Best movie ever!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

As an adamant horror movie fan, I happened upon this movie, thinking it would be just another cliche survival horror films. Instead, I found one of the most disgusting films I've ever seen, one that I couldn't even stomach finishing. I don't tend to be bothered by gore or vulgarity, but this film took everything to another level. The characters were uninteresting and poorly developed, even by horror standards. Combined with poor acting and even worse dialogue, the film was a complete mess. and unbearable to watch. There were whole scenes in this movie that could have been taken out, being placed in to have no other purpose but shock value.I wasn't expecting the best of the best here, but I was so bothered by this film that I actually needed to write a review to tell others just how awful it was. I couldn't imagine what Rob Zombie was thinking when making this and quite frankly I don't know what I was thinking when I picked this film to watch.DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING THIS!!!

Rob Zombie does his version of "Running Man" in this film. A group of carnival travelers are taken prisoner by Malcolm McDowell (replaces Richard Dawson) and company and are forced to participate in a survival game called "31" because it takes place on Halloween. They are placed in what appears to be a steam plant while hunters are introduced as in "Running Man"...odds are established and wages made. The first killer was a Hispanic midget Nazi (Pancho Moler). Sheri Moon Zombie plays the same oversexed vulgar character that she normally does. Since her husband wrote the script, she gets to play Arnold and if you are thinking of a final girl... Doom-Head played magnificently by Richard Brake in bad clown make-up reminded me of the Heath Ledger Joker as he keeps telling himself, "I'm not crazy. I'm in control." The film delivers plenty of blood, guts, bad jokes, sex, full frontal nudity, vulgarity, torture, abuse...all in good fun. The theater version was cut to go from NC-17 to R. After the first cut, it was still NC-17. It took a second cut to get it to R. The Blu-Ray version is supposed to be uncut. It's Rob Zombie, you know what to expect.Nudity includes: Andrea Dora, Ginger Lynn, Devin Sidell, Shawn Rougeron, Megan Albertus

This was a good movie. I tried watching it the first time, and the diversity of the characters and the monotonous plot of characters running from their captors really made me turn it off. However, in my second viewing, I was surprised by my lack of trust in Mr. Rob Zombie. I think the ending may have solidified this as a good addition to the director's filmography. The killer in the white face paint is a pretty damn good villain! The story is simple. Circus employees get captured, and are sent to a place where the game is for them to stay alive. All of them die slowly, except the blonde, who wins the game just as the "guy in the white face paint" is about to kill her. Let me just end this review by saying that the guy in the white face paint is the man.6 Stars

I don't know why this movie is getting such bad reviews. I may be alone here but Rob Zombie hasn't made a movie that I didn't love. Everything about this for me was magical, especially the open ending. The cast is great, the story is great, special effects... It's all great. I just think that I have an attachment to him as a director and enjoy what he is putting out.