His truck runs out of gas on the way, and he frightens a boy and assaults the boy's mother before stealing her car. Meanwhile, Baby's father, Captain Spaulding, decides to rendezvous with Baby and Otis. They steal a car, kill the driver, and go to Kahiki Palms, a run-down motel.Īt the motel, Otis and Baby take a musical group called Banjo and Sullivan hostage in their room, and Otis shoots the roadie when he returns. Rufus is killed and Mother Firefly is taken into custody while Otis and Baby escape. The family arm themselves and fire on the officers. On (seven months after the "Halloween sacrifice" depicted in House of 1000 Corpses), Texas Sheriff John Quincey Wydell and a large posse of state troopers issue a search and destroy mission on the Firefly family, who are responsible for over 75 homicides and disappearances over the past several years. The film's DVD release is dedicated to his "loving memory." This was the final film to feature actor Matthew McGrory before his death the same year (although McGrory did have an uncredited posthumous cameo in 2017's The Evil Within, which was filmed in 2002). At the time of release and in the years since, the film has garnered a cult following. The film was released on July 22, 2005, to minor commercial success and mixed but more positive reviews over its predecessor. The film is centered on the run of three members of the psychopathic antagonist family from the previous film, now seen as villainous protagonists, with Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Zombie's wife Sheri Moon Zombie reprising their roles, and Leslie Easterbrook replacing Karen Black as the matriarch. Meanwhile, the zombie train’s projected cost has ballooned from $33 billion in 2008 to $113 billion today.The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 black comedy horror film written, produced and directed by Rob Zombie, and it is the second film in the Firefly film series, a sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. Strange how the people who know it best are the ones who have the least faith it deserves to be kept alive. “The consequence of starting in the Central Valley is not having a system,” said Rich Tolmach, who headed the nonprofit California Rail Foundation that promotes public rail transit and was deeply involved in the early days of the project. It resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in contractor delay claims. California’s bullet train project has also become a fiscal sinkhole for federal funds.įederal grants of $3.5 billion for what was supposed to be a shovel-ready project pushed the state to prematurely issue the first construction contracts when it lacked any land to build on. It’s not just a state government spending mess. Federal Funding Keeps California’s Zombie Bullet Train Going Yet it continues, lurching along like the zombie it has become. “I don’t think it is an existing project,” he said. I don’t know how they can build it now.”ĭan Richard, the longest-serving rail chairman, said starting the project with an early goal of linking Los Angeles and San Francisco was “a strategic mistake.” An initial line between Los Angeles and San Diego, he said, would have made more sense.Īnd Quentin Kopp, another former rail chairman who earlier served as a state senator and a Superior Court judge, said the system would be running today but for the many bad political decisions that have made it almost impossible to build. “I was totally naïve when I took the job,” said Michael Tennenbaum, a former Wall Street investment banker who was the first chairman of the rail authority 20 years ago. More damning are the things each former project leader has said about California’s zombie bullet train project. How many more decades do they think it will lumber on? Doomed from the Beginning The project is already in its second decade of development. That’s saying something for a project whose funding was first approved by California voters in 2008. Unless rail authority managers can improve cost controls and find significant new sources of funding, they said, the project is likely to grind to a halt in future decades. Speaking candidly on the subject for the first time, some of the high-speed rail authority’s past leaders say the project may never work. The Times’s review, though, revealed that political deals created serious obstacles in the project from the beginning. “There is nothing but problems on the project,” the speaker of the State Assembly, Anthony Rendon, complained recently. That’s what happened in its Sunday, Octoedition, as reporter Ralph Vartabedian reports how years of mismanagement by state government officials turned California’s proposed bullet train into a zombie project. You know a government spending project has run off its rails when the New York Times criticizes it.
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