{"id":13325,"date":"2019-12-27T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13325"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:42:41","slug":"3-from-hell-2019-rob-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13325","title":{"rendered":"3 From Hell (2019, Rob Zombie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our three lead murderers were definitively killed at the end of <em>The Devil&#8217;s Rejects<\/em>, gunned down in slow-motion, so how will Zombie make a sequel?  They&#8217;re not dead, they were just wounded, and all better now!  Sid Haig, alas, didn&#8217;t stay better for long, so he gets a brief scene before being replaced by Baby and Firefly&#8217;s half-brother Midnight Wolfman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/3hell1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A decade after the previous movie ends, Wolfman springs Firefly (they murder a cameoing Danny Trejo along the way), then they threaten the cartoonishly facial-haired warden into freeing Baby, and the three run off to Mexico.  That&#8217;s about a half-hour&#8217;s worth of movie &#8211; the rest is them deciding to fuck with strangers, then murdering them, or getting in trouble because strangers recognize them, then murdering them.  It&#8217;s not a bad movie, surely a step up from the terrible <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11535\">31<\/a><\/em>, but it&#8217;s pretty unnecessary, and there&#8217;s no tension &#8211; the stakes are always low in a movie where no lives matter.  Zombie exercises his TV\/film texture fetish in the news footage covering the escaped outlaws, and builds to a big showdown in Mexico when the son of Danny Trejo comes with twenty armed dudes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/3hell2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/190\">The Howling<\/a><\/em> star Dee Wallace plays the vindictive prison guard in chage of Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie, always good in these things).  Richard Edson (Sonic Youth, <em>Stranger Than Paradise<\/em>) is the dude in Mexico who puts them up (and turns them in).  Bill Moseley was in about 40 movies between Zombie&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/380\">Halloween<\/a><\/em> and this, mostly crappy horrors, and Wolfman Richard Brake played the only person Cage doesn&#8217;t kill in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12846\">Mandy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Edson:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/3hell3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our three lead murderers were definitively killed at the end of The Devil&#8217;s Rejects, gunned down in slow-motion, so how will Zombie make a sequel? They&#8217;re not dead, they were just wounded, and all better now! Sid Haig, alas, didn&#8217;t stay better for long, so he gets a brief scene before being replaced by Baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1330,137,1071,181],"class_list":["post-13325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-clowns","tag-mexico","tag-rob-zombie","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13359,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions\/13359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}