The Devil's Rejects
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: July 22, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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13
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13
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
The cast is full of cool cult actors past and present, and the movie is great at what it does. It's also brutal as hell, and not everyone will have the stomach for it. Read full review
88
New York PostKyle Smith
A yellow dog of a movie that delights in offending the offendable. It's also a whitesploitation classic, from its menacing sideburns to its demented laughter. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Zombie fills The Devil's Rejects with thrilling setpieces, pays homage to his inspirations without outright ripping them off (most of the time), brings back some cult-movie icons (hello, Mary Woronov and E.G. Daily), and works in some profanely clever dialogue. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
For the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The sadism of "1,000 Corpses" is ameliorated here by the addition of an action plot and open spaces, and the comedy is more skillfully played, mingling agreeably with Zombie's ardor for southern trash culture (the final showdown plays out to the strains of "Freebird," for heaven's sake) Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
It plays like "Bonnie & Clyde" as made by a committee comprised of George Romero, Sam Peckinpah, Tobe Hooper, Sergio Leone and John Waters -- but Zombie still manages to inject a pervasive flavor all his own. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The year's most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n'-wreckage-romance. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
If you're not in the mood for "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" meets "Last House on the Left," stay very far away. Horror fans will find what they're looking for, though. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Here is a gaudy vomitorium of a movie, violent, nauseating and really a pretty good example of its genre. If you are a hardened horror movie fan capable of appreciating skill and wit in the service of the deliberately disgusting, The Devil's Rejects may exercise a certain strange charm. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
A tough internal struggle must take place before one can come forward and admit enjoying The Devil's Rejects, a movie so fundamentally horrible that even its creator has to admit he's basically made a 101-minute snuff film. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Indefensible on a moral level, Rob Zombie's perversely watchable follow-up to his much-reviled cult hit "House of 1000 Corpses" is loaded with filmmaking energy. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Much of Devil's Rejects is absolutely hilarious, especially the brief appearance by a Gene Shalit-like film critic who explicates all the Groucho Marx references. Zombie's eye for the faux-'70s detail is perfect. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A blood-smeared and almost completely scurrilous love letter to anyone who ever appeared in the junk movies of the '60s through '80s. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin Chang
If you can stomach the violence -- and despite the R rating, that's a big if -- it's hard to deny that Zombie has made exactly the movie he set out to make, guaranteed to satiate his considerable fan base and sicken just about everyone else. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Rob Zombie's pitch-perfect evocation of '70s horror films about monstrous families and the unfortunates who cross their path is one of a handful of sequels that both improve on their sources and play perfectly as stand-alones. Read full review
60
Film ThreatJeremy Knox
Zombie has a great eye and ear for the look and sound of the genre. From the over-saturated yellow desert to the sound of a newscast. He’s got it down perfect. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Zombie doesn't pretend to be on the side of the victims. He makes no bones about his identification with the sexy outlaw serial killers. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
Completely unhinged, a garish and gonzo walk on the wild side. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
A little of this will go a long way. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
A canny but hollow pastiche. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Surely, this bloodthirsty comic farce about a sadistic backwoods family being hunted by a sadistic backwoods sheriff is the "Citizen Kane" of hix-ploitation horror. Read full review
50
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
The Devil's Rejects is a trompe l'oeil experiment in deliberately retro filmmaking. It looks sensational, but there is a curious emptiness at its core. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
An exercise intended exclusively for fans of the genre, another crude, hard-R bloodbath from the studio that brought you "High Tension" and "Saw." Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
This film is lean, tight and irredeemably vile. People are gonna love it. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics. Read full review
40
EmpireKim Newman
It’s uncomfortably the work of someone who thinks mass murder is cool and has no feeling for regular humans. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
While this may all sound seductively warped to those who enjoy movies featuring sexually deviant confinement and torture, blasphemous rants and rampaging rednecks, The Devil's Rejects does not live up to its sick, twisted and campy intentions. "Straw Dogs" meets "Smokey And The Bandit" for the new millennium it ain't. Read full review
30
Village VoiceBenjamin Strong
By rubbing your nose in this hillbilly mayhem, Zombie all but dares you to acknowledge your liberal elitism, simply because just now, in Dubya's America, you don't happen to find anything particularly funny or lovable about stupid, dangerous provincials. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The movie's signal flaw -- that is, other than its degeneracy, its sloppiness, its love of dark things and pretty stains and arterial spray patterns -- is Moseley as the demonic Otis. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
A pastiche of sadistic horror-movie cliches with minor traces of wit but major overflows of perversity. Read full review
12
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is a vile and reprehensible motion picture. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Evil isn't this boring. Read full review
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