Rob Zombie's pitch-perfect evocation of '70s horror films about monstrous families and the unfortunates who cross their path is one of a handful of sequels that both improve on their sources and play perfectly as stand-alones. Picking up immediately after HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (2001) ends, it begins as Texas Ranger John Wydell (William Forsythe) mounts a raid on the ramshackle home of the Firefly family, serial murderers who somehow went unnoticed until their grotesque kidnapping and murder of two teenage couples. Three Fireflys escape the ensuing shootout: Mother Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook, replacing Karen Black) is arrested, while psycho siblings Otis and Baby (Bi...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
101 mins