Coming off the hypnotic, stylish, and divisive Lords of Salem, 31 is the absolute opposite end of the spectrum, making something visually and narratively abrasive and irritating.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2023

Zombie forces his corny instincts into every line of dialogue, disconnecting the viewer from the experience on any relatable, emotional level.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 11, 2022

it was really clever... you find yourself really getting into it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 29, 2021

It's what you might expect a Rob Zombie movie to be if he had never made another movie, much less some of the most interesting and distinctive horror films of the last 10-15 years.

| Oct 31, 2019

While hardcore fans of Rob Zombie's black-as-coal humor and grindhouse-horror style will most likely delight in this campy, gore-filled romp, 31 lacks the wit and charm of his early films.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 9, 2019

[T]his is relentlessly entertaining, brilliantly bloody, carnie carnage with a career-defining performance from Richard Brake at its heart.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 8, 2019

An exercise in fetishized depravity.

| Original Score: 1.75/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Fake intensity...the characters we were supposed to empathize with aren't really developed at all...

| Feb 11, 2019

Fans of Zombie's work might find some things to love about 31, but it feels like he was kinda phoning it on on this one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 18, 2018

There's a distinction between excitement and excess that Zombie fundamentally fails to process here.

| Original Score: D+ | Nov 11, 2018

Rob Zombie gave us a film that has everything you expect from a Rob Zombie film: excitement, bloodshed, and bad guys that you can't help but love. This was definitely not his best film, but it was a lot of fun to watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 2, 2018

A commanding performance from Richard Brake and some impressive visuals combine to make this one of Zombie's stronger works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2018

Ultimately falls a little short when it comes to matching up with some of Zombie's other features, but there's still plenty of deranged desperation and death here for horror fans to devour.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 11, 2018

Still, the star-making performance and strong character work from Richard Blake will leave audiences with something to talk about. What the hell was DC doing not casting him as Joker?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2017

As I watched Zombie's latest endeavor, I was less convinced that he was dealing with powerful philosophies and more apt to believe he was trapped on the hamster wheel of his own overwrought artistic values.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2017

[Zombie's] sort of a Tim Burton wearing a blood-soaked wife-beater, paying homage again and again to the monsters and psychos that shaped his imagination.

| Original Score: C | May 17, 2017

A film that is a true guilty pleasure, as dark as hilarious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 19, 2016

31 may be enough to please some of Zombie's most hardcore fans, but the filmmaker doesn't bring anything new, or refreshing to the table here.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 4, 2016

It's bloody and noisy and super stylish...

| Original Score: 16/20 | Oct 23, 2016

Zombie may not be working outside of his comfort zone, but 31 is one of his most impressive films to date.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2016