hellraiser7 Warning do not read unless seen film.This film is another of those guilty pleasures of mine and strangely it's actually a favorate of mine from Herchell Gordon Lewis. Yeah, I'm a fan of the director whom is considered the "Godfather of Gore" and rightful so because he was the first or one of the first to utilze Gore effects at a time when it wasn't common. And yes, as usual it's low brow entertainment but the best kind (or as good as it can get).There really isn't much to say, I feel like what seperates this film from most of his past works is that it has an actually story line. This film is loosely based on a supernatural legend on a town that appears and disappears every year. I think that kinda a cool premise and shows you can do more with the supernatural subgenere, most of the time the ghost action is confined in a house, abandoned institute, or any other confined space, but here it's a whole town which means tons of ghosts, which also means the odds are not in the protagonists favor. This film is also more of a black comedy than horror as it really doesn't take itself too seriously, though there are horror elements as it has it's share of suspense and kills.Characters they serve their functions, let alone they act as best they can with whatever ability or lack there of they have (Herchell's film always had unknowns). However, to me the one's that stand out are the Mayor, Rufus and his friend with him, I really like how they play off of each other their both funny, menicing and clever. I really like how they put themselves out at first making themselves seem like typical friendly stereotypical town yokels but that's all an act just so their victims easily drop their defenses and maneuver them right where they want them, which can be kinda scarry. But they have a lot of really memorable and fun lines and despite each of them not really trained actors or just local talent all three of them actually did very well.I even like that twangy theme song which is fun, it's a hick song but it fits the film. However like in all of Herchell's films were all really in it for the gore effects and kills which it delivers in spades. I won't say too much but I like how each of the kills are made of as games which are by their nature colorful executions; let alone the fact that the effects are all practical and still look good to this day. Two of my favorates are one the barell roll where nails are hamered and the person takes a one way train straight toward their doom. And another kinda like the dunk tank only it's not water that coming down it's a boulder. This in a way is a different kind of horror because like in the slacher films your glad your not in the person's position but also you can't help but want to see the outcome of the person's circumstances, dispite how repulsive and bloody it is you can't look away because theres a repulsive beauty in the destruction, if you catch my drift.If your a gorehound and either have or have not heard of Herchall Gordon Lewis then this film is worth a look.Rating: 3 stars

JoeB131 This movie was produced by Gordon Herschell Lewis, the "Splatter King" of Hollywood who made a lot of the grind house exploitation films of that period when the Hayes Code was disintegrating.The plot is that six Northerners are detoured into a town that was wiped out during the Civil War, but somehow the ghosts of the victims are able to manifest themselves in contemporary clothing for the purpose of killing six northerners in gruesome ways. They in fact only kill four, but somehow, that's good enough.I'm guessing the kills are supposed to be impressive for the time, but are tame by today's standards. The victims are as dumb as people in these movies always are.So I give this movie a few props for being the first movie to come up with the "Deranged rural folk kill stupid urban folk" meme. Not sure if that's something to be proud of, given how quickly the genre degenerated into illogic.

KevinB12 I must assure you that I did not find this movie interesting nor did I approve. Perhaps a remake of the movie without the cat and a different ending should be a better idea because I found the ending very unfair. Even this is not the movie that I like, I could not tolerate this. The remake should replace a cat with pigs. The ending should have the all the maniacs dead by the National Guard and the military which I think this is a better ending for a remake. I think I should not bother with Two Thousand Maniacs because I do not find this movie interesting because I do not tolerate this kind of movie. I prefer not to watch this movie even if the Blood Trilogy comes out on Blu-Ray.

preppy-3 **PLOT SPOILERS ALL THROUGHOUT THIS REVIEW** Early gore film. It's about this town in Georgia called Pleasant Valley that was destroyed by the Yankees during the Civil War in 1864. It magically reappears a hundred years later and six Northerners are purposely detoured there to be killed off.The second gore film by the immortal Hershell Gordon Lewis. This followed "Blood Feast" which was an (inexplicable) hit. Like the first this has a stupid story, lousy acting (although Connie Mason did improve from the first one) and terrible direction. This was made just to show some likable people being killed off in bloody ways. One woman is gorily dismembered; another woman is crushed by a boulder; a man is drawn and quartered and another guy is rolled down a hill in a barrel studded with nails! The gore is, by todays standards, pretty poor and there's buckets of blood used in each killing. Also the womens murders are protracted and pretty sick--Lewis seems to take a sick kind of delight in showing them. Aside from all the murders this is surprisingly dull. The pathetic acting and script don't help at all. I'm just giving this a 2 only because it's slightly better than "Blood Feast".