The people have spoken and after grossing $1.92 million at the box office during an exclusive three-evening run via Fathom Events in theaters this week, rocker-turned-horror director Rob Zombie’s “3 From Hell” will return to theaters for an encore screening at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14.
Nearly 122,000 fans turned out to see the sequel to Zombie’s 2005 film, “The Devil’s Rejects,” which landed it in the top 5 at the box office each night of the screening, coming in just behind “It: Chapter 2” on Monday, Sept. 16 and “Hustlers” on Sept. 17.
To celebrate the success of the film’s debut, the event on Oct. 14 will include a special video introduction from Zombie and fans will get a brand-new commemorative poster while supplies last. Tickets and a list of participating theaters can be found at FathomEvents.com.
“3 From Hell” continues the story of Zombie’s notorious Firefly family of serial killers — Otis Driftwood, Vera-Ellen “Baby” Firefly and Captain Spaulding, which were first introduced in his 2003 film debut, “House of 1000 Corpses.” The trio survived the first film, but at the end of “The Devil’s Rejects,” they were involved in a spectacular shoot out with law enforcement that made almost certain these characters were dead.
“I ended it like I thought it was the end, for sure,” Zombie said during an interview ahead of the release of “3 From Hell.”
Read the full interview with Zombie as well as “3 From Hell” actor Richard Brake here.
“I wouldn’t have thought when that movie (‘The Devil’s Rejects’) came out — because all of these movies were fairly moderate releases, none of them were tent pole movies released to 4,000 screens for a studio — that 14 years later, people would even remember the movie, but every year it just kept getting more and more popular.
“The characters became more popular and I’d see more T-shirts, action figures and tattoos, so it made it hard to forget about them,” he continued. “As that happened year after year, that played into the story line that kept popping into my head, which is why at the beginning of the movie they’ve become these weird iconic figures. In the other movies they were just these redneck nobodies out there killing and now they’ve become these Charles Manson-like cultural figures that kids sort of get behind in a weird way, even though they shouldn’t. That was the genesis of the idea and what really got me going.”
