2001 MANIACS

2001 MANIACS
By Larra

College kids on spring break go on a detour full of southern hostility. After a run in with their history professor (Peter Stormare) our group of guys end up on an ironic detour into their very own private history lesson.

From director Tim Sullivan comes a cheesy, fun, freak-fest of a film with a
tongue-in-cheek sense of humor suitable for the late-night drive-in or fun-time at home with the DVD player.

Based from the original Herschell Gordon Lewis classic 2000 Maniacs, this film takes you on a detour from hell through the deep south, where chicken ain’t the only thang bein’ deep-fried!

A group of college kids are headed out for Spring-Break, (along the way bumping into hitch-hiker Eli Roth, tossing his dead armadillo at passing cars, as well as a young banjo player and a freaky gas station attendant played by Travis Tritt) until they are detoured through the back-roads of the south and wind-up in a quaint town known as Pleasant Valley.

Oddly entertaining, Pleasant Valley, hosted by Mayor Buckman (Robert Englund), peaks the interest of the city-wise kids (along with an inter-racial couple of bikers) with their simple, southern hospitality and convince the travelers to stick around for the ‘annual festival’ with lots of free food, hot-southern gals, fun and games.

Little do our multi-racial detoured realize THEY are the guests of honor (of sorts) in a sick and twisted Civil-War gore-fest where the confederate flag still flies high!

Great entertainment and creative killings ensue, for example; a girl drawn and quartered by four horses, a human shish-ka-bob and a black man killed in a cotton gin (irony anyone?). All the while, strolling minstrels (Johnny Legend & Scott Spiegel) are singing merry tunes to fit the mood.

A fantastic flick so diverse from the crap we’ve had to sit through lately, 2001 MANIACS keeps you entertained with gore, humor and creativity (and not to mention quite a few cameos!).