2001 Maniacs (2005)

Director:

Tim Sullivan

Writers:

Chris Kobin (writer)
Tim Sullivan (writer)

Release Date:

13 July 2006 (Thailand)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

You are what THEY eat!

Plot:

Eight college students traveling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia where they are set upon by the residents who are out to avenge their deaths by Union troops over 100 years earlier during the Civil War.

Plot Keywords:

Mayor | Georgia | Blood | Death | Severed Leg

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Robert Englund	...	Mayor Buckman
Lin Shaye	...	Granny Boone
Giuseppe Andrews	...	Harper Alexander
Jay Gillespie	...	Anderson Lee
Marla Malcolm	...	Joey (as Marla Leigh Malcom)
Dylan Edrington	...	Nelson
Matthew Carey	...	Cory
Peter Stormare	...	Professor Ackerman
Gina Marie Heekin	...	Kat
Brian Gross	...	Ricky
Mushond Lee	...	Malcolm
Bianca Smith	...	Leah
Brendan McCarthy	...	Rufus
Adam Robitel	...	Lester
Christa Campbell	...	Milk Maiden

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gruesome images, sexuality/nudity and language.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:R | Germany:18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | UK:18 | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Finland:K-18

Filming Locations:

LaGrange, Georgia, USA

Company:

BloodWorks

Trivia:

In Producer Eli Roth 's cameo he plays the same character he played in his own feature directorial debut Cabin Fever (2002)

Quotes:

[first lines]
Professor Ackerman: Unprecedented, historical categories. More Americans died in the so-called Civil War than in the two World Wars combined. 618,000. Although popular media usually portrays the Civil War as a series of epic battles for honor and glory the reality is far from either. General Sherman's march through South Carolina alone cost over 8,000 innocent Southerners their lives.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Apocalypse Now (1979)

Soundtrack:

The South Will Rise

Those damned hell-billies.

H.G. Lewis, the "Godfather Of Gore", provides the inspiration here for this remake/re-imagining of his minor cult classic, 2000 Maniacs. If you are familiar with his work then you should love this, it's kind of just like a movie perfectly marrying his sensibilities with a decent budget and cast.

Robert Englund plays the main bad guy, a good ole Southerner helping his townsfolk enjoy their "jubilee celebrations" with the help of some home cookin' from Lin Shaye and willing victims in the shape of sidetracked (aren't they always?) teens.

There's plenty of nudity and crazy gore and it's all very tongue in cheek. Some of the sex scenes have amusing punchlines and most of the gore is ridiculously over the top, well executed but never anything to take too seriously.

Add some fun song lyrics, running gags about bestiality and a brisk pace in between the disappearance of each character (yeah, it's one of those movies where people disappear one by one without raising too much suspicion) and you have a fun movie for fans of horror that doesn't care how you look down upon it as long as you are looking.

See this if you like: 2000 Maniacs, Hellblock 13, Cabin Fever.

NB, this review was adapted from the original written under my old RockySchlockyRobot ID that I have long forgotten how to access.