinema. If the fever-dream aspects of Alice in Wonderland were put into a blender with the slasher and body horror genre, perhaps it would create this concoction. But it's how much further Zombie goes with his concept that makes the film truly unforgettable. The premise alone is interesting enough: A haunted attraction where you feel unsafe and is, in actuality, a life-threatening situation, works on real emotions. That is all thanks to the sheer lunacy that Zombie throws into this film. The Devil’s Rejects and 3 From Hell tried to repeat the success but there really was no way they could top the original in this trilogy. For better or worse, even with the new elements, Halloween felt like an overall retread of the 1978 classic.Ī group of friends discover a roadside attraction and become victims to the sadistic Firefly family. The kills are brutal, meeting the quota for movie audiences of 2007. Loomis, who is somewhat the same from the original, which is a shame as having someone with the acting caliber of Malcolm McDowell, the role could have been taken in many other directions. She’s not a character trope, she’s very much a character. Actress Scout Taylor-Compton's Laurie can be obnoxious and sweet. Laurie Strode is very much an average, everyday teenager in this version, compared to Jamie Lee Curtis’ original take on the role which was far more vanilla. He was born into a horribly abusive life and he grew up to be a horribly abusive killer, delivering his trauma onto his unlucky victims of Haddonfield. ![]() Some might say the humanizing of Myers was too much while others loved the more realistic take with the character. Michael Myers is made into a humanized boogeyman, one who is very tall and hulking thanks to the role being played by retired wrestler, Tyler Mane. How much could such a franchise really explore? Not much, and while the trio got some mild development and pathos previously, here they’re just a clan of psychos. ![]() The universe Zombie created is full of terrible people doing terrible things. If 3 From Hell pulled anything from the previous films, it wasn’t the better aspects. This is an add-on, feature length epilogue, made for fan service more than anything else. Unfortunately, with only two of the infamous Firefly family members propelling the story, it loses the momentum of the colorful, vile monsters that populated Zombie’s last two entries in the trilogy.ĭespite the rather finite ending of the previous film, there isn’t much detail given to explain how Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood ( Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding ( Sid Haig) somehow survived their predicament. Ten minutes of grainy “archival” footage open the film and by the time things really get going, it’s obvious this is a very different film within Zombie’s Firefly trilogy all the way up to its western-themed finale. After escaping prison, the Firefly family goes on the run for one more rampage full of blood and chaos. ![]()
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