![]() ![]() "3 from Hell" is a few different movies in one, starting as a lovingly crafted '70s cable news cycle as Zombie catches the audience up on things so far. He’s gonna to have to release Baby if he wants to get out with his life, and then it’s just a matter of how three murderous fugitives from justice lay low with the world on the lookout for them. When he returns home from work one evening and finds his wife held captive by Otis and Foxy, he knows he’s about to fall hard. ![]() The warden of the prison housing the rejects (Jeff Daniel Phillips, just loving life as a weasel) starts sweating after Otis’ break out because he knows he’ll be coming back for Baby and it’s only a matter of how. A butch guard ( Dee Wallace) has made it her mission to break Baby no matter the means. Baby ( Sheri Moon Zombie) is shaking up her wing of the prison in high style. Otis ( Bill Moseley) has his sights set on escape and has enlisted his cousin Winslow Foxworth Coltrane ( Richard Brake, our Timothy Carey) in his attempt. Captain Spaulding (Haig) succumbs to health troubles a few years into his life sentence, but not before delivering one of Zombie’s best monologues. In order to make the latest chapter in their saga, Zombie has to literally resurrect them. When last we saw "The Devil’s Rejects," the trio of sadists who tore through his first two films, they were being gunned down by sheriff’s deputies in a convertible while “Free Bird“ wailed on the soundtrack. Every hobbling he receives from the world of film financing and distribution he makes into a kind of slick strength. It’s the first Rob Zombie movie that feels as subversive in its logistics as in its violence since "House of 1,000 Corpses." The world doesn’t seem to want Zombie to make his art, at least not with his full range of resources, but there’s no keeping him down. The great Austin Stoker has a cameo as a newsreader in the very beginning, Danny Trejo appears for a matter of seconds and the legendary Sid Haig, currently fighting for his life in an ICU after an accident, only has about ten minutes of screen time. Jason Blum funded his 2012 film "Lords of Salem" on a lark while writing checks to a dozen other horror auteurs after the sudden success of " Paranormal Activity," then Zombie had to crowdfund his carney horror "31," and now three years later here’s "3 from Hell," shown as a Fathom Event like a religious service or an opera performance that seems to have been shot whenever his cast of character actors had a spare minute. It’s an inauspicious return to the storyline that made his name as a filmmaker.
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