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November 11, 2009

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THE DEVIL’S REJECTS
(Comcast Free Movies) The second film to be directed by the heavy-metal rocker Rob Zombie is actually a pretty good, if almost completely scurrilous, homage to the cheap drive-in revenge films of the 1970s. Fans of the genre will be in B-movie heaven picking off the cameo appearances, but the main plot, about a kill-crazed clan of psychos, wallows too heavily in sadism. Fans would say that’s the point - so let ’em. Pictured: Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood and Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby. (PG; runs through Nov. 18) TY BURR

CONAN THE DESTROYER
(Encore on Comcast) Heavy metal, but a lot easier to take than the first Conan movie. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Conan is more relaxed. Big Wilt Chamberlain is a wooden heavy, but Grace Jones is high-energy fun, dispensing spears without tears. (PG; runs through Nov. 19)

THE TERMINATOR
(Encore on Comcast) This genre classic about a killer cyborg sent backward in time to alter history is the movie that let us know Arnold Schwarzenegger would be back. James Cameron, too. Schwarzenegger’s steely persistence and director Cameron’s nonstop action against a backdrop of darkness are still the models for dozens of inferior copies. (R; runs through Nov. 19)

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