Synopsis
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
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Cast
- Sid HaigCaptain Spaulding
- Bill MoseleyOtis B. Driftwood
- Sheri Moon ZombieBaby Firefly
- Karen BlackMother Firefly
- Erin DanielsDenise Willis
- Chris HardwickJerry Goldsmith
- Rainn WilsonBill Hudley
- Jennifer JostynMary Knowles
- Tom TowlesLieutenant George Wydell
- Walton GogginsDeputy Steve Naish
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Dallas Observer
If your expectations aren't too high, there's lots of cool shit on-screen. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Shock-rocker Rob Zombie's loving homage to flat-out nasty horror films of the 1970s will leave many post-"Scream" (1996) horror fans cold because of what it's not. It's not slick or glossy. It's not funny or self-referential. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Isn't coherent, exactly, but what dripping-ghoul horror movie is these days? The new rule is, It's not hip to make sense when you're raising hell. - 50
New York Daily News
Zombie's sense of fun gets buried under the growing pile of bodies, and eventually, we're left with little more than a frenzy of sadism. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The endless gore and violence make the experience torturous -- and not just for the victims in the movie. - 38
Premiere
Zombie's film plays more like an experimental pastiche than an outright homage to those classic road-trip-gone-wrong movies. - 30
L.A. Weekly
Zombie wants his film to be gleefully demented, but he fails to grasp that loud, inbred evil people torturing stupid, grating benign people isn’t disturbing as much as tedious. - 12
New York Post
Kicks off as a cheap piece of retro schlock and quickly devolves into a putrid bloodbath with a thin narrative made utterly indecipherable by the first-time director's clueless approach to filmmaking.