3 FROM HELL

US, 2019, 115 minutes, Colour.
Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Richard Brake, Lucinda Jenny, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, Clint Howard, Daniel Roebuck, Richard Riehle. Narrated by Barry Bostwick.
Directed by Rob Zombie.

It is fairly safe to say that 3 From Hell is a film solely for those who are Rob Zombie film completists. They would include fans of gory horror, brutal violence, and violent amoral worlds.

This film is in continuation (with visual quotes) from his earlier films, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects. The same central characters, self-absorbed, ugly, no moral compass in their lives. Sid Haig, a regular for Rob Zombie, appears early in the film but died in real life and his character then is imprisoned and executed. Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon Zombie are imprisoned, exercise their violence in prison, eventually are released and go on a mad violent rampage, killing at will, gleefully enjoying it, eventually confronting a drug lord – who is overcome, placed in a coffin, burnt alive. The escapees go joyfully on their way.

It is fair to say that these are three depraved characters presented with no redeeming features.

It is surprising to see a number of character actors from Hollywood in supporting roles.