Film Review – 31

Rob Zombie has become the Woody Allen of horror movies. He has the one thing he likes to do and he does it, reasonably well too. However, it’s difficult these days to find an audience for features about sadistic clowns and gushing bodily fluids, forcing Zombie to dial back the scope of his latest picture, “31,” heading to micro-budget filmmaking to scratch his creative itch. Coming off the interesting “Lords of Salem,” it’s a bit of a disappointment to watch Zombie play it safe with “31,” which only seems interested in maniacal behavior when it wants to be, leaving the rest of the commendable but slightly dulled effort to padding and atmosphere, with the helmer trying to stretch his sack-of-dimes budget. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com