The Devil's Rejects
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: July 22, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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13
Mixed:
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
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