 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2019 release 3 from hell. Yes, the Rob Zombie film now First of all, I want to say I'm sorry. I'm gonna do the best I can with this, but I'm physically not feeling well I'm I've been fighting something for the past few days So I got to get this review out because it is showing up This film is going up on shutter as a shutter exclusive on Thursday February 13th, so when I'm dropping this it's in two days, and I promise shutter I would get it up So thank you very much shutter for the screener, but everyone, please excuse Excuse me how my voice sounds if I have to cough during this or clear my nose or whatever And the fact that like my eyes are glassy and puffy and yeah, just been fighting some stuff But I'll do the best I can for you guys So obviously this is written and directed by Rob Zombie I believe that Rob Zombie only Writes his the stuff that he directs. I was thinking about this before I started recording and I was like I can't think of anything that he's directed that he hasn't written It seems like he just likes to have kind of full control over his material, which you know can't blame him There's some great directors who do that like Chamwalk Park Phenomenal one of my favorites So Rob Zombie's done such films as 31 Lord's of Salem the Halloween films one and two his remakes House of a thousand corpses and devils rejects, which obviously house of a thousand corpses and devils rejects Were the first two films in this trilogy and three from hell is the third film now Excuse me. I'll well I'll get in that a little bit later. I was gonna say something else It had three million dollar budget and it actually ended up making ten point two million dollars in the box office Which that's a pretty good return It originally was gonna have a two-night theater release through fathom events And then it did well on those first two nights So they added a third night to the for the showings so I Guess it overperformed for what they were expecting which doesn't really surprise me that much because there are a lot of kind I don't know if it's quite rabid Rob Zombie fans, but there are a lot of Strong were Rob Zombie fans out there. He's a very polarizing director It's you have a lot of people who either hate him or they love him I'm actually kind of in the middle where like I like some of his stuff But I don't like a lot of his other stuff. So like for example, like I hated 31. I thought that was terrible I really hated his Halloween movies. I Really didn't like house of a thousand corpses and tell the very like last 15 minutes Which I thought were really good But the rest of it I didn't like Devil's rejects. I thought was really good definitely his best film so I was hoping that he would be able to kind of stick with that for three from hell and Lords of Salem actually I heard a lot of crap about Lords of Salem But I actually liked it Maybe part of the reason was that D Wallace was in it and D Wallace shows up in three from hell too So that's a nice surprise. That's that's one of the other things with this film is that there are these cameos I already you know kind of said D Wallace is in it, but There are some other cameos. I'm not gonna say who else shows up But just watch the film and you'll see you'll be surprised and have fun with it I just so you know, this is a no spoilers review since it's about to go up on shutter as an exclusive So you can safely go ahead if you're not or if you if you haven't seen the film yet And you will after this video. It'll be safe. You know, I'm not gonna ruin anything So post production of this film actually ended up being delayed by five months so that Rob Zombie could do his Musical tour with Marilyn Manson, which is kind of a weird thing because you would think that you would just like want to get it done but You know, I mean the music industry. I guess you got a tour when you got a tour, especially if you want to make money Sid Hague was actually originally supposed to have a bigger role in this film But he actually couldn't commit to having a much bigger role because of his health issues So the original script had him in a much larger capacity It was rewritten then to include Richard break his character, which is like the midnight wolf man I think is what it would he calls himself in the film which Going into it and knowing that information I was kind of like that's I feel like it's gonna feel like he's like kind of shoehorned in there Which in a way it does a little bit like the introduction of him seems like he shoehorned in But after that I feel like he feels good in the film Like his character feels good in the film Richard break in particular He did a great job in this He was one of my favorite parts of the film to be honest and especially the interplay between Bill Mosley and Richard break the way those two interacted so the midnight wolf man and Otis just their interactions were great, and I wanted more of that. That's what I really liked about it Sid actually passed away shortly after the release of this film. You do see him in this a little bit, but I Mean, you know You're not gonna see much of him just because You know he passed and he wasn't doing well And it sucks because by all accounts he was an amazing individual a very very nice person And I've never heard anything