Brake has such a wild, so-very-wide stare that you could be mistaken in thinking he has no eyelids. With heavy makeup and towering wigs, they’re instantly given more personality than the group of unwilling game contestants.īut for Zombie fans who love his filmography of demented killers, he creates yet another with actor Richard Brake as Doom-Head. Their association is the more intriguing, unsettling aspect of this story and isn't nearly dived into enough.
Zombie loves his crazy clan of three who this time are veteran actors Malcolm McDowell, Judy Geeson, and Jane Carr portraying aristocratic overseers and announcers. This one is not a slow burn and the violence never lets up.
Even though this wasn’t an entirely satisfying sendoff for Haig, his co-stars Sheri Moon Zombie and Bill Moseley still bring their manic energy.Ĭarnival workers are forced into a life or death game with one objective: survive twelve hours against killer clowns. The actor’s health was in decline and he ultimately passed away the same month 3 From Hell was released. Haig, a fan favorite in the role of Captain Spaulding, is limited to a cameo for obvious, unfortunate reasons. How much could such a franchise really explore? Not much, and while the trio got some mild development and pathos previously, here they’re just a clan of psychos.
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The universe Zombie created is full of terrible people doing terrible things. If 3 From Hell pulled anything from the previous films, it wasn’t the better aspects. This is an add-on, feature length epilogue, made for fan service more than anything else. Unfortunately, with only two of the infamous Firefly family members propelling the story, it loses the momentum of the colorful, vile monsters that populated Zombie’s last two entries in the trilogy.ĭespite the rather finite ending of the previous film, there isn’t much detail given to explain how Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood ( Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding ( Sid Haig) somehow survived their predicament. Ten minutes of grainy “archival” footage open the film and by the time things really get going, it’s obvious this is a very different film within Zombie’s Firefly trilogy all the way up to its western-themed finale. After escaping prison, the Firefly family goes on the run for one more rampage full of blood and chaos.