![]() They exist just so that Malcolm McDowell and Judy Geeson can wear a lot of makeup, but it's different makeup than the filth worn by everyone else because I guess variety? Again, this is a movie concerned with art direction and production design first. Zombie has the game of 31 (as a game, it's not very interesting the rules are "people murder you") played out for the entertainment of some aristocrats, but once again we know nothing about them. It's a white trash Running Man, except that The Running Man had stuff to say about media and culture and violence as entertainment. ![]() So 31 sets up a game in which regular people are hunted and killed by overly-costumed psychos. If they can stay alive for 12 hours, they are told they will be set free. Halloween, 1976: A gang of traveling carnies that includes Sherri Moon Zombie, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Meg Foster, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Kevin Jackson, are ambushed and kidnapped and forced to play a game of "31" in which they are chased through a huge maze by a series of psychos trying to kill them. It's what you might expect a Rob Zombie movie to be if he had never made another movie, much less some of the most interesting and distinctive horror films of the last 10-15 years. Partially crowdfunded and given what appears to have been a one-night theatrical release (through Fathom events) before appearing on VOD, 31 is the movie that Zombie's critics have always accused him of making: scuzzy, violent, unimaginative and concerned primarily with aesthetics - whether or not things look cool - instead of having something to say. As someone who has been a fan and sometimes apologist for every single one of Rob Zombie's movies - yes, including both his Halloween films - it brings me no joy to be left cold by his latest effort 31.
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