It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I've always enjoyed Rob Zombie films for the unique perspective he brings to the screen. He's not good at plot but he usually does good character development and can evoke a lot of emotion in the viewer. This film was a serious disappointment. There are plot holes you can drive a truck through. It didn't make any sense at all once you start to dig into it. Thearacters are fairly uninteresting and it really felt like Zombie was just phoning it in. The dialogue and horror relied strongly on over used tropes, there was little imagination. The most interesting characters were barely developed. The whole film was a serious disappointment compared to his other works. Zombie said he was going to release a directors cut with extra scenes.... Still waiting for that to see if its any better.

In the black and white intro some guy gives, I kid you not, a 6-minute speech to the camera. Well, he's supposed to be talking to a priest he's been torturing and eventually kills him with a hatchet.Next we meet perhaps the most unremarkable and dullest cast of character this side of a lost-footage horror. They are driving somewhere when they run into a bunch of scarecrows blocking the road. When they stop and get out, they are attacked by a bunch of guys. Two of the characters are killed for some reason. The rest are taken to what looks like a church where they are chained. They are told they are now part of a survival game called 31 (why 31?). They have to survive a bunch of killers who will go after them one by one. The game will last 12 hours. The organizers place bets by ranking which on of the goofs will last longer.The first killer is a Hispanic little person dressed up as Hitler (what the...) who delivers most of his lines in Spanish for no good reason whatsoever, even though he can speak perfect English. Yup, so here you have 5 adults (3 male, 2 female) each with a club or some weapon, screaming, running in horror, and hiding from some little person cursing in Spanish.Next they have to face two guys with chainsaws. Then a big German dude and his sexy girlfriend. At last the survivors have to face the guy from the intro who is the expert killer. In between the challenges we hear the organizers talking about the odds and placing their bets.Of course one person survives for the weirdest of reasons. And then there's a very dissatisfying ending, not just in terms of the main villain and the main good character but also in terms of the organizers of the whole thing. No answers about anything are provided.31 just doesn't work. The cinematography is dark and ugly. Dialogue is utterly pointless. Direction is a mess, editing is a disaster. The music is good though. The main concept isn't bad, or new for that matter. A game of death where a group of people have to survive attackers so the decadent rich can entertain themselves and play with the lives of regular folk, but with a touch of Rob Zombie. It should have worked as a gory movie. Instead they cut this movie down to an R-rating and it bombed anyway at the box office. When will they ever learn? The only thing they get by censoring a horror movie is alienating the fans. And Zombie must have fewer and fewer of those with every movie he releases. And it's understandable, his movies are getting worse and worse. It leads me to wonder, just who did really direct The Devil's Rejects? The long behind-the-scenes feature explains a lot. Zombie's movie-making process is a catastrophe. He has a "whatever, anything goes" improvised approach with little in terms of a vision. He doesn't care about the end result the audience will see. He opposes a "polished" product, which is fine if you go with the "raw" concept and actually take it seriously and do something with it. He seems rather disinterested and bored with making movies. Personally, I don't have a problem with the performances. Sure, not all are that good, but many are. Elizabeth Daily is just adorable. Richard Brake gives a remarkable committed performance.There's some nice nudity, the occasional gore but not much else worthwhile.

It was what I've come to expect from a Zombie film. I actually like the things that most people don't like about his movies. I like the old school actors. I like that he writes movies resembling 70's B movies and that they have that grind house feel to them. It's no secret that he loves horror movies and he incorporates that love of the genre, while pleasing his target audience who love them as well. Everyone seemed to like Doomhead and I did as well. However, Sickhead was my favorite. Understanding the language, I loved his dialogue and his taunting, basically being sort of a bad a** regardless of size (just to be clear, not his wardrobe, just dialogue). SMZ was not annoying and doing some good work without over doing it. If I had to chose, this would be some of her better work since Halloween (and not 2)! I would have preferred more blood and gore, which I've come to expect from RZ, and for that, I knocked down my score just a tad. I heard there were several cuts made for rating purposes and I would rather enjoy seeing the movie again without the cuts. Overall, I'm glad I didn't listen to the reviews and was able to see it for myself. I wasn't disappointed. It's not The Devils Rejects, but it was still a great movie.

I loved this movie! The characters were regular people that anyone one of us would know, work with and be friends with. The 70's retro touches were great and exactly what I remembered the 70's looking like. Sheri Moon Zombie has really upped her acting game from when I first saw her in House of 1000 Corpses. She did a great job in Halloween, and was even better in The Lord's of Salem and now in this role really shows off her abilities. She makes the transition of her character from the opening to the end result natural and believable. I like that these friends and co-workers don't turn on each other as they do in so many other movies where people are put into these situations. They always turn on each other and it's every man for themselves. They worked together, they fought together. I love that Rob Zombie uses the same actors in his films. Seeing them play different parts is always really interesting. To be honest I loved the fact the women were kick butt in this film. They weren't super heroes, they were just regular women put in a terrible situation that rose to the occasion. The men weren't assholes or macho jerks. They looked out for the women where they could, because that's what good men do, but they weren't getting in the way of each other either. They played to their strengths. Tanks up front, light fighters coming up behind. It made sense. I think that's what really strikes me about this movie the most. I wasn't yelling at the screen because the characters were doing something stupid. Their actions made sense to me, were things I could see myself doing. (Not that I want to ever find myself in that situation.) Richard Brake's performance was amazing. I found him both interesting and terrifying at the same time. Really, all of the actors did an amazing job. There's not a single performance that I thought was sub-par. I recommend watching this movie, especially if you're a Rob Zombie fan, but even if you're not, it's a good movie and definitely worth taking the time for.