The sophomore effort of rocker-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie is a direct followup to his House of 1000 Corpses. (To have said "sophomoric effort" would have veered from fact into flattery.) The further adventures of a yokel family of mass murderers, whose aliases are lifted from Groucho Marx characters, carom between a kind of geeky jokery and a mile-wide mean streak. The writer-director sets his sights low -- early Tobe Hooper and Wes Craven would be two of his pet bloodhounds, his pointers -- and shoots even lower, with telephoto closeups, spastic camera movement, colorless color, and all-around shoddiness. Looked at in the right light, his success was assured. Better, though, not to look at all. With Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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