The Devil's Rejects
Rob Zombie is one in a long line of genre directors (*cough*Eli Roth*cough*) who are convinced that if they ape the style and tone of Quentin Tarantino, the audience will be none the wiser and they can breeze by with a hit. Like Tarantino's films there are long drawn out bouts of dialogue and exposition, endless references to pop culture and cult film, a brutally excellent soundtrack, and of course like Tarantino, Zombie's characters never converse like normal people would in the real world. And lest we forget the co-starring appearance of Sheri Moon who is the Uma Thurman to Zombie's Tarantino. "The Devil's Rejects" wisely takes a departure from the mediocre "House of a Thousand Corpses" and is basically just a very violent fugitive flick that channels Peckinpah and Hooper. With three of our psychotic Firefly siblings on the road, they evade the law, and take the time out to torture and humiliate a family in a motel room for a long period of time because... well, just because. Along the way they're hunted by a psychotic sheriff, and his two mercenaries for hire, as played memorably by Diamond Dallas Page and Danny Trejo. While Zombie is normally one who apes from Tobe Hooper, and HG Lewis, there's no denying "The Devil's Rejects" is Zombie's Tarantino effort. It's a really good film, all things considered and is a bonafide fix for a Tarantino craving the same way a burger is a fix for someone craving steak.