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Three from Hell
USA 2019
produced by Mike Elliott, Rob Zombie, Greg Holstein (executive), Jonathan Saba (executive) for Capital Arts Entertainment, Spookshow International
directed by Rob Zombie
starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Emilio Rivera, Danny Trejo, Clint Howard, Daniel Roebuck, Jeff Daniel Phillips, David Ury, Dee Wallace, Dot-Marie Jones, Sean Whalen, Tom Papa, Pancho Moler, Kevin Jackson, Richard Riehle, Austin Stoker, Amir Abdalla, Rian Bishop, Billy Blair, Chaz Bono, Tomas Boykin, Flor de Maria Chahua, Todd Davis, Christopher B. Duncan, Richard Edson, Alexandra Ella, Jackie S. Garcia, Luis Richard Gomez, Stacie Greenwell, Henrie Hill, Jan Hoag, Sylvia Jefferies, Lucinda Jenney, Tracey Leigh, Mariano 'Big Dawg' Mendoza, Marco Morales, Bill Oberst jr, Steven Michael Quezada, Anny Rosario, Christine Weatherup, Rob Welsh, Duane Whitaker, Matthew Willig
written by Rob Zombie, music by Zeuss
Firefly clan
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The murderous Firefly clan has been captured by the police - and has
become the latest pop culture craze in the process. And while Captain
Spaulding (Sid Haig) is soon executed, and young Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie)
is doing life while killing her way through her fellow inmates, Otis (Bill
Mosely) is working on a chain gang, but has already arranged for his
"release" - which means his cousin Winslow (Richard Brake)
making an attack on the chain gang, with the both of them gunning down
guards and inmates alike. Then the two device a very violent plan to
spring Baby from prison ... and before you know it, the three are on a
blood-drenched way to Mexico. In Mexico, they put up camp in a dingy
hotel in a two horse village, and at first everything's fine ... until
Otis is recognized as the killer of Aquarius' (Emilio Rivera) brother
(Danny Trejo) back on the cain gang, and he and his gang storm the hotel
in Mexican wrestling masks. But Sebastian (Pancho Moler), a little person
Baby has befriended, warns our antiheroes just in time, so all sails are
set for a bloody shoot-out ... Indie horror favourite Bill Oberst jr
plays a hunter who almost gets to shoot Otis Firefly - before getting his
brain blown away instead. Now there's one thing that Rob Zombie
certainly isn't, and that's a great storyteller - in fact, the plot of
this film is nothing more than several genre mainstays thrown together, no
matter if they fit, make narrative sense, are particularly clever or
whatever. In other words, storywise this film is a clichéed mess. But
that doesn't mean the film is nothing but a mess, as while it lacks
narratively at the same time it's a wild ride that takes no prisoners,
feeds on exaggerations, and is much more interested in being the wild
child in the room than giving much of a toss about structure and the like
... and it works, too, as Rob Zombie has turned the fun factor on max,
with the movie not taking itself all that seriously, actually mining the
material for sick jokes, and pacing the whole thing so breathlessly one
doesn't get too much of a chance to think about story arcs and the like to
begin with. That all doesn't make Three from Hell a masterpiece for sure -
but a near perfect party movie.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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