Spaulding, Otis, and Baby are eventually captured by Wydell and brought to the Firefly house, where Wydell tortures them. In prison, Wydell stabs Mama Firefly to death as revenge for the murder of his brother George Wydell, whom she fatally shot in the previous film. In the film's opening sequence, Mama Firefly is taken into custody when the Firefly home is subjected to a search and destroy mission by Sheriff John Wydell and a number of state troopers, but Spaulding is elsewhere during the raid. In The Devil's Rejects, Spaulding is revealed to be the patriarch of the Firefly family. Spaulding's ties to the Firefly clan are kept ambiguous throughout most of the film. Satan, Spaulding directs them in the path of the murderous Firefly family. Later in the film, when a group of four people visit his establishment and learn of the local legend of Dr. At the beginning of the film, the establishment is targeted by robbers, whom Spaulding kills. The establishment also harbors a roadside haunted house attraction known as Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen. In House of 1000 Corpses, Spaulding is portrayed as the proprietor of a gas station in Texas that also sells fried chicken. Driftwood and invited him to become a member of their family. Spaulding met Eve Wilson, also known as Mama Firefly, in 1947, and they had a daughter named Vera-Ellen (also known as Baby Firefly). My Only regret is that Rob Zombie killed off the Captain in the devils rejects.hopefully he can find a way to bring him back.Captain Spaulding has a lengthy criminal history, and earned the nickname "Cutter" for stabbing a man to death. The Firefly family would incorporate the legend of Dr. Satan attraction which was based on tales recounted to Cutter by Otis and Vera Ellen, now known as Angel Baby or Baby, about a local madman who ran a cult that the two were briefly members of. Only five years after the beginning of its construction, the museum was attracting tourists from all over the country to experience the new Dr. In 1971, Captain Spaulding began his work building the now infamous road side attraction Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen. What caused this is unclear but it is thought that Charlie was supplying local law enforcement officials with hooch and women behind Cutter’s back and keeping all the proceeds. This encounter led to hostility towards Charlie from Otis. Sometime during this period Charlie and Otis encountered each other at Charlie’s ranch, now doubling as a cut price brothel. Cutter saw this as a way of raising money in order to build a facility which Cutter could use to share his two loves  serial murder and fried chicken  with the world. He began running an illegal moonshine business from Charlie’s ranch. Flywheel“, in the tradition of Cutter’s new family’s Groucho fascination. We find this out in the second movie involving the character, The Devils Rejects, in which Sheriff Wydell is researching into the Firefly family.Īt the beginning of 1968, Cutter and Charlie began using another alias, “ Wolf J. The inspiration for the name “Captain Spaulding” came from Groucho Marx’ part in the stage play and film Animal Crackers. It was Otis who called the family The Fireflys and who nicknamed Cutter Captain Spaulding. The two would often fight for control of the family. He and Otis quickly became close companions and rivals. Driftwood wandered into Ruggsville County. Cutter lived with Eve Wilson, even raising their daughter Vera Ellen together. She already had two children of her own, Rufus and Tiny. Charlie would refer to him as Cutter after Johnny Lee stabbed a man to death, which he would take as his name.Īround the fall of 1947, Cutter met Mother Firefly, who at the time took the alias Eve Wilson. Ding Dong a Bo-Bo using his clown character’s name. Johnny Lee developed an interest in sideshow deformities and violent crime photography, foreshadowing his Captain Spaulding persona. Johnny Lee would soon grow very close to his adoptive brother Charlie. He spent a small part of his childhood in the Ruggsville County home for orphaned boys until being adopted by a black family. “According to his biography, Captain Spaulding was born on April 13, 1918, in Ruggsville, Texas, with the name Johnny Lee Johns. Rob Zombie took out time to write a backstory for Captain Spaulding before The Devils Rejects was released. Played by Sid Haig, Captain Spaulding is both creepy, and fascinating at the same time. I have become obsessed with Captain Spaulding from Rob Zombies film’s ‘ House of 1000 Corpses‘ and ‘ The Devils Rejects‘. I will start the first one off with one of my favorite characters. Example, a favorite character from a movie(s), or a favorite cult classic. I am going to start talking about other random crap on here, and one of the things I considered doing was a column about some of my favorite things movie related.
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