Four young people spend Halloween searching for the legendary roadside attraction Dr. Satan in Rob Zombie’s feature debut — and boy, do they find him. Setting the tone for his entire career, Zombie’s spin on backwoods horror like “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” is gruesome, dirty and captivating. With a great cast portraying both normal people (Rainn Wilson, Walton Goggins, Tom Towles) and murderous freakshows (Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie), there’s real heart and menace in between the buckets of blood. Add inventive camerawork and sound design and, although Zombie would dilute his style by going to this well too many times, his first full-length feature is a low-budget classic. — W.E.
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