Directed by Rob Zombie, U.K./U.S.A. It’s 1976, and a vanload of carnies are kidnapped and forced to fight for their lives in a game of death. Chainsaw-wielding clowns, homicidal dwarf Nazis, and Malcolm McDowell in a horror version of THE RUNNING MAN. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well unfortunately, it’s not. This step backwards for Rob Zombie is like spending a hundred minutes with a hyperactive seven year-old screaming “look at me, look at me!” I’m the exact target audience for this, so it’s not that I don’t get what Zombie was trying to achieve, but this is a movie both badly conceived and badly executed. 2/5.
MOVIES THAT DIE SCREAMING 