Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Darktragedy I've seen this twice, and I do like Rob Zombie movies, so I'm a little biased. I love the characters. Doom Head is creepy, calculating and just messed up enough to enjoy. The other characters that come into the game are there long enough to just get a taste of what they are like, and that's long enough to leave you wanting more of them.The gore is there, the action, the wonky characters. I thought the movie had a great pace to it. I would watch it again, just because there are so many bad movies out right now, I know this would entertain me again. If you liked Devil's Rejects or House of 1,000 Corpses, this is for you. If you haven't seen those, this might be a little too much, go back and start with House of 1, 000 Corpses. Overall, thumbs up, can't wait for 3 From Hell!

TdSmth5 In the black and white intro some guy gives, I kid you not, a 6-minute speech to the camera. Well, he's supposed to be talking to a priest he's been torturing and eventually kills him with a hatchet.Next we meet perhaps the most unremarkable and dullest cast of character this side of a lost-footage horror. They are driving somewhere when they run into a bunch of scarecrows blocking the road. When they stop and get out, they are attacked by a bunch of guys. Two of the characters are killed for some reason. The rest are taken to what looks like a church where they are chained. They are told they are now part of a survival game called 31 (why 31?). They have to survive a bunch of killers who will go after them one by one. The game will last 12 hours. The organizers place bets by ranking which on of the goofs will last longer.The first killer is a Hispanic little person dressed up as Hitler (what the...) who delivers most of his lines in Spanish for no good reason whatsoever, even though he can speak perfect English. Yup, so here you have 5 adults (3 male, 2 female) each with a club or some weapon, screaming, running in horror, and hiding from some little person cursing in Spanish.Next they have to face two guys with chainsaws. Then a big German dude and his sexy girlfriend. At last the survivors have to face the guy from the intro who is the expert killer. In between the challenges we hear the organizers talking about the odds and placing their bets.Of course one person survives for the weirdest of reasons. And then there's a very dissatisfying ending, not just in terms of the main villain and the main good character but also in terms of the organizers of the whole thing. No answers about anything are provided.31 just doesn't work. The cinematography is dark and ugly. Dialogue is utterly pointless. Direction is a mess, editing is a disaster. The music is good though. The main concept isn't bad, or new for that matter. A game of death where a group of people have to survive attackers so the decadent rich can entertain themselves and play with the lives of regular folk, but with a touch of Rob Zombie. It should have worked as a gory movie. Instead they cut this movie down to an R-rating and it bombed anyway at the box office. When will they ever learn? The only thing they get by censoring a horror movie is alienating the fans. And Zombie must have fewer and fewer of those with every movie he releases. And it's understandable, his movies are getting worse and worse. It leads me to wonder, just who did really direct The Devil's Rejects? The long behind-the-scenes feature explains a lot. Zombie's movie-making process is a catastrophe. He has a "whatever, anything goes" improvised approach with little in terms of a vision. He doesn't care about the end result the audience will see. He opposes a "polished" product, which is fine if you go with the "raw" concept and actually take it seriously and do something with it. He seems rather disinterested and bored with making movies. Personally, I don't have a problem with the performances. Sure, not all are that good, but many are. Elizabeth Daily is just adorable. Richard Brake gives a remarkable committed performance.There's some nice nudity, the occasional gore but not much else worthwhile.

bornskeptic ....if Rob Zombie promises to never make another movie. You kind of assume that after a few years of doing anything, you would get better at it. Zombie has regressed. Or simply gotten lazy. No matter, this thing was awful. I won't bother to analyze specifics here, but the man should go back to music and leave moviemaking to the talentless amateurs of the world....cuz they make better flicks.

jadavix "31" is the kind of movie that makes you wonder what went wrong. It seems unlikely the filmmakers were happy with the final product. It's confusing, hard to follow, and the pacing is all messed up. It feels like it's probably missing scenes that would have explained key details, or given us time to catch up and actually care about what we're seeing.The plot is something to do with a group of people traveling in a camper van in the '70s when they get kidnapped by a murderous group of side show freaks and forced to play some kind of survival game.Apparently this group of people are carnival workers themselves, though I missed where that was explained. Aside from Sheri Moon Zombie none of the characters make any impression anyway. One of them looks so much like a young Sid Haig you wonder why the man himself wasn't cast.The movie has one great moment, and that's the very beginning. Richard Brake, a great discovery of Zombie's, breaks (no pun intended) the fourth wall and I had the uncanny sensation he really was talking to me. I can't remember that happening in a movie before.Apparently this movie was crowd-funded "twice". Perhaps that is a sign that something went wrong behind the scenes. Did they run out of money the first time?