House of 1000 Corpses
In a repulsion moving picture , the strongest element of the pic will always be the scoundrel , so throughout the course of his career as a movie maker , Rob Zombiehas managed to call on the redneck into the literary genre ’s scariest .
His first film , House of 1000 remains , enclose audiences to the homicidal , backwoods Firefly clan in 2003 . Zombie ’s unique ' seventy exploitive filmmaking style lends itself perfectly to the grittier , more wild , hyper - sexualized prospect of the human race and the blend of all three make an unbelievable villain . In this typesetter’s case , villains are plural instead of a standalone entity as the Fireflies are very much the family that slays together and stays together .
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Zombie is not the first horror director to tackle this trope . Rednecks , hillbillies , backwoods mutants and similar have been featured in many a memorable film . FromDeliverancetoWrong Turn , there ’s a very existent view to these goliath because they really exist in real life . Tobe Hooper took his aspiration for Leatherface in his masterpiece , The Texas Chainsaw Massacrefrom notorious serial killer Ed Gein , who wore the skin of his human victim . Since many other colossus in horror are supernatural in some capacity , it ’s refreshing to see a different look at what a monster can be and how the the true is often times foreign than fiction .
The Firefly Clan Are Chillingly Realistic (And Oddly Likable)
Despite them being cold - blooded grampus , the Firefly familyhave a unknown cult come after that ’s almost as acute as fan know for Zombie and his body of work . This level of hero worship is n’t rare with repugnance villains , but it ’s interesting to see people worship the great unwashed who are wrestle in such brutal , unrelenting means that are whole realistic . There are no regenerative world power at work here , nobody is a pipe dream fiend , and there ’s no cuss , cult , orpossessioninvolved . The Firefly family are a gang of pagan whose fierce ways not only appropriate them to enrich their bond with each other , but are a sportswoman and secret plan that make them the redneck hunters with a interest in bag human trophies instead of something much more socially acceptable .
They are crass , crude , and link sexual violence with their other atrocities that involve turning someone into a ' fish son ' by sew his bisected torso and mutilated body onto a huge fish tail for art . All aspects of social propriety are proceed , and it ’s vindicated that they are outlaws of a very unlike form . Otis Driftwood ( Bill Moseley ) , the adopted big comrade of the family , is a sexual sadist who loves to create ' freaks ' out of his victim by take apart them and pose them for Captain Spaulding ( Sid Haig ) , who operate a roadsidehaunted attraction(and makes some excellent deep-fried chicken ) . Baby Firefly ( Sheri Moon Zombie ) is bubbly , a unblushing flirt , and has a tumultuous kinship with her brother Otis , even though they ’d take a bullet train for each other if they had to .
The other basal members of the Firefly family , " Mama " , Tiny , and Rufus met their demise , with Mama and Tiny pass the franchise inHouse of 1000 Corpsesand Rufus doing so inThe Devil ’s Rejects . Spaulding , Otis , and Baby are the primary opponent ofThe Devil ’s Rejectsand3 From Hell , with Spaulding taking a less role in the latter which was supplement by Richard Brake as " Foxy " Coltrane .
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The Real Monsters Are Human
In31 , the premise was somewhat off the rails , with the place setting being a traveling carnival where the workers terminate up being attacked by a unusual chemical group of the great unwashed who imprison them and inform them that they ’re to take part in a game call " 31 " . The rule are wide-eyed : they ’ll be attacked unrelentingly by psychopathic sickos for 12 hours and if they outlive , they escape . bet are hedged on the likelihood of specific " players " survival as an bestow bonus for the spectators . While this motion picture did n’t do well with critic or fans , Zombie still delivered redneck craziness andtons of gorein his same greasy , shock fest dash .
The core of what makes Zombie ’s villains so monstrous is that they are relatable , they are reminiscent of literal people we may screw , at least to some degree , and they seem larger - than - life in a way that ’s attainable anddoesn’t experience wholly fictional .
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