In a film full of intense blood and gore, too many obscenities and openly psychotic characters, Rob Zombie delivers an exceptionally interesting story in a truly demented way. From the very first moment the audience is made aware of the fact that this film would be incredibly messed up. While I was prepared for blood and gore and a terribly disturbing film, I was not prepared for Zombie, along with the cast to deliver a film with any sort of a viable story. However, through the writing and directing of Zombie and the acting from essentially the entire cast, I thought the film had a well-established story. What made the story so enjoyable was the odd relationship between family members. Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), Otis (Bill Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) had an almost cute relationship. The three (along with Leslie Easterbrook’s Mother Firefly and Matthew McGrory’s Tiny) all seemed to care very much for one another and even though, throughout the course of the film, they carried out extensive and deranged murders they seemed not to be entirely psychotic (they very noticeably had soft spots for one another). This added dimension to each of the characters made them quite enjoyable. Without establishing the fact that each of the characters cared for one another and was completely, one-hundred percent, understanding of the heinous acts that they committed I’m not sure that I would have appreciated them in the twisted way that I did. I have mistakenly not watched Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses (2003), however, seeing this film has made me interested in doing so. I was weirdly impressed with everything in this film. I thought the acting was simplistic and yet each actor portrayed their character to the highest degree, the story was borderline disgusting and yet it managed to draw in the audience and forced them to choose a side and Tyler Bates chose songs that would have ordinarily stuck out like a sore thumb in situations in which they were placed and yet he managed to make those songs flow with the story and add moments of reprieve from the fierce violence of the film. One has to be into intense blood and gore in order to appreciate this sort of film, however, while it’s difficult to fully look past the perpetual violence, I truly believe that the depth of the characters and the story potentially opens the doors to greater audience. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395584/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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