The Unclean

Seven months after the events in House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Sheriff John Quincy Wydell and a large posse of State Troopers go to collect the Firefly family for over seventy homicides and the disappearances that occurred over the past several years. They begin a full-scale attack when the Firefly family begins to fight back. During the firefight, Tiny goes missing, Rufus is killed, and Mother Firefly is taken into custody while Otis and Baby escape. Otis and Baby take refuge at a run-down motel, where they torture and murder four of the five members of Banjo and Sullivan, a traveling country band. The last member of the band is killed by a truck after she is freed by the maid service. Otis and Baby then meet up with Baby’s father, Captain Spaulding.

Meanwhile, Wydell slowly begins to lose his sanity when Mother Firefly reveals that she murdered his brother. After having a dream in which his brother urges him to avenge him, Wydell stabs Mother Firefly to death. The surviving Fireflys gather at a brothel owned by Captain Spaulding’s brother, Charlie Altamont, where he offers them shelter from the police. After leaving the brothel to purchase some chickens, Charlie is threatened at gunpoint by Wydell to give up the Fireflys. With the help of a pair of amoral bounty hunters known as the “Unholy Two,” the sheriff takes the family back to the Firefly house where he delights in torturing them with similar methods they had used on their own victims. He nails Otis’ hands to his chair and staples crime scene photographs to Otis’ and Baby’s stomach, beats and shocks Captain Spaulding and Otis with a cattleprod, and taunts Baby about the death of her mother.

Wydell lights the house on fire and leaves Otis and Spaulding to burn while taking Baby outside to murder her. Charlie Altamont returns to save the Firefly family, but is brutally axed by Wydell. It is only the last minute intervention of Tiny that saves the Firefly family; the giant returns and snaps Wydell’s neck. The family shares a brief tearful reunion. Otis, Baby, and Spaulding escape in Charlie’s car. The film’s final scene has the trio driving into the middle of a police barricade, with no sound heard except Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” As the tempo of the last portion of the song increases, they grab their guns and go forward in a final blaze of glory, being shot to death by the police.
Directed by Rob Zombie
Produced by Rob Zombie, Mike Elliott & Michael Ohoven
Written by Rob Zombie
Starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon & William Forsythe

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