Critic Reviews

3 from Hell has moments of abject horror, but fans of Zombie’s autumnal provocations will be rewarded with his most earnest and laid back nightmare yet.

It’s part torture chamber, part hangout picture, part Bring Me The Head of Those Three Crooked Murderers.

Despite a fascinating set up, Zombie takes an extravagant U-turn straight back to The Devil’s Rejects to try his hand at telling it all over again. In the end, what could have been something more instead falls back into comfortable, familiar territory that’s bloated by meandering filler.

In practice, it’s also really tedious: a slow death by nostalgia.

3 From Hell is an ugly example of too much wicked style over zero intended substance.