Comments on: Sympathy for The Devil’s Rejects: Horror’s Most Likeable Villains https://halloweenlove.com/sympathy-for-the-devils-rejects-horrors-most-likeable-villains/Halloween & Horror BlogSun, 03 Jan 2021 17:07:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: No Sympathy for Fireflies https://halloweenlove.com/sympathy-for-the-devils-rejects-horrors-most-likeable-villains/#comment-7765Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:27:00 +0000https://halloweenlove.com/?p=16882#comment-7765I felt no sympathy for them. I was hoping that the cop would finish torturing them and kill them.

They have no redeeming qualities and the movie felt like it was trying to force me to humanise them and feel bad for them. Not a chance. I don’t understand the people who feel sympathy for them. They’re disgusting and worthless pieces of trash and I was hoping they’d get a less honourable death in the end.

The cop while being a vigilante, was sympathetic. His brother died to those freaks and countless other people have.

They deserved a slow torturous death. Zombie is getting unnecessary praise for this movie. It was honestly mediocre at best, never mind the ending left me feeling unsatisfied. Now I like bad endings where the bad guys win, but the fact that the cop died and didn’t get his revenge irked me.

Gotta say, the dialogue was awful and wooden, the characters were grating, especially the laughing. Mediocre movie, and awful forced sympathy with the Fireflies was just.. Urgh. It was like, going:

“No guys look how close of a family they are! Sympathise with them! Doesn’t matter that they’re barely human and have no sense of empathy and have killed countless innocents! Please guys look how human they are! They have emotions!”

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By: Sarah Queen https://halloweenlove.com/sympathy-for-the-devils-rejects-horrors-most-likeable-villains/#comment-7515Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:05:00 +0000https://halloweenlove.com/?p=16882#comment-7515Great article, I’ve always rooted for the villains in the movies. I think it gives us a human outlet to cheer for those who are the most entertaining, and in horror its usually the bad guy or the final girl.

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By: @SBofSelfAbuse https://halloweenlove.com/sympathy-for-the-devils-rejects-horrors-most-likeable-villains/#comment-7503Thu, 23 Jul 2015 01:40:00 +0000https://halloweenlove.com/?p=16882#comment-7503At the same time he makes you root against Wydell more and more by making him more villainous as the movie progresses. Particularly when he stabs Mother Firefly. Zombie really worked some psychological magic in that movie.

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By: Cjevy https://halloweenlove.com/sympathy-for-the-devils-rejects-horrors-most-likeable-villains/#comment-7502Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:50:00 +0000https://halloweenlove.com/?p=16882#comment-7502great article, great film… Also might be by favorite soundtrack. Hard to believe it came out ten years ago

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By: Attack of the Couch https://halloweenlove.com/sympathy-for-the-devils-rejects-horrors-most-likeable-villains/#comment-7501Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:40:00 +0000https://halloweenlove.com/?p=16882#comment-7501I love this movie. Rob thrives with his villains, in my opinion and dares the audience to like them. I love how he humanizes them; with DR he showed them as a family who bicker and crack jokes with each other like any other family would. In Halloween 2, he showed Michael as a drifter who scavenges to survive between killing. I love how he shows the villains at their most down-to-earth as well as at their most criminally insane. Whether you love this movie or hate it, there’s no denying it went against the grain at the time. It’s in my top 10

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