Two thousand maniacs!
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| Original title | Two thousand maniacs! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| script | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| production | David F. Friedman |
| music | Larry Wellington |
| camera | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| cut | Robert L. Sinise |
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Two thousand maniacs! is a low-budget film from the year 1964 under the direction and from a screenplay by Herschell Gordon Lewis . Two thousand maniacs! is an early example of the Splatter film and the second part of the so-called Blood Trilogy , which includes Blood Feast ( 1963 ) and Color Me Blood Red ( 1965 ).
action
Three couples of tourists from the northern states are lured to the small southern town of Pleasant Valley under the pretext of attending the town's centenary as guests of honor. As it turns out later, it means an orgy of revenge for the destruction of the city 100 years ago by Union troops . The tourists are separated and cruelly killed in fun fair-like games: a woman is mutilated with an ax and then roasted over a fire, a man is quartered by horses . The other victims die from a nailed barrel and rolling boulders. A couple escapes and notifies the state police. When they are about to return to the scene of the crime, they discover that Pleasant Valley has disappeared for them. At the end of the film, the villagers are looking forward to the next anniversary in 2065, when they will be able to get out of their graves again to take revenge on the northerners.
background
Two thousand maniacs! was shot for 15 days in the spring of 1964 in St. Cloud (Florida) , with many residents participating as extras. Two thousand maniacs! can be considered one of the earliest films of the Backwoods movie . This forms subgenre of horror films and has the theme that mostly people from civilization in a rural area meet degenerate natives (in this case southerners ) who hunt and murder them. Later examples of such films are Blood Court in Texas and Everyone's First To Die . In 2005 a remake was produced under the title 2001 Maniacs . Robert Englund took over the role of Mayor Buckman.
criticism
“ Two thousand maniacs! was shot for an audience in drive- in theaters in the American South. Lewis continued his violent fantasies from Blood Feast and increased the drama of the excesses in the course of the film. With his brutal representations , he goes 'a decisive step beyond the conventions of exploitation movies' . "
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Claude Romer, Alain Silver: Silver: A Bloody New Wave in the United States in Alain Silver, James Ursini: Horror Film Reader . New York: Limelight Editions, 2000. ISBN 0-87910-297-7 . Pp. 63-64.
- ↑ Graham, Allison. Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. ISBN 0-8018-7445-9 . Page 168-169.
- ↑ Georg Seeßlen / Fernand Jung: Horror - History and mythology of horror films. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2006. ISBN 3-89472-430-7 , p. 256.
Web links
- Two thousand maniacs! in the Internet Movie Database (English)