The Devil's Rejects

I'm not normally a fan of horror movies, but I watched this with a friend who rented it the other day, and I really enjoyed it.  It was very gory, which I'm not particularly fond of, but the gore was created somewhat creatively so I can at least accept that.  

"The Devil's Rejects" is a Rob Zombie movie about a family that has physically and sexually tortured individuals for decades.  The torture, I'm told, is much more prevalent in the first movie, "House of a Thousand Corpses."  The first movie is much more about showing the family's history of torture while "The Devil's Rejects" shows the family on the run.  They go by aliases, all from Marx Brothers movies.  

The movie shows two groups, the family on the run, and the police chasing them.  The chief police officer shows signs of going crazy as well.  He continually sees hallucinations of his brother, another police officer, who had been tortured and killed by the family.  

The movie starts with a raid on their house which is followed by a fire fight between police officers and the family.  The mother, Mother firefly, was arrested by police.  She was eventually killed by the sheriff in an act of revenge.  

Baby firefly, Zombie's wife, and her brother Otis Driftwood run after the fire fight and end up at a hotel where they continue to torture the individuals whose rooms they stole. As they run from the fight Zombie has The Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider" playing.  The eventually meet up with their father, Captain Spalding and head to his "brother's" place, a brothel.  

The sheriff had hired two thugs, one of which is The Diamond Dallas Page, to find the Spalding clan.  The two bounty hunters trap the family and the sheriff with their help take the Spaldings back to their own home.  He ties them up and begins stapling pictures of their deceased victims to there stomachs.  All the while, the house is in flames.

The sheriff is eventually killed and the trio get away.

The ending of the movie was my favorite scene.  The three Spaldings left, shot up and bleeding, encounter a roadblock of police officers.  They get their guns ready and full charge at the police as Zombie has "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd playing.  They are killed by police for the conclusion.

I really like what Zombie does with music.  He has a keen ability to put great songs exactly where they should go.  He does a great job of using songs that fit the mood and scene perfectly, and if they do not fit the scene, they are so opposite that they fit to show the Spalding clan's insanity.