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Halloween: A Quartet in their young to mid-twenties (Chris Hardwick,
Erin Daniels, Jennifer Jostyn, Rainn Wilson) are on the search for
off-beat roadshow attractions in America, & on their trip they meet
freakshow-/gasstation-/chickengrill-owner & Dark Clown Captain
Spaulding (Sid Haig), who, apart from giving them a tour through his
place, also gives them the idea to look for demented surgeon Doctor
Satan, who is supposed top have died around here ... Soon they meet up
with blond bimbo hitchhiker Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon), who introduces
them to the rest of the Firefly family (among their ranks Bill Moseley
& Karen Black (brrrr)), who just delight in being freaky (you know,
wearing leather masks, kidnapping & killing 5 cheerleaders, ... the
usual stuff), so the atmosphere of this get-together soon is poised
& the youngsters leave, but instead of letting them escape, the
Fireflysattack them, capture them, kill some of them, having the rest of
them put into a coffin & lowered down the well, where soon enough
one girl is the sole survivor, & she should live to regret it ... in
the caves adjoining the well, the Fireflys have built their own personal
version of hell, with each cave showing images more bizarre &
menaces more nightmarish ... luckily the girl escapes to the surface,
& is there picked up by Captain Spaulding in his car & driven to
safety ... well, no, back to the family actually !
Rather obviously, Rob Zombie wanted to make something like the
ultimate trash-horror-movie - he failed though. This is just a
patchwork of gross scenes, held together by some trippy sequences, all
spliced together rather at random, though. Furthermore, he borrows quite
freely (& very obviously) from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but
also from sources as diverse as Creature from the Black Lagoon, Evil
Dead, Hellraiser, Munsters go Home, Nightbreed
or The Wolf Man, without putting it into a proper context though,
thus the movie remains utterly pointless. It's not a total failure, though, at least it's
competently made (& some horror fans might even find it delighting),
it's more like a failed experiment.
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