Cult horror director Rob Zombie shares a throwback post featuring behind-the-scenes images from his 2005 film The Devil’s Rejects. The low-budget, R-rated movie was the middle-part of Zombie’s Firefly Trilogy, along with House of 1000 Corpses and 3 From Hell. The Devil’s Rejects followed the violent rivalry between the murderous Firefly family and the ruthless Sheriff Wydell. j5n49

House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects tattoos earn director Rob Zombie's approval. The heavy metal musician turned horror movie director is highly regarded for his directorial debut in 2003, House Of 1000 Corpses, which was the first film in his Firefly trilogy which also includes 2005's The Devil's Rejects and 2019's 3 from Hell. Zombie is also known for his 2007 remake of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, which is the director's highest-grossing film to date despite its less favorable reception.

Rob Zombie's Firefly trilogy follows the many crimes of the Firefly family, but not all made it to all the movies, and here’s every actor who appears in all three movies and who they play in them. Few musicians have made a successful career transition into the world of filmmaking, and among those is Rob Zombie, who began his career in music with the band White Zombie. Rob Zombie began making his way through the film industry in the late 1990s, when he was set to direct The Crow: 2037, but after some obstacles, he went on to make a different project: House of 1000 Corpses.

Given the massive popularity of Netflix's docies Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, it's only natural to think about some of the most terrifying cinematic horror movie hotels and motels ever recorded on camera. The sad, tragic, and unnerving tale of Elisa Lam is a reminder that horrible things can happen when away from home and in the confines of a strange place with a sordid past and populated with even odder characters.

Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects features a brand new Firefly family home that was filmed at Sable Ranch, which sadly burned to the ground in 2016 due to a rampant wildfire that swept through Santa Clarita, California. The shift from the Universal Studios Hollywood lot to the ranch was a major marker of the director's affinity for gore. When the Firefly family returned for their third and final movie, Sable Ranch was notably missing due to the fire's destruction.

There is one major reason why Rob Zombie's Firefly family are scarier than any slasher villain, and it has almost nothing to do with the villainous acts they commit. Instead, it has to do with the way they are viewed as sympathetic villains. It's been said that the Firefly family became very sympathetic villains after House of 1000 Corpses, which was a deliberate decision on Rob Zombie's part. The fact that the Fireflys are such sympathetic villains is precisely what makes them scarier than slasher villains. Slasher villains are rarely viewed as idols to be ired, with some possible exceptions being the wise-cracking Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and the moralistic John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, from Saw. Ultimately, audiences are always given a way to root against these villains—but not as much with the Firefly family.

In the eyes of most, writer/director Rob Zombie's masterpiece is still The Devil's Rejects, which drew inspiration from four classic movies. One movie it would seem The Devil's Rejects took few cues from, surprisingly, is its purported prequel House of 1000 Corpses. While villains Otis, Baby, and Captain Spaulding are ported over from House of 1000 Corpses to Devil's Rejects, becoming antiheroes along the way, the two films are an entirely different type of horror, and bear little resemblance to one another.

Rob Zombie's hyper-violent road-thriller The Devil's Rejects turned 15 years old this past July. In addition to becoming a box-office success at the time of its release, earning more than $20 million globally on a $7 million budget, Zombie's sophomore feature is also one of his most well-received movies among critics. In 2006, Zombie won a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for most Killer Movie (Scariest Film) for the sequel.

Rob Zombie’s Firefly Trilogy has followed the psychopathic family from the cartoonishly over-the-top to the gritty and horrifying across three films from 2003 to 2019. Encoming House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and 3 From Hell, the Firefly Trilogy has crossed stylistic and genre lines to garner a cult following in the horror world. However, with so much time between films and significant stylistic changes in between, some story details seem to have fallen through the cracks, and certain plot holes have developed.