wild and demonic

i prefer House of 1000 Corpses to Zombie's second movie with these characters (Devil's Rejects). House is almost cliche in its general plot; a group of young people get stranded while driving and end up a a house full of a homicidal bad-roads sort've family. Zombie is smarter than to fall to cliche though, his films are clear homages to this these concepts and he is able to breathe new life into them.

House moves along with many twists and turns giving us something which is not exactly unexpected but rather something that feels fully developed. these weird things that happen seem utter plausible if manically demented.

Where Devil's Rejects spends the majority of its time trying to be vile, House develops the characters and story into a fully enjoyable experience. Its weird, its vile, its demented, and its totally fun.

9/10