Two Thousand Maniacs!
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| Two Thousand Maniacs! | |
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 Promotional poster for 2000 Maniacs |
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| Directed by | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Produced by | David F. Friedman |
| Written by | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Starring | William Kerwin, Connie Mason, Jeffrey Allen |
| Music by | Larry Wellington |
| Cinematography | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Editing by | Robert Sinise |
| Distributed by | Box Office Spectaculars |
| Release date(s) | March 20, 1964 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $65,000 (estimated) |
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Two Thousand Maniacs! is a low budget 1964 splatter film directed and written by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Two Thousand Maniacs! 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 has been noted for extreme gore and violence, as well as for bad direction and bad acting. Nevertheless, the film and the director attracted a cult following, largely due to the gleefully over the top quality of the violence and the villains. It was remade in 2005 as 2001 Maniacs, starring horror legend Robert Englund. The film's title song was sung by director Lewis.
[edit] Synopsis
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 death.
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| Films directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis |
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| The Prime Time (1960) • Living Venus (1960) • The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961) • Daughter of the Sun (1962) • Nature's Playmates (1962) • Goldilocks and The Three Bares (1963) • BOING-N-G! (1963) • Scum of the Earth (1963) • Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963) • Blood Feast (1963) • Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) • Moonshine Mountain (1964) • Color Me Blood Red (1965) • Monster A Go-Go (1965) • Sin, Suffer and Repent (1965) • An Eye For An Eye (1966) • Jimmy the Boy Wonder (1966) • The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967) • Suburban Roulette (1967) • A Taste of Blood (1967) • Something Weird (1967) • The Gruesome Twosome (1967) • The Girl, The Body and The Pill (1967) • Blast-Off Girls (1967) • She Devils on Wheels (1968) • Just for the Hell of It (1968) • How To Make a Doll (1968) • The Psychic (1968) • Linda and Abilene (1969) • The Ecstasies of Women (1969) • The Wizard of Gore (1970) • Miss Nymphet's Zap-In (1970) • This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971) • Black Love (1972) • Year of the Yahoo! (1972) • The Gore Gore Girls (1972) • Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) |
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