These sequences are shot with a frenetic shaky-cam style. Still, villains beg for their lives, as I mentioned above, because there's something brutal and unsparing about Zombie's kill scenes. There is, therefore, a generic assumption of how murder works in "31:" we want the bad guys to die because they've picked the wrong side. Here's where Zombie's jeremiad-like fervor gets a little hard to swallow: since his political arena boils down to taunts and violence, there's not a lot separating the baddies' actions to the good guys' responses. They are human, but they choose not to be, and that's why they deserve to die. For this reason, Doomhead's group only really show their humanity when they're begging for their lives (more on this shortly). They boast about how much they hate what Charly's group symbolizes: an integrated group of white and black men and women who genuinely like spending time with each other. Doomhead's guys aren't nearly as conscious of each other. They smoke pot, have (or joke about) sex with each other, and generally function as a unit. But the main difference between the two groups is fairly simple: Charly's gang works together to survive while Doomhead's crew are tools of evil masters Father Doom ( Malcolm McDowell) and Sister Serpent ( Jane Carr).īefore they're kidnapped, Charly's people take joy in each other's company. As they chase each other, both groups-the good-natured carnies led by Charly ( Sheri Moon Zombie) and the killer clowns headed by sadistic killer Doomhead ( Richard Brake)-egg each other on as if they were sitting in a dunk tank, daring rubes to hit the target and send them reeling. There's no middle ground in "31," though the film's antagonists are eventually revealed to be just as human as Zombie's lead protagonists. What will you do, Zombie seems to ask: bow down to the rich demagogues who pit you against your fellow men? Or will you fight for yourself, and cut down the people who willingly accept dehumanizing roles? But there's a hard, albeit idiosyncratically expressed, political core to the film that makes it a perfect election season horror film that forces a complaisant community of outsiders to fight for their lives.
Granted, Trump and Clinton supporters can just as easily see their respective opponents as the piece's real villains: some of the evil clowns identify themselves as Nazis and/or misogynists, and the aristocrats pulling their strings represent an established hierarchy of jaded kings and king-makers. The first trailer for 31 will be released next Tuesday, June 14th, and we’ll be sure to share it with Daily Dead readers.But Zombie's characteristically infectious personality and abrasive style of filmmaking gives "31" an unusual urgency that pulls together otherwise familiar elements and makes them cohere into a dire polemic.
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While trapped, they must play a violent game called 31, in which the mission is to survive 12 hours against a gang of evil clowns.”ģ1 stars Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Lew Temple, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Tracey Walter, Pancho Moler, Jane Carr, Ginger Lynn, Richard Brake, Judy Geeson, David Ury, E.G. “Five friends are kidnapped on the day before Halloween and are held hostage in a terrifying place named Murder World. "And all you have to do is survive 12 hours of our own private hell." The first trailer for Rob Zombie's 31 has arrived, giving fans a sneak peek at the demented denizens of Murder World.įollowing its world premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Saban Films acquired Rob Zombie’s 31 for North American distribution, and they will release the film on VOD September 16th, with a theatrical release to follow on October 21st.
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