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Sherriff Quincy Wydell gets his men to lay siege on the Firefly home. During the Siege however the Firefly family decides they will not go down without a fight. Wydell is only able to arrest mother Firefly, while Baby and Otis are able to escape. Then they meet up with their partner in crime Captain Spaulding as they try and stay alive.
Very similar in style to its predecessor, Devils Rejects is much more refined and focused. The visuals don’t seem so all over the place and there is much better pacing and transition from scene to scene. Rob Zombie returns to writing and directing chair in a film that is a solid conclusion to a film that left such an open ending.
However, Rejects may not be the film many people were hoping for. It is less focused on so much gore and more focused on the psyche of its main characters and showing exactly how messed up they are. Many of these scenes involve much more suspense and less killing then Corpses had. Zombie seems more focused on leading up to the Brutal scenes then just placing them through-out randomly.
Zombie gets much more menacing performances from his actors. Where Corpses relied on making them seem downright sadistic, Rejects focuses more on them desperately trying to remain alive. They are no longer in the comfort of their own home and they are no longer in full control and Zombie captures both the performance aspect of this as well as the atmospheric portion of it. What I think Zombie does here more then in Corpses is he captures the performances based on the atmosphere in which his characters are surrounded. Corpses seemed confined to the emotions of the victims, where as Rejects tries to capture both the emotion of the victims as well as the Firefly family themselves.
Sid Haigs little screen time in Corpses is more then quadrupled in Rejects, but this time around he does not give the best performance in the film. William Forsythe is ruthless as Wydell in his pursuit of the Firefly family. His driven revenge is capture so well. You can see clearly he will stop at nothing, even willing to eventually take the law into his hands to get things done. I think even Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon Zombie stepped up their game and Leslie Easterbrook didn’t miss a beat stepping into replace Karen Black as mother Firefly. All these actors either came in strong or stepped it up to help propel Rejects into what could be described as horror genre excellence. Most sequels drop off in quality, but the second and final part is better then Corpses and is a stand alone atop modern day horror.
What honestly draws people to a Rob Zombie film in the first place is the knowing that there will be the classic horror elements mixed with an odd blend of modern horror. Rob Zombie is the definition of modern horror. His flicks are moody, gory, unpleasant and many other things, but ultimately they are horror unlike anything we have seen in recent years.