bad about him and I talked to people who go to conventions all the time And he was very active at conventions and everyone who met him said he was a awesome awesome person So really sucks to you know lose someone like that So the opening music for this is actually very over the top in my opinion, and they do kind of a really horrible looking Slow-motion grainy panning shot that like I get it like I understand the aesthetic that he's going for especially in the beginning of it And the aesthetic of it actually changes like the way the film itself looks it's very like gritty and grainy and like 70s in the beginning and then it gets updated and it's actually like HD after Maybe the first like five minutes Ish and like I get why that is and you'll understand as well But but like the way they did the initial shot of that like slow-motion panning It looks terrible like you can't see much It just looks like garbage and they should have they should have used a different shot zombie should use something else Instead as his opening shot. It just looks bad The explanation of the ending of the devil's rejects and how we get to three from hell is very poor It's very poor. It's very contrived. It's very stupid in my opinion, but some people may feel differently, but In all fairness you do just kind of get past that to be honest like I didn't get too hung up on that I was like, okay premise accepted Let's move forward and that's okay. You know with with some of these films. You just kind of have to suspend belief Just to get through the film and enjoy the ride The super 70s feel this film with it being like gritty and dirty it looks good It's really nice, but then again, you know, like that's that's Rob Zombie's aesthetic. That's what he really likes to do I know he's very heavily inspired by like Toby Hooper Obviously checked of Texas chainsaw massacre fame, but also did poltergeist which a lot of people don't know Sucks Hooper got screwed a lot in in the industry and that's just that's sad But anyway, that's a whole another thing But yeah, so he pulls a lot from Toby Hooper's aesthetic and Texas Chainsaw massacre and you can see that in this film There's a heavy comparison to the Manson family in this and while I was watching it like that occurred to me and then I was like Is it like that in Devil's Rejects and House of a Thousand Corpses? I did a review of Devil's Rejects and it wasn't that long ago, but I can't remember that kind of relationship and how they portrayed it I don't remember it being very Manson family like in Devil's Rejects and House of a Thousand Corpses It's been a long time since I watched that so I definitely can't remember that one But that does bring up that if you want to see my review for Devil's Rejects It is on my channel so check that out I'll do I should do House of a Thousand Corpses at some point too It was good to see Sid Sid Hagg and he did he actually did a really good job to be honest the portion He's in which like I said, it's not a lot I thought he did an exceptional job, especially for like knowing how bad his health was at that point He really he brought it like he did the best he could he came to work And he gave it his all and that was just nice to see it's like a went out on top type of moment And and that was kind of heartwarming the introduction of Richard Brake's character is It's solid in a way, but they make him They make him related to the family like that's not It's not really a spoiler. I mean I guess minorly it is it doesn't have much of to anything It doesn't have much of anything to do with the actual story of it. It's just like this is how we Justify bringing this character in It's just too convenient. It feels way way way too convenient And it's it and contrived and dumb in my opinion that they introduce him as like a cousin but it's I don't know like the the way that he he he meets up with Otis Is fine and that works just fine, but the fact that they made him a cousin is just That's the dumb thing like just drop that and it's all good Like i'm i'm totally fine like he could just be the this other dude who's a psycho as well And wants to join in the fun like that's fine that would really work And like I said like Richard Brake did a really good job And I really liked this and it liked him in the film And i'm surprised and happy that his character didn't feel blah Since he was kind of like a last minute change Um, so the first the first time sherry moon zombie spoke in this film. I rolled my eyes So hard, um I don't like her at all. I think she's a terrible actress Uh, especially with this role of baby firefly. I think she's always played that role So over the top and so ridiculous and so annoying that I cannot stand it. I cannot stand her And the problem is that's kind of how the character was set up in House of the thousand corpses and then it gets carried over to devil's rejects And it's even worse in three from hell. I feel like she is at her most annoying and Awful in three from hell Sorry, you do get a little bit used to it though as it goes on But it's just like her character doesn't make a whole lot of sense because she'll like she oscillates between Being totally unhinged for a very significant amount of time and then being more serious and much less unhinged And it's just I mean you could see it as being kind of you