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"The Devils Rejects"

I know absolutle nothing about this except what I saw in the trailer and that looked balls. The narrator said it himself when he said something like "no film is more gruesome!!"
Whatever happened to good old horror where you didn't need to see pickled heads in jars or disembowlled intestines, where psychological baiting, quick scene flashes and superb scores built everything up. Now its all GORE GORE GORE and I'm sick of it. You never saw one stab in Psycho yet it was a hundred times better that most of the horro pap around now. Hitchcock said it best when he declared that the best thing to do was play on the viewers imagination.

Goatboy wrote:
> Apparently some of the characters are survivors/reappearances from
> House of 10,000 Corpses (Zombie's 1st film, haven't seen it though)

Texas Chainsaw Masascre for the MTV generation. Lovely shot of a cop with a gun to his head and "Over the rainbow" playing over the tops, while the camera pans away, then one of the best sound effects I've heard as a richochet plumes behind him when the trigger is pulled.

The rest sucks ass, apart from Captain spalding who's genuinely creepy.

Top mark for Zombie *not* filling the soundtrack with his music, and sticking to the 70's explotiation theme too.

RoJ wrote:
> quick scene flashes

That works great on me. Makes it all feel disturbing. Same sorta camera work as Requiem For A Dream too and that Rubber Johnny thing.

The posters you see around of this film do look sick. Shan't be watching it at the cinema, that's for sure.

Hm, that trailer looks pretty good actually. TV one was pretty misleading and your info tells me it isn't some heavy handed attempt at a horror.

It's the 2nd film from Rob Zombie (of White Zombie), pyschological horror isn't his thing - it's more of a nod to 70s exploitation horror, hence the feel and look of the trailer.

Awesome, it has Danny Trejo in and the wonky head bloke from Hill Have Eyes & Cuckoo's Nest.
Check trailer 2 for some seriously grimy revenge horror action with William Forsythe [URL]http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/the_devils_rejects/trailer_2/[/URL]

Apparently some of the characters are survivors/reappearances from House of 10,000 Corpses (Zombie's 1st film, haven't seen it though)

I like abit of gore now and again, cause it feels like the only certificate they give to films in cinema these days is 12A.

Yeah, even though there was no sightings of crazed psychopaths, blood or corpses I thought it was great, liked how the story was built up and so forth, you feel the fear of the students position. Even the last part with the guy in the corner, excellent. Haven't seen the sequel though.

Yeah, I liked Blair Witch too. Much more effective than your normal horror/thriller.

Haven't seen it. I quite like Blair Witch even though it's tossed, I'd take it over crap like The Exorcist which was more comedy than horror.

It's so much harder to actually play on the audience's fears psychologically, so crappy directors just throw blood around and make loud noises to make you jump.

I actually thought Open Water did the psychological tension thing pretty well, but I'm aware that "balls" is the general verdict one that one too.

I know absolutle nothing about this except what I saw in the trailer and that looked balls. The narrator said it himself when he said something like "no film is more gruesome!!"
Whatever happened to good old horror where you didn't need to see pickled heads in jars or disembowlled intestines, where psychological baiting, quick scene flashes and superb scores built everything up. Now its all GORE GORE GORE and I'm sick of it. You never saw one stab in Psycho yet it was a hundred times better that most of the horro pap around now. Hitchcock said it best when he declared that the best thing to do was play on the viewers imagination.