History Film / TheDevilsRejects

* NotSoDifferent: Wydell and the Fireflys.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Captain Spaulding trying to protect Baby during interrogation.]]

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Arguably progresses to EvilVersusEvil during the course of the movie. Ultimately very few named characters and no major characters in the film wind up being entirely sympathetic. A film where the protagonists are vicious serial killers and their opposition is a religiously fanatical RabidCop [[spoiler: seeking vengeance]] is ultimately how the story winds up. A telling example of the fact that this film [[SlidingScaleofIdealismVsCynicism leans very heavily to the cynical end of the spectrum]] is that all the named characters that are not in some way involved with either the [[AxCrazy Firefly family]] in some manner or the police wind up being innocents get caught up in the situation and wind up dying horribly.

* ChekhovsGunman:[[spoiler: Tiny appears at the near end of the film to kill Sheriff Wydell.]]

* EvilVersusEvil: The Firefly family vs. Sheriff Wydell.

-->'''Otis B. Driftwood'''

''The Devil's Rejects'' (2005) is a {{horror}} {{film}} directed by RobZombie. It is the sequel to ''HouseOf1000Corpses'', picking up two years later as the remaining members of the psychotic Firefly family are on the run from a posse of of State Troopers who want them to answer for over 75 murders and disappearances over the past several years.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL Alumnus!]]: [[RockAndRollHighSchool Riff Randall and Principal Togar]] are both victims of carjackings in the early part of the film.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Arguably progresses to EvilVersusEvil during the course of the movie. Ultimately very few named characters and no major characters in the film wind up being entirely sympathetic. A film where the protagonists are vicious serial killers and their opposition is a religiously fanatical RabidCop [[spoiler: seeking vengeance]] is ultimately how the story winds up. A telling example of the fact that this film [[SlidingScaleofIdealismVsCynicism leans very heavily to the cynical end of the spectrum]] is that all the named characters that are not in some way involved with either the [[AxCrazy Firefly family]] in some manner or the police wind up being innocents get caught up in the situation and wind up dying horribly.

* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]]:[[spoiler: Tiny]]

* RabidCop: Sheriff Wydell.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Arguably progresses to EvilVersusEvil during the course of the movie. Ultimately very few named characters and no major characters in the film wind up being entirely sympathetic. A film where the protagonists are vicious serial killers and their opposition is a religiously fanatical CowboyCop [[spoiler: seeking vengeance]] is ultimately how the story winds up. A telling example of the fact that this film [[SlidingScaleofIdealismVsCynicism leans very heavily to the cynical end of the spectrum]] is that all the named characters that are not in some way involved with either the [[AxeCrazy Firefly family]] in some manner or the police wind up being innocents get caught up in the situation and wind up dying horribly.

* TheSavageSouth: Where else can you find [[spoiler: a family of killers, a freak show made of real former people, and]] [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking Captain Spaulding's Fried Chicken]]?

* OneSceneWonder: Robert Trebor as Marty Walker, the aformentioned film scholar.

* [[{{HeyItsThatGuy}} Hey, It's That ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL Alumnus!]]: [[RockAndRollHighSchool Riff Randall and Principal Togar]] are both victims of carjackings in the early part of the film.

* EvilVsEvil: The Firefly family vs. Sheriff Wydell.

* [[{{HeyItsThatGuy}} Hey, It's That ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL Alumnus!]]: Riff Randall and Principal Togar are both victims of carjackings in the early part of the film.

* VillainsOutShopping: Enjoying some "Tutti-fucking-Frutti!"

* BerserkButton: If you ever, '''EVER''' say a derogatory word about Elvis Aaron Presley in Sheriff Wydell's presence, he will '''KICK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU'''.

* LaserGuidedKarma: After spending most of the movie (and untold years before that) torturing, raping and killing, the three Fireflys are captured and tortured and beaten by Sheriff Wydell. [[spoiler: after escaping thanks to Tiny, they don't get very far, thanks to a roadblock of pissed off cops with guns. They go out fighting, but still go out.]]

* CompleteMonster: The Fireflys, Otis, and Captain Spaulding.

* BlondesAreEvil: Baby
* BolivianArmyEnding: The surviving trio go out like this.

* ColdBloodedTorture: The Firefly clan is notable for engaging in this quite a lot. The sheriff turns it back on them towards the end.
* CompleteMonster: The Firefly family, Otis, and Captain Spaulding.

* FlayingAlive: Well let's just say Otis has quite a hobby.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: The Firefly clan.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The ending scene is set to "Freebird" [[spoiler: as the Fireflies ride to their deaths at a police barricade.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Several Firefly members are killed, captured or disappear after the opening shootout with police.

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Did I stutter, bitch?
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: The Fireflys, natch.

* BeserkButton: If you ever, '''EVER''' say a derogatory word about Elvis Aaron Presley in Sheriff Wydell's presence, he will '''KICK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU'''.

-->'''"I happen to be a self-proclaimed Marx Brothers expert, if I say so myself."'''

* {{Defictionalization}}: A supposed Banjo & Sullivan GreatestHitsAlbum was released as an official tie-in with the movie. In reality it's an AffectionateParody of 70's country by Jesse Dayton.

* [[VillainsOutShopping Villains Out Enjoying Some Tutti-fucking-Frutti!]]

* '''BlackComedy''': The movie is hilarious when treated as this.

''[=~The Devil's Rejects~=]'' (2005) is a {{horror}} {{film}} directed by RobZombie. It is the sequel to ''HouseOf1000Corpses'', picking up two years later as the remaining members of the psychotic Firefly family are on the run from a posse of of State Troopers who want them to answer for over 75 murders and disappearances over the past several years.