Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
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Title: Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
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Betsy
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The citizens of the southern town Pleasant Valley lure six Yankee tourists into town where they are to be the reluctant guests for the centennial celebration of the day a band of renegade Union troops decimated the town. The town then participates in events, a different event for each of the tourists, in which the tourist is dispatched. One couple begins to suspect something and seeks a way to escape. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
20 March 1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
2000 Maniacs See more »Filming Locations:
St. Cloud, Florida, USABox Office
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Policeman: Mister, I didn't say you was crazy. Nothing like that, I just think it's mighty peculiar!
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The comic book Harper is reading in the hotel is "Heart Throbs," issue 87, cover dated December 1963-January 1964. See more »Goofs
The mayor has been in limbo for 100 years since the civil war, yet he makes a paper aeroplane and in the classic school boy manner. There is no way he can know how to do this. See more »Quotes
Tom White: Look, officer, I don't know how to convince you of this, but... we're not crazy!Policeman: Mister, I didn't say you was crazy. Nothing like that, I just think it's mighty peculiar!
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"Two Thousand Maniacs" is a wonderful Brigadoon-esque film about two groups of Yankees who become guests of honors for the southern town of Pleasant Valley's centennial. What these "guests" don't realize, though, is that they are going to be murdered in bizarre (and I mean, BIZARRE) fashions because of a war lost by the south 100 years ago.
The festivities include a woman being dismembered and barbecued, a man being quartered with four horses, and the infamous "barrel roll" sequence where a man is pushed down a hill in a barrel that has nails driven into its sides.
The movie altogether has a wacky, feel-good charm (despite its gruesome nature) that keeps you smiling, and you'll surely be singing its theme song after the movie's over! I sure as hell was.