2001 Maniacs (2005)

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 | Blood | Georgia | Death | Remake

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
Wendy Kremer	...	Peaches
Cristin Michele	...	Glendora
Kodi Kitchen	...	Hester
Ryan Fleming	...	Hucklebilly
Johnny Legend	...	Strolling Minstrel #1
Scott Spiegel	...	Strolling Minstrel #2
Eli Roth	...	Justin
Craig Stark	...	Sheriff Friedman
Travis Tritt	...	Gas Station Attendant
Hugh Casey	...	Reverend Jonas
Bill McKinney	...	The Chef
Isaac C. Singleton Jr.	...	The Butcher (as Isaac Singleton Jr.)
Kevin 'Pondo' Canady	...	Blacksmith
Kane Hodder	...	Jason
Andy Mantineo	...	Giblet
Jacob Hair	...	Onion Joe
Tim Sullivan	...	Coffin Harry
Cleave Frink	...	Uncle Sammy
Amanda Tuffin	...	Little Maniac
William 'Billy' Burnside	...	Banjo Boy
Cassandra Hepburn	...	Anderson's girlfriend
Rachel Howard	...	Drool girl
Jezebel	...	Herself
Christy Conner	...	Additional Maniac
Jed Strahm	...	Additional Maniac
Raina Ashley Strickland	...	Additional Maniac
Pauline Tweedy	...	Additional Maniac
Robert Harrison	...	Additional Maniac
Steve Wilson	...	Additional Maniac
William Sempel Spiegel	...	Additional Maniac (as William Sempel Spiegel IV)
Lisette Bross	...	Additional Maniac
Evil Wilhelm	...	Additional Maniac
Wilfred Biggs	...	Additional Maniac (as Wilfred Briggs)
Tara Greer	...	Additional Maniac
Stuart Spiegel	...	Additional Maniac
Vincent Malouf	...	Additional Maniac
Travis S. Baker	...	Additional Maniac (as Travis Baker)
Amanda Spiegel	...	Additional Maniac
Richard Tanne	...	Additional Maniac
Russ Place	...	Additional Maniac
Kerby Norris	...	Additional Maniac
Tim Quill	...	Additional Maniac
Dan Hicks	...	Additional Maniac
Scott Warner	...	Additional Maniac
Rich King	...	Additional Maniac (as Richard King)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anthony Cancelliere	...	Shadow figure (uncredited)
Matthew Miles Carter	...	Additional Maniac (uncredited)
Chad Hudson	...	Squirrel Boy (uncredited)
Christopher Nathaniel	...	Young Lover (uncredited)
Topper	...	Dr. Mambo (uncredited)

Directed by
Tim Sullivan

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Chris Kobin		writer
Tim Sullivan		writer

Produced by
Jonathan Bross	....	executive producer
Lisette Bross	....	associate producer
David Fleming	....	associate producer
David F. Friedman	....	co-executive producer
Eric Miller	....	co-producer
Brett W. Nemeroff	....	producer
Eli Roth	....	producer
Scott Spiegel	....	producer
Christopher Tuffin	....	producer
C. Scott Votaw	....	co-producer
Boaz Yakin	....	producer

Original Music by
Nathan Barr

Cinematography by
Steve Adcock

Film Editing by
Michael Ross

Casting by
Aaron Griffith

Set Decoration by
Lori Mazuer

Costume Design by
Wendy Moynihan

Makeup Department
Wendy Arthur	....	assistant makeup artist
Wendy Boscon	....	hair department head
Wendy Boscon	....	makeup department head
Grady Holder	....	makeup effects technician: K.N.B. EFX Group
Corinna Liebel	....	makeup artist
Heather Mages	....	key makeup artist
Heather Mages	....	special makeup effects artist
Honey Secunda	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Liz Amsden	....	production manager: additional shooting
Duane Journey	....	executive in charge of production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jasmine Alhambra	....	key second assistant director
Tansey Allen	....	second assistant director
Christy Busby	....	second second assistant director
T.S. O'Kelly	....	first assistant director
Rafael Orozco	....	first assistant director
Scott Spiegel	....	second unit director

Art Department
Jacob Hair	....	storyboard artist
Mark Kelly	....	property master
Stewart McAlpine	....	art department assistant
Matt Neel	....	props
Mark Richardson	....	property master

Sound Department
Mark Allen	....	design effects editor
Craig Clark	....	sound re-recording mixer
Mick Davies	....	boom operator
Susan Fitz-Simon	....	foley artist
Jeremy Grody	....	adr editor
Trevor Jolly	....	supervising sound editor
Danny Kim	....	sound effects editor
Maciek Malish	....	adr editor
Colin Rogers	....	adr foley mixer
Craig Schafer	....	sound re-recording mixer
Allan Schultz	....	sound editor

Special Effects by
David A. Brooke	....	special effects makeup
Ron Karkoska	....	special effects makeup
Roy Knyrim	....	special effects supervisor
Patrick Tantalo	....	special effects foreman
Barbara Vazquez	....	special effects assistant
Robert Vazquez	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Michael F. Hoover	....	digital animation supervisor
Robert Kurtzman	....	visual effects supervisor
Al Magliochetti	....	visual effects
Mike Ocoboc	....	digital compositor
Iva Petkova	....	digital effects artist
Peter Profetto	....	compositor
Franklin Purtiman	....	digital effects artist
Andrew Sagar	....	digital compositor
Vincent Toscano	....	digital effects artist
Alan Tuskes	....	digital effects artist
Radost Yonkova	....	visual effects compositor

Stunts
Scott Dale	....	stunt coordinator
Brian Todd	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Chris Burgon	....	best boy electric
Danielle C. Carroll	....	film loader: additional photography
Adam Castro	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Andrew Clarke	....	gaffer: second unit
David C. Edwards	....	second assistant camera
John P. Fleenor	....	electrician
Michelle Hemion	....	camera loader
Tommy James Lewis	....	first assistant camera
J. Steven Matzinger	....	director of photography: second unit
Jim McKinney	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Jim McKinney	....	director of photography: second unit
Justin Pagel	....	dolly grip
Rell Putt	....	key grip
Rocky Rodriguez	....	electrician

Casting Department
Shawn Barber	....	additional casting assistant
Kelly Hunt	....	additional casting
Rich King	....	additional casting
Debbie Rothstein	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Danielle Wait	....	costumer: re-shoots

Editorial Department
Wilton Cruz	....	additional editor
Janell Fletcher	....	post-production coordinator
Jason Jensen	....	post-production assistant
Evan Schiff	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Hrishikesh Hirway	....	music editor
Jonathan McHugh	....	music supervisor
Mark Skillingberg	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Tony Barattini	....	transportation captain: re-shoots
Dale Combs	....	transportation captain
Greag Waldrop	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Gloria Winship Ayon	....	animal coordinator
Travis S. Baker	....	assistant to producers
Janella Bersabal	....	office production assistant
Katie Di Lallo	....	assistant: Mr Tuffin
Katrina Francis	....	digital effects intern
Micah Gallo	....	intern
Sherie Giehtbrock	....	additional script supervisor
Shawn M. Gray	....	set production assistant
Brynn Healy	....	set production assistant
Tony Holley	....	production assistant
Chad Hudson	....	production assistant
Jason Jensen	....	intern
James Kaplan	....	key set production assistant
Jake Kennedy	....	production assistant
Maeve Mannion	....	production accountant
Robin Meyers	....	script supervisor
Andrew Novak	....	office production assistant: additional photography
Pablo C. Pappano	....	intern
Bobby Peoples	....	production assistant
Kim Percival	....	production coordinator
Jed Strahm	....	assistant to head of production
Richard Tanne	....	assistant to producers

Thanks
Forrest J Ackerman	....	special thanks
Wilfred Biggs	....	special thanks
John Landis	....	special thanks
Adam Rifkin	....	special thanks
Richard Ryan	....	special thanks
Rod Stewart	....	special thanks
Bill Teitelbaum	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• BloodWorks
• Raw Nerve
• Velvet Steamroller Entertainment

Distributors

• Benelux Film Distribution (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Lions Gate Films (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• West (2006) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Aurum Producciones (2006) (Spain) (all media)
• California Filmes (2006) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Filmes Castello Lopes (2006) (Portugal) