![]() ![]() Tracey Walter, Daniel Roebuck, and Elizabeth Daily also put in appearances. Zombies' inane script, which lacks imagination and wit, makes a waste of some good atmosphere, production design, and cinematography.Īll of that said, the casts in his films are usually pretty eclectic. Therefore, it's hard to care much about what happens to most of them. The opening scenes that establish our protagonists are rough going, and don't exactly endear the characters to this viewer. Once again, he shows that his way with dialogue tends to be hit-and-miss sometimes he comes up with something quotable, but most of the time it's just insipid. Rob Zombies' crowd-funded movie was a return to the sort of blood-soaked depravity with which he made his name, after too much disappointment was expressed over "The Lords of Salem", his attempt to step outside his usual wheelhouse. The absolute worst of the bunch is a monster named "Doom-Head" (Richard Brake), who revels in his job. The proceedings are run by macabre Masters of Ceremony - Father Murder (Malcolm McDowell), Sister Serpent (Jane Carr), and Sister Dragon (Judy Geeson) - and the mean s.o.b.s who torture, taunt, and kill them have names like "Sick-Head" (Pancho Moler), "Death-Head" (Torsten Voges), and "Psycho-Head" (Lew Temple). Reviewed by Scott LeBrun 6 / 10 How could a nightmare be any worse than this reality?įive travelling carny workers - Charly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Panda (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), Venus (Meg Foster), Levon (Kevin Jackson), and Roscoe (Jeff Daniel Phillips) - are abducted by a sick bunch of freaks and made to play a sadistic game of survival. The ending tried to be more ambiguous but failed. I mean she can't even cry or scream properly. One cannot make out the place or the set up. The movie had excessively annoying hand-held shots and bad editing. The quick-cut, shaky-cam gave me a headache. The worst was the editing n camera shots. There is no character development, you really don't care who kills who or why. I was disappointed by the Halloween remakes. Rob Zombie's The House of 1,000 corpses was good and The Devil's Reject's was better. Reviewed by Fella_shibby 4 / 10 Zero tension, zero suspense, non scary, boring, quick-cut, shaky cam stuff. And being that, it's pretty disappointing. but it's certainly a bad Rob Zombie horror movie. ![]() Not that it's such a bad generic horror movie, as just that alone it's fairly average. I'm still a fan of his previous films, I'll still watch whatever he makes next. This is BY FAR the least interesting thing I've seen come from Mr. maybe it was just bad improv because the writer couldn't think of what to do with them? But they're mostly reduced to just goofing around and swearing at each other. Older women like her are so seldom allowed on screen in heroic roles). and I DID like that they weren't just a bunch of squealing teenagers (Meg Foster especially was fascinating to look at. The carnies themselves had the potential for being the sort of interesting protagonists I'd pull for. Unless something nastier was edited out of the version I saw. When the clowns do get their hands on someone they're not likely do do anything surprising at all. He even does the loathsome 'golf clap' routine that should be forever banished to Cliché-land. There's really nothing special about him except for the amount of time he gets on screen. The movie takes its time building up 'Doomhead' but what is he but another loudmouthed guy in a clown suit? I assume he'd go down just as easily to a well-aimed blow to the head. There's little or no suspense, barely any atmosphere outside of the clowns' initial entrances and Malcolm McDowall's nonsensical prattling. Instead, we get some badly filmed fight scenes and routine kills that could be out of any war/crime/fantasy film. Oh sure, Its clown's show up and promise all sorts of vile entertainments. It didn't ever come close to crossing any lines of standardized horror. Unfortunately, 31 let all the air out of that balloon dog for me. Zombie's characters will survive to the final frame). I never feel safe in his movies (except I'm pretty sure Mrs. One thing I've generally liked with Zombie's movies is that, unlike a lot of horror films such as Hostel - which promise all sorts of transgressive horrors only to bait and switch with some relatively tame eyeball gouging, Zombie's movies generally follow through on their threats. None of them are perfect but none of them are boring, all of them bring something interesting to the table. except for it being a Rob Zombie movie and my enjoyment of all his other movies so far. I had no anticipation or information about this movie going in. Reviewed by venusboys3 5 / 10 These Clowns Are All Talk And Not Enough Bite
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