# The Devil's Rejects (spoiler discussion)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-rejects-spoiler-discussion/313802 "2005-07-23T15:29:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-rejects-spoiler-discussion/313802/1 "2005-07-23T15:29:42Z")

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I’m a big fan of House of 1000 Corpses; I thought it was inspired, twisted and truly horrifying. When I watched it I thought to myself “This has Rob Zombie’s style written all over it”.

Last night I saw Devil’s Rejects. I’m still trying to decide how I feel about it. It doesn’t have the claustrophobic air that made Corpses so effective for me. And the style of the movie, while dead-on 70’s, seemed to lack Zombie’s personal touch.

What happened to Dr. Satan? He was almost the entire point of the first movie - is he still out in the back fields underground? And what about the other brother of the family - the musclebound guy that went with Baby to get booze in Corpses?

My current impression is that, as opposed to a true sequel, Rejects is almost a alternate timeline version of the Firefly family story.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devils-rejects-spoiler-discussion/313802/2 "2005-11-16T09:25:21Z")

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> [@The world's most deadliest...](#):
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> I’m a big fan of House of 1000 Corpses; I thought it was inspired, twisted and truly horrifying. When I watched it I thought to myself “This has Rob Zombie’s style written all over it”.
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> Last night I saw Devil’s Rejects. I’m still trying to decide how I feel about it. It doesn’t have the claustrophobic air that made Corpses so effective for me. And the style of the movie, while dead-on 70’s, seemed to lack Zombie’s personal touch.
> 
> What happened to Dr. Satan? He was almost the entire point of the first movie - is he still out in the back fields underground? And what about the other brother of the family - the musclebound guy that went with Baby to get booze in Corpses?
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> My current impression is that, as opposed to a true sequel, Rejects is almost a alternate timeline version of the Firefly family story.

Well, I just got the DVD (WOW!)- there’s a deleted scene with Dr. Satan in the hospital, the big muscular brother (Rufus) is glimpsed during the first police raid & is killed in that shootout, there’s no mention at all of Grampa Hugo (the actor who played him died before the DVD of HOUSE came out).

I recommend watching the DVD movie once straight through, then with Sid & Bill & Sherri’s commentary, I haven’t checked Rob’s commentary yet, or “The Making of…” documentary. Good tribute to Matthew McGrory (Tiny).

There’s definitely a major change in tone & in the characters, which is noted in the commentary- Sherri’s manic laugh & Otis’s albinism are gone as is most of his Manson-ranting (he does quote Charles Tex Watson once & goes into quiet thoughtful pauses).

It’s definitely a different vision from HOUSE- but technically is a sequel as Sheriff Wydell is out to avenge his brother killed in HOUSE.