Which year film is The Devils Rejects and who is the director ?”
The Devil’s Rejects was released on July 22, 2005 in 1,757 theaters and grossed USD $7.1 million on its opening weekend, recouping its roughly $7 million budget. It went on to make $17 million in North America and $2.3 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $19.4 million. The film garnered mixed reviews with a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 53 metascore on Metacritic. Prominent critic Roger Ebert, enjoyed the film and gave it three out of a possible four stars. He wrote, “There is actually some good writing and acting going on here, if you can step back from the material enough to see it”. Later, in his review for The Hills Have Eyes, Ebert referenced The Devil’s Rejects, writing, “I received some appalled feedback when I praised Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, but I admired two things about it: (1) It desired to entertain and not merely to sicken, and (2) its depraved killers were individuals with personalities, histories and motives”. In his review for Rolli
The Devil’s Rejects A film review by Nicholas Schager – Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com House of 1000 Corpses, the last song on Rob Zombie’s 2001 album The Sinister Urge, also served as the title track to the metal frontman-turned-filmmaker’s 2003 directorial debut, but the cut’s country twang-inflected ghoulishness would have made a more apt musical accompaniment for Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects. Less a sequel than a spiritual follow-up, the director’s latest revisits House’s serial-killing Firefly clan as they’re cast into the backwater dustbowls of rural America by a sheriff (William Forsythe) intent on exacting vigilante revenge for the murder of his brother. A gritty Western-via-grindhouse modern exploitation flick imbued with the ferocity of independent ‘70s horror, Zombie’s splatterfest wisely alters virtually everything (narratively, stylistically, thematically) that characterized his campy, cartoonish and awkward first film. A
