7/3/2023 0 Comments 31 rob zombie movie cover![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a punishingly repetitive game of cat and mouse as the carnies are kidnapped on Halloween (hence the title), dumped in an abandoned factory and hunted by a variety pack of power-tool-wielding psychopaths. But instead of spoofing 1970s horror classics like “The Hills Have Eyes” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Mr. The year is 1976, the women favor hip-huggers and handkerchief tops and the men still think that floppily bared bellies are a turn-on. We could have had fun with this merrily foulmouthed band of past-their-prime carnival workers, tootling along Southern back roads in a decrepit van. Awash in blood and revoltingly misogynistic dialogue, this latest redneck ruckus (his seventh feature) is a grindhouse slog of unrelenting bad taste. No one goes to a Rob Zombie movie looking for classy entertainment, and with “31” the director works harder than ever to reinforce that tradition.
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