2001 Maniacs (2005)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Tim Sullivan

Writers:

Chris Kobin (writer)
Tim Sullivan (writer)

Release Date:

13 July 2006 (Thailand)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

You are what THEY eat!

Plot:

Eight college students traveling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia where they are set upon by the residents who are out to avenge their deaths by Union troops over 100 years earlier during the Civil War.

Plot Keywords:

Mayor | Georgia | Blood | Death | Severed Leg

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Robert Englund	...	Mayor Buckman
Lin Shaye	...	Granny Boone
Giuseppe Andrews	...	Harper Alexander
Jay Gillespie	...	Anderson Lee
Marla Malcolm	...	Joey (as Marla Leigh Malcom)
Dylan Edrington	...	Nelson
Matthew Carey	...	Cory
Peter Stormare	...	Professor Ackerman
Gina Marie Heekin	...	Kat
Brian Gross	...	Ricky
Mushond Lee	...	Malcolm
Bianca Smith	...	Leah
Brendan McCarthy	...	Rufus
Adam Robitel	...	Lester
Christa Campbell	...	Milk Maiden

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gruesome images, sexuality/nudity and language.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:R | Germany:18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | UK:18 | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Finland:K-18

Filming Locations:

LaGrange, Georgia, USA

Company:

BloodWorks

Trivia:

Cameo: [Kane Hodder]The man who seizes Anderson right before the big fight between Anderson and Mayor Buckman (Robert Englund). This might be a reference to 'Freddy vs. Jason', as (Kane Hodder) played Jason Voorhees (in Friday the 13th VII, VIII, Jason goes to Hell, and Jason X) , and (Robert Englund) played Freddy Kreuger.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the end when the bike drives through the barb wire it cuts through the girls head higher than the guys even though he's lower down on the bike.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Professor Ackerman: Unprecedented, historical categories. More Americans died in the so-called Civil War than in the two World Wars combined. 618,000. Although popular media usually portrays the Civil War as a series of epic battles for honor and glory the reality is far from either. General Sherman's march through South Carolina alone cost over 8,000 innocent Southerners their lives.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Inside the Asylum: The Making of '2001 Maniacs' (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

The Boy Wants His Bitch

Just another forgettable horror film trying to be cute

I'm really sick of this type of horror film---slick and glossy and trying so hard to be cute and witty.This is just another waste of time in a horror fan's quest to find the good horror films.These people ripped off HG Lewis and still managed to make a lame movie.

A group of college kids head to Daytona on spring break and get detoured through a small southern town and are the guests to the town BBQ.You can pretty much figure out the rest from there.Lots of rubber heads spewing watery looking blood and body parts here and there.The usual standard crap film stuff.A silly almost nonexistent plot and sub-par acting and no suspense at all makes this film lame as a wet noodle.Even the few bare breasts thrown in couldn't save this movie.Robert Englund does a decent enough job with the silly lines he was given but all the other folks in this film were pretty rotten actors.The writing was awful as well---just a bunch of catchphrases and lines meant to sound cool strung together in one scene after another.

I really hate horror movie directors that keep churning out these kinds of cutesy witless horror movies full of dim-bulb teens just standing around waiting to get killed in some supposedly new horrible way.

I've seen enough dead teens to last a lifetime.It's time for horror film directors to move on down the road to something else.