The Devil's Rejects (2005)
While musician-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie was in the process of writing House of 1,000 Corpses , his first foray into both the art of filmmaking and the genre on which he was nurtured, he had a "vague idea for a story" about the brother of the sheriff, George Wydell, who was murdered by Mother Firefly coming for revenge against the family. After Lions Gate Entertainment made all their money back on the first day of Corpses ' theatrical release, they wanted Zombie to produce a follow-up, and he began to seriously think about writing a new story. Not content to settle for a rehash of his predecessor's Texas Chainsaw -inspired plot, Zombie set out to make his sequel "more horrific" and his villainous characters less cartoonish than in their debut outing, opting "to make something that was almost like a violent western. Sort of like a road movie." While still utilizing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a source of inspiration, albeit less overtly this ti...