know split personality or whatever, but Or like the switch goes on for psycho mode versus, you know more docile But I don't know her her character just has too many weird swings And she she distracts with The film she distracts the film in the audience with just really dumb things That have nothing to do with the story Terrible, I just I can't I can't stand sherrymoon zombie. The other thing is I hate hate hate nepotism in film That's one of the worst things in my opinion. So when Directors in particular are putting their wives in roles not because they deserve them, but just because that's their wife I hate it and that's clearly what's happened with Rob zombie. He puts his wife in things just because It's his wife. She's not suited for the roles. I do think that if these films would be Substitute if you would substitute someone else for baby firefly I would like these films a lot more in my opinion. It's just see she is Hard hard to handle hard to handle It's nice to see bill bill mosley enjoy a role for a change At least lately the last time I saw him. He was in the film bore also on shutter and he Did not look like he was having fun and he totally phoned that one in So the last time I had seen him prior to this film. I was like, wow He is not really feeling it. Um, I wonder what's going on. So then seeing him in three from hell It's obvious you can tell from his acting and the way he He brings energy the character of Otis again that he's having fun He was enjoying it and he's not phoning in at all. So that was really good to see Rob zombie writes some pretty cringy dialogue at times like pretty cringy The dialogue is it's pretty up and down to be honest Like some of it's really good and then some is really terrible and it's a real mix It's kind of this roller coaster throughout the film of like, oh pretty good lines and then ooh. Oh my gosh. What? Uh, sometimes it lands and others. It's like he's trying way too hard And stuff doesn't even make sense like he tries to make a lot of um have a lot of like metaphors in in what in what his characters say or analogies and it's just A lot of them don't work. They just don't land. They don't even really make sense So I don't know his writings were all up and down Zombie likes to put a lot of filler dialogue and filler character interactions in his films Some play well, but most of them don't yeah, this is the whole thing We're like the film is like wait, how long is it? I was gonna put I was gonna talk about it later So the film's an hour and 55 minutes long First of all An hour and 55 minutes for a horror film You've got to be really good In order for that to feel appropriate and in order for people to stay engaged with a film like that for for that long for an hour and 55 minutes This film does not justify that runtime at all And part of the problem why we get to the hour and 55 is what I was just talking about rob zombie puts a lot of Filler dialogue and a lot of filler character interactions in it feels like he just kind of does whatever he wants Which you know, he's the one writing it and directing it. So I guess you know, that makes sense to a degree, but it's like he doesn't Let anyone else see the script And like give him notes or or edit it or anything like that Or or he does and they and he just says no to it because there are so many Moments where you're like Why are we going on this like side tangent or like why is this diatribe happening? It has nothing to do with the story or what's going on and it just It's just ridiculous and some of them are thrown in there just because they're intentionally weird And they just don't work some are thrown in there because they're supposed to be funny and they're just not funny So it's like it just seems like a lot of like Rob zombie chuckling to himself with a lot of this stuff and you're just like Okay, let's have a little self control Kind of rain that stuff in here, buddy because you're making this to be financially viable I'm I'm I'm saying just saying Um, there's way too much time spent on sharing moon zombie in this baby firefly has way too much screen time in this It's unwarranted especially with what's going on in the story in my opinion And there is not enough of Otis and the midnight wolf man Richard break and bill mosley because like I said those two play off each other so well in this film honestly, if they would have just deleted Baby firefly from the film if they would have just killed her off immediately And it was just bill mosley and Richard break It would have been a lot better in my opinion like a lot better And then you could have shaved the runtime down significantly as well. So just saying There's some good small roles because of who the actors are in this and this kind of gets back to, you know, some of the kind of cameo-ish Performances that show up in this. So I'm not going to say anything else. I know I already already said D Wallace I got a little overzealous there. I love D Wallace, but She has a larger role than most of the cameo-ish roles. So Rob zombie sure loves using slow motion And I put pro tip don't use slow motion on a scene where you intend to use cg blood He does that a few times in this. First of all, it does get annoying like how much slow motion rob zombie uses in this film Um, some people may not you know mind that it's something that bothers me when you just keep using the same device over and over and over again So like continual slow motion. I'm like, oh my gosh. This isn't the matrix dude And then specifically like I said when you're doing slow motion and you're using cg blood That's a big no-no because that cg blood is going to look terrible Using cg blood at all. It has to be used when it's a quick take You're not going to be able to focus on it for very long. It's and see what's really going on there But unfortunately when you're doing a slow motion and you put cg blood in there That's exactly what the audience is seeing. They are focusing for a while and they're seeing how fake and bad it looks So just saying And the ending is actually kind of whatever it's a I didn't feel like the ending was like a good ending. I didn't feel like it was particularly bad either It was just kind of like a okay It ended You know, and that's kind of the film in general. It's just kind of It's just a continuation of mayhem in a sense and it's There's not much story to be honest, which is probably why there are all these, you know All the filler dialogue and character interactions. There's not a lot to it Uh cinematography is actually good. You know rob zombie can direct this guy. He knows what he's doing. He's done a bunch of films Uh, the music is good. Actually the music choices in this are really good. Um, which you know That shouldn't be a big surprise rob zombie knows music. That's how we got started in in industries Um, and then he went to film So it's not a big surprise that his musical use in this is really good. That's one of the things that really helps enhance the film in my opinion Uh, but yeah, like I said, this film has no business being an hour and fifty nine five minutes It should definitely be cut down Um, so the film's all about mayhem like I was saying which is actually par for the course With this subject matter and as a continuation of the house of a thousand corpses and devil's reject But with less actual story than the other two films Yeah, so house of a thousand corpses kind of sets stuff up has you know, some story to it devil's rejects has Also a story to it. I think I had a little bit less story, but it was still Story there and then this one feels like it's not adding anything new really. It's just a continuation of Mayhem, you know, and it and it's just focusing on this is what following these people around Is like and the mayhem that that involved like they There's a bit a very little bit of a story that's kind of introduced, but it's like I don't know. It's it feels forced and it's very whatever It doesn't feel like it matters and it you know, so it's just light on story It's not really any point where you feel like it's going anywhere interesting to be honest. It's just a slow meandering film I mean, it really is And then I just said the last thing I said about this is if you're a big fan of these films, you'll like this You will like this if you're a big fan of house of a thousand corpses and devil's rejects because it gives you more of what you like It gives you more of the firefly family There you go It just doesn't do anything new or there's no story or anything If you're in the middle about that stuff like me Or if you don't like rob zombie You're not going to like this film most likely now I'm an in the middle person like I said and overall I didn't hate this film But I didn't particularly like it either. So it's one of those things where I will not rewatch it Because for me personally it does not warrant a rewatch. I have no interest in watching it past the first time But I'm I'm happy that I watched it once like it was worth seeing one time for me to be honest Which which is fine because like I said like I'm very in the middle on rob zombie So really where this film is going to shine is for people who are big rob zombie fans and people Particularly who are big fans of this firefly family trilogy So You know make up your own mind figure out if you want to watch this or not But I'd say just give it a shot, you know There are plenty of movies out there. You never know if you're really going to like them or not until you check them out So, uh, yeah, so awesome. Thanks for checking this out. I'm going to give my star rating on it now So with uh out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm actually going to give this a two star rating uh, which I go to be honest going into it. I thought I was going to end up going Like lower because I heard a lot of bad things about this film from people who aren't big rob zombie fans and in in betweeners And um, I heard some good things on the other hand, but I heard more bad than good So I was really going in thinking while me being who I am and how I feel about rob zombie I'm probably not going to like this, but it was fine You know, obviously I laid out all the problems. I feel like are there it could It could have been a much better film had some of those things been changed, but it is what it is So anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out. Thanks again to shutter for sending me a screener for this one I really appreciate that and check it out on february 13th Thursday february 13th on shutter. It's a shutter exclusive. It will be streaming there. 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