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Rating:
A total atrocity.
The good old Rob Zombie, after 15 years of good music, slaps us in the face with this B-movie splatter, a product of years of frustrations with the Production/Distribution that absolutely didn’t want to release such a putrid and senseless horror comedy in theaters, aimed solely at destabilizing the viewer, but which obviously leaves plenty of room for laughter with scenes and gags that skirt the absurd.
You know the usual group of nosy characters traveling toward the unknown and the dark in search of new thrills? Well, the protagonists (the good ones) are these: 4 cheeky kids with their noses in the air (and they also deserve to die since they are almost more annoying than the “villains” of the film and act terribly) in search of the tree where a certain Dr. Satan is buried, a mad surgeon apparently dead during World War II (at least that's what Sid Haig, in the role of Captain Spaulding in the tunnel of horrors at the beginning of the B-movie, says). In reality, they only find trouble, and the situation gets worse.
There is no glimpse of salvation from the moment they enter the county of the FireFly family, a bunch of schizophrenic/sadomasochistic/trash/porn crazies with a marked sense of the blackest and most macabre humor. From then on, it's more and more blood, more and more filth, descending into an almost unbearable spiral of torture and horror during this Halloween night; the attempt of one of the 4 kids to save themselves at the end by trying to escape proves futile. They all die.
It is a "revival" of the horror films that were around in the '70s. It deserves 2 stars because, in any case, the film features very particular light effects, good cinematography, and decent music.
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