2000 Maniacs

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June 16, 2008

http://uraniumcafe-the.com 2,000 Maniacs (1964) Starring: Connie Mason, Thomas Wood, Jeffrey Allen, Ben Moore Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Synopsis: hapless travellers are terrorized by a com...

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2,000 Maniacs (1964)
Starring: Connie Mason, Thomas Wood, Jeffrey Allen, Ben Moore
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Synopsis: hapless travellers are terrorized by a community of ghostly vengeful lunatics
Reviewed by: Omar Khan

"who's counting?" Splatter Movies

"revolting" Creature Features

"full of cruel tortures and mutilation" Video Movie Guide

"has some tacky charm" Blockbuster Video

After 1963's gore spectacular Blood Feast one approached 2000 Maniacs with more than slight trepidation fearing the most gruesome blood drenched atrocities. The first twenty minutes of the movie are thus spent watching in a state of extreme caution, similar to when you brace yourself for the exploding leap of a Jack-in-the-Box.

Blood Feast didn't waste any time at all getting down to business and one was shown a woman's eyes being gouged out and then her limbs being hacked off - and this in the first couple of minutes of running time! This time around director H.G. Lewis leaves his audience dying of tension at the sheer expectancy of what horrors may lie ahead. The film begins with a couple of red neck pranksters dragging a detour sign along a lonely road to deceive drivers bearing license plates from the Northern States. Three or four cars fall for their trap and end up in a remote town by the name of Pleasant Valley which is in the midst of gearing up for their centennial festivities and are oddly awaiting guests to drop by. The bewildered guests materialize in the shape of the lost drivers who stumble upon the celebrations but are delighted if a touch taken aback to find that they are being toasted as the "Guests of Honour" for the duration of the festivities.

After the unbelievable ineptness of Blood Feast this film comes as an astonishingly complex and well crafted and characterized thriller with a socio-political message (excuse me while I have a severe giggling fit). Actually it's a resoundingly terrible film but when compared to Blood Feast it looks like a polished work of art with Oscar winning performances...which says more about the sheer awfulness of Blood Feast rather than the qualities of this slice of splatter. It's surprisingly entertaining though and the gore effects are spectacularly ghastly and shouldn't have disappointed the directors rapidly growing fan base. The acting of Connie Mason, the Playboy Playmate who featured in Feast is still awful despite improvement in leaps and bounds over her effort in her debut role. The other performers are embarrassing but not to the level they were in Feast. However undoubtedly the most frightening aspect of the film is the ghastly collection of country songs that have been composed by H.G. Lewis and feature throughout the movie - They are tortuous at best with the title song (which is given a repeat during the closing credits) being particularly foul.

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that rock thing would suck

gravelandgrain100 (6 months ago) Show Hide

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Always liked this one better than 2001 Maniacs and more than Blood Feast!

the south's gonna rise again.....

zymmyiscool (3 months ago) Show Hide

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my fav hgl movie is wizard of gore

765tony (6 months ago) Show Hide

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jeffrey allen died in 1991 in illinoise

765tony (6 months ago) Show Hide

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jeffrey allen played the part of mayer buckman,better than robert england did in the new one,check jeffrey allen out in moonshine mountain and this stuff will kill ya

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some of the locations on this film were shot where disneyworld now sits......

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lol manic hillbillies

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i live in the town this movie was made in my friend adam takes me around and we find the actual locations in this film

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