2001 Maniacs (2005)

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 4:48pm

This little slive of direct-to-DVD schlock may be the greatest movie ever made. The sequel to the 1065 horror cult classic "2000 Maniacs," the sequel picks up in modern days and a new crew of unsuspecting Northerners find themselves in a small Southern town on the day of their annual festival. And then, just like in the original, the locals start massacring the tourists in HYSTERICAL, bloody disgusting fashion as repayment for the North wiping out the townspeoples' ancestors during The Civil War.

This is 80's horror, baby: everyone in the cast is smoking hot (and the girls are seriously SMOKING HOT,) everyone has sex and everyone gets butchered in unique and CREATIVE ways. The original featured a guy getting rolled down a hill in a barrel full of nails, this one is equally imaginitive -- a girl gets drawn and quartered even. The effects are cheap, none of that computer generated hooey. But every kill is marvelously gory and disgusting, with blood and body parts thrown all around.

Tongue's planted firmly in cheek the whole time, especially by the lead baddie, played by one Robert Englund, aka Freddy Krueger. But every stereotype you can possibly imagine is played up, lampooned and, in some cases, cut into pieces and fed to other people.

Seriously, a great bit of horror/camp fun. I think Herschell Gordon Lewis would be proud!

Anyone else seen it -- Broadway86?

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 4:57pm

Anyone else seen it -- Broadway86?

Ha! I've been wanting to see it, but I haven't gotten around to it.

Popa, if you want to see a wonderful little horror/comedy, seek out Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.

PS - I just saw that the role of Laurie Strode has been cast in Rob Zombie's Halloween. I'm so excited!!!

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 6:03pm

who is it? I think it is someone who had a guest stint on gilmore girls right?

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:06am

I think her name is Scout Taylor-Compton. Something like that.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:07am

Lok on my "Rob Zombie's Halloween" thread. It has all the casting so far.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:32am

That was filmed right here in my town! Robert Englund came into my bookstore one day when he had some time off and he could not be a more delightful human being. Soft spoken, well mannered, FUNNY... in fact, despite the Freddy Kreuger mantle I was just a little crushed out on him by the time I finished ringing him up. There were no other customers in the store at the time, and as we were talking he started relaxing and we were having a nice conversation. Unfortunately, some teenagers spotted him off the street and came in shouting "Freddy! Hey, Freddy! Blah blah blah Freddy!" He politely obliged a picture with them and then ran for safety.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 9:40am

I think if I met Robert I might scream and cry a little.

I'm not necessarily proud of that.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 10:55am

haha. I have an autographed picture of him.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:37pm

I'd love to meet him someday, in all his interviews he seems so personable. I have one of the Freddy dolls that got taken off the shelves for being too scary back in the 80's and I want him to sign the box so badly to just make hokey nostalgia 10x more cool

[wexy]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:52pm

And I thought that Natalie Merchant had lost 7,999 maniacs.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:58pm

My parents to this day still talk about seeing the original at the drive-in as a double feature with Bucket of Blood.