pulp massacre

rob zombie spends a lot of effort here trying to spew as much senseless vile language as possible for no reason at all. subtlety is not his forte. thats the largest failure of this movie and its mostly tolerable.

its clear zombie is a fan of movies; this movie is a montage of all kinds of homages to the past and more recent films. the language is a clear attempt at tarintino's pulp fiction minus any style or...dare i say...class. where he plays homage in other ways, zombie is clever and capable; with the dialog however he's simply out of his league.

also, as is always a bad idea, he cast his wife as one of the lead rolls. she can't act. at best she's ok, at worst she's laughable. of course, for a horror movie this isn't a big issue all in all.

the bulk of the movie owes a lot to texas chainsaw massacre and holds it own well.

in the end, i felt more beat over the head with the constant crude language than shocked by the horror of it. it just made it difficult to care at all for these people. but everything else about the movie is well worth seeing.





9/10