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Avg. Critic Score: 53 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    It plays like "Bonnie & Clyde" as made by a committee comprised of George Romero, Sam Peckinpah, Tobe Hooper, Sergio Leone and John Waters -- but Zombie still manages to inject a pervasive flavor all his own. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    A tough internal struggle must take place before one can come forward and admit enjoying The Devil's Rejects, a movie so fundamentally horrible that even its creator has to admit he's basically made a 101-minute snuff film. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Indefensible on a moral level, Rob Zombie's perversely watchable follow-up to his much-reviled cult hit "House of 1000 Corpses" is loaded with filmmaking energy. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Here is a gaudy vomitorium of a movie, violent, nauseating and really a pretty good example of its genre. If you are a hardened horror movie fan capable of appreciating skill and wit in the service of the deliberately disgusting, The Devil's Rejects may exercise a certain strange charm. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Justin Chang

    If you can stomach the violence -- and despite the R rating, that's a big if -- it's hard to deny that Zombie has made exactly the movie he set out to make, guaranteed to satiate his considerable fan base and sicken just about everyone else. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Zombie doesn't pretend to be on the side of the victims. He makes no bones about his identification with the sexy outlaw serial killers. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Lawrence Van Gelder

    The Devil's Rejects is a trompe l'oeil experiment in deliberately retro filmmaking. It looks sensational, but there is a curious emptiness at its core. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    A little of this will go a long way. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    Crass, vacuous exercise in grind-house stylistics. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    The movie's signal flaw -- that is, other than its degeneracy, its sloppiness, its love of dark things and pretty stains and arterial spray patterns -- is Moseley as the demonic Otis. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids A family of sadistic killers—a big no for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the movie includes harrowing scenes of brutal violence, horrendous language, grisly nudity, and frightening family tension scenes. The film includes drinking, smoking, drug use, torture, sex performed under threat of death, murders by penetration by large weapons, car accidents that leave splatty bodies, dead animals, prostitution and pimping, religious sacrileges.
  • Families can talk about reasons for its resurrection of previous films: why is the family focus of '70s horror reappearing at this moment? What are the threats to today's families that the movie makes both metaphorical and literal?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: A family of murderers on the run, chased by a vengeful cop.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Horrific murders.
  • sex false5 Sex: Nudity and sexual abuse.
  • language false5 Language: Hundreds of uses of the f-word.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink, smoke, and do drugs incessantly.
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