History Film / TheDevilsRejects

* DaylightHorror: Much of the film takes place in the day. The scene where Otis kills Adam and Roy was originally to take place at night, but upon discovering an abandoned chicken farm, Rob Zombie decided that it would be a waste to not show it.

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

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The unholy two succeed in helping Sheriff Wydell capture Otis, Baby, and Spaulding, but even killed one of Charlie Altamont's prostitutes in the process, and they disappear afterwards. However, this finally changed for Rondo in ''3 From Hell'', while the fate of Billy Ray (who didn't appear nor was mentioned in ''3 From Hell'') was left unknown]].

* TheCameo: The woman that Spaulding punches out in order to steal her car? That's PJ Soles, A.K.A. Linda "Totally" Van Der Klok in ''Film/Halloween1978''.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: A ton of them: Otis B. Driftwood, Captain Spaulding, Billy Ray Snapper, John Quincey Wydell. '''Wolf J. Flywheel'''. Bonus points for [[Creator/MarxBrothers the origin]] of many of them, as detailed below.

* DarkerAndEdgier: By comparing this to the previous movie, you'd swear that you're watching two different ones.

** DeconstructedTrope when Otis kills Adam: as the former points out, using your last breath to insult your killer with a PrecisionFStrike doesn't suddenly makes the killer want to run for the hills or really makes your death any less undignified (he ''even escalates'' the brutality of Adam's death as an act of showing him "how heroes die").

* RealityEnsues:
** Those cops the Fireflies killed in the last movie? Yeah, turns out the police ''really'' don't like it when you do that.
** In any other horror movie the Firefly family would have survived long enough whenever the sequels demanded it. This movie doesn't play that KarmaHoudini card. [[spoiler:Or at least it didn't [[Film/ThreeFromHell for a very long time]], and even then they were arrested and Spaulding gets the death penalty.]]
** Being able to overthrow a madman with a gun is something that could only really happen in film. In the real world? Not so much when said madman has been doing this type of sick shit for a very, ''very'' long time.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's no mention of Grandpa Hugo or Dr. Satan from the first film; Rob Zombie decided not to recast the former out of respect for Dennis Fimple, who died shortly after shooting his role in ''House'', while the latter was shot, but cut out of the film as he felt it would’ve been out of place for the type of film he was making, comparing it to putting Chewbacca in the Wild Bunch.

* PrecisionFStrike: For a movie that holds the record for F-bombs, it has an F-strike made all the sweeter by the fact it actually ''lampshades'' the F-strike itself!

* ShoutOut: [[Theatre/AnimalCrackers Captain Spaulding]], [[Film/ANightAtTheOpera Otis B. Driftwood]], and [[Film/DuckSoup Rufus T. Firefly]] are all named after characters played by Groucho in various Creator/MarxBrothers movies. Wolf J. Flywheel is a corruption of Wardolf J. Flywheel, Groucho's character on the radio show ''Shyster, Flywheel and Shyster''.

** Sheriff Wydell is perfectly fine with slapping and chocking Mama Firefly, as well as torturing and beating Baby relentlessly. [[SarcasmMode He]] ''[[SarcasmMode is]]'' [[SarcasmMode the arm of justice after all]].

** Every single member of the Firefly family goes out guns blazing and calling their killers every name under the sun, though.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:For all their monstrosity throughout, the remaining members of the Firefly family seem to have finally gained a conscience at the end, and despite all they've done, the viewer can almost feel sorry for them. Then they come to a roadblock, with dozens of cops preparing to rain bullets down on them ... [[SubvertedTrope and they resolve to go out in one last blaze of glory]].]]
-->'[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Cuz I'm as free as a bird now]]\\
''[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd And this bird you cannot change]]''

* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When hostage Gloria tries to turn the tables on Baby, only to find out [[spoiler:it's been unloaded for some time, and Baby murderers her with a knife after taunting her.]]

* ItWorksBetterwithBullets: When hostage Gloria tries to turn the tables on Baby, only to find out [[spoiler:it's been unloaded for some time, and Baby murderers her with a knife after taunting her.]]

* DevilComplex: When Otis B. Driftwood marks himself as the Devil doing his work to Roy as a mockery of Christian beliefs before he brutally murders him.

** Ultimately averted in''3 From Hell'', which reveals that [[spoiler:they somehow managed to survive.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: The ending scene is set to "Free Bird" [[spoiler:as Baby, Otis, and Spaulding ride to their deaths at a police barricade.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: This movie removes the one the Fireflies carried in ''House of 1000 Corpses''. It ''starts'' with the police surrounding the house with full intent to TakeNoPrisoners and [[spoiler:ends with the ones that escaped that confrontation getting blown away by a roadblock.]] However,''3 From Hell'' reveals that [[spoiler:they somehow managed to survive.]]

** Ultimately averted in ''3 From Hell'', which reveals that [[spoiler:the titular three survived the shootout.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: This movie removes the one the Fireflies carried in ''House of 1000 Corpses''. It ''starts'' with the police surrounding the house with full intent to TakeNoPrisoners and [[spoiler:ends with the ones that escaped that confrontation getting blown away by a roadblock.]]

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

-->'''Otis:''' ({{beat}}) That's what they all say. ''"Fuck you"''! Well it ain’t gonna save ya. It don’t scare me none and it don’t suddenly make you a ''fucking'' hero!

** In any other horror movie the Firefly family would have survived long enough whenever the sequels demanded it. This movie doesn't play that KarmaHoudini card. [[spoiler:Or at least it didn't [[Film/ThreeFromHell for a very long time]], and even then they were arrested and Spaulding [{SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome gets the death penalty]].]]

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: The Firefly family at the very end of the movie.]]

-->'''Otis:''' ({{beat}}) That's what they all say. "''Fuck you''"! Well it ain’t gonna save ya. It don’t scare me none and it don’t suddenly make you a ''fucking'' hero!

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:Zigzagged The film ends with the remaining members of the Firefly family driving straight into a police blockade engaging in a shootout where they are apparently killed. Film/ThreeFromHell shows that they survived that encounter.]]

* BadassBoast: ''"I am the devil. And I am here to do the devil’s work"'', curtesy of Otis.

-->'''Adam:''' "Please mister stop...please, stop".
-->'''Otis:''' "Stop? Bitch, I Have ''Just'' Started! Y’know I was gonna take it easy on you, boy, but you brought this down on yourself. You had to come all fuckin’, big stick, walkin’ tall like a big fucking hero. Got yourself to blame hero, look at you now, hero, you’re gonna fucking bleed to death!"
-->'''Adam:''' ''*spits blood into Otis’ face*'' Fuck You!
-->'''Otis:''' ({{beat}}) Thats what they all say. ''Fuck You''! Well it ain’t gonna save ya. It don’t scare me none and it don’t suddenly make you a ''Fucking'' Hero!