The Devil's Rejects

The Devil's Rejects
A blood stained arm extending from an open hotel room lays on the floor, next to a footprint, with an open police car parked out front in the background.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRob Zombie
Written byRob Zombie
Based on
List of Firefly (film series) characters
by
  • Characters
  • Rob Zombie
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPhil Parmet
Edited byGlenn Garland
Music byTyler Bates
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Lions Gate Films (United States)
  • Tiberius Film (Germany)[1]
Release date
  • July 22, 2005 (2005-07-22)
Running time
109 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United States
  • Germany
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish
Budget$7 million
Box office$20.9 million

The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 American black comedy horror film[3] written, produced and directed by Rob Zombie, and is the second film in the Firefly film series, serving as a sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. The film is centered on the three fugitive members of the psychopathic[4] antagonist family from the previous film, acting as the film's villainous protagonists, with Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Zombie's wife Sheri Moon Zombie reprising their roles, and Leslie Easterbrook replacing Karen Black as the matriarch.

The Devil's Rejects was released on July 22, 2005, to minor commercial success, and mixed reviews, although it was generally considered an improvement over its predecessor. It was the final film to feature Matthew McGrory before his death the same year, although he did have a posthumous cameo in 2017's The Evil Within, which had been filmed in 2002, and the film's DVD release was dedicated to his "loving memory."

  1. ^ "Film #24453: The Devil's Rejects". Lumiere. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  2. ^ "The Devil's Rejects (18)". British Board of Film Classification. June 13, 2005. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  3. ^ "Here are 10 of the best horror movies to watch on Sky Cinema right now". February 16, 2022.
  4. ^ Leistedt, Samuel J.; Linkowski, Paul (January 2014). "Psychopathy and the Cinema: Fact or Fiction?". Journal of Forensic Sciences. 59 (1): 167–174. doi:10.1111/1556-4029.12359. PMID 24329037. S2CID 14413385.