Two Thousand Maniacs!

Infobox Film
name = Two Thousand Maniacs!


caption = Promotional poster for "2000 Maniacs"
director = Herschell Gordon Lewis
producer = David F. Friedman
writer = Herschell Gordon Lewis
starring = William Kerwin
Connie Mason
Jeffrey Allen
music = Larry Wellington
cinematography = Herschell Gordon Lewis
editing = Robert Sinise
distributor = Box Office Spectaculars
released = March 20, 1964
runtime = 87 min.
country = flagicon|USA USA
language = English
budget = $65,000 (estimated)
website =
amg_id = 1:167
imdb_id = 0058694|

"Two Thousand Maniacs!" is a low budget 1964 splatter film directed and written by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It is the second part of what the director's fans have dubbed "The Blood Trilogy," including "Blood Feast" (1963) and "Color Me Blood Red" (1965).

The film is known for its scenes of full color gore and torture, as well as for "B-movie" type direction and acting. The film and the its director attracted a cult following, largely due to the over the top quality of the violence and the villains. It was remade in 2005 as "2001 Maniacs", starring film actor Robert Englund.

The film's title song was written and sung by director Lewis. The movie would later inspire the name of the band 10,000 Maniacs.

ynopsis

Six Yankee tourists are lured into the small southern town of Pleasant Valley by the redneck citizens to be the guests of honor for the centennial celebration of the day Union troops destroyed the town. The tourists are separated and forced to participate in various sick games which lead to their gory deaths.

Production

"Two Thousand Maniacs!" was filmed in 15 days, early in 1964, in the town of St. Cloud, Florida. According to a contemporary report, the entire town participated in the film. [Romer, Jean-Claude, Silver Alain (trans.) "A Bloody New Wave in the United States" (July 1964), in Silver, Alain & Ursini, James (eds.) "Horror Film Reader". New York: Limelight Editions, 2000. ISBN 0-87910-297-7. p. 63-64.]

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058694 Two Thousand Maniacs! on IMDb]