31

Set in 1976, 31 follows five carnival workers who are abducted the night before Halloween and taken to a hidden compound called Murder World. There they are forced into a brutal game in which they must stay alive for twelve hours while a gang of killers in clown masks hunts them down. The captives include Charly, played by Sheri Moon Zombie, along with Venus Virgo, Panda Thomas and others, while their tormentors are led by Doom-Head, played by Richard Brake, and the figure known as Father Murder, played by Malcolm McDowell.

Rob Zombie wrote and directed the film and also produced it with Mike Elliott and Andy Gould. It was released in September 2016 and runs 102 minutes. Within Zombie's filmography it arrived between The Lords of Salem and 3 from Hell, a stretch that also includes his two Halloween films and The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. The production was modest, with a budget of about 2 million dollars, and the cast is filled out by Meg Foster, Daniel Roebuck and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs.

Reception was mixed. On IMDb the rating stands at 5.1 out of 10 from roughly 25,000 votes, and on TMDB it is 5.4 out of 10 from a smaller base of around 872 votes. A critics' rating of 5.4 out of 10 from 46 reviews places professional opinion close to where audiences landed.