31 (2016)

What to Expect

31 kicks off on October 31st, 1976 with a group of carnies traveling to their next gig. They're a colorfully crude crew who are definitely not for the squeamish. Rob Zombie seems to do everything he can to offend throughout the first 20 minutes. But anyone who knows RZ's movies knows this is not out of character. Some critics seem to think this vulgarity is just used for the shock factor, I think it works to effectively create a perverted kind of camaraderie among the cast. Sure they're degenerates, but they're the only degenerates for miles around. They're cut from the same cloth, they get each other and they're friends because of it. They're like watching a bunch of homeless junkies all laughing at the same fart jokes. 

As they're clunking down the road one night in their beat up motorhome they get stopped by a few guys who kill some of our carnies and kidnap the rest. The rest wake up in some bizarre building where they're told about a game called 31 that they're about to be forced to play. Basically, if they can survive the next 12 hours they get to leave.

Survival of course won't be easy. The game involves them all being hunted by various deranged killers in a sprawling labyrinth designed to not be survivable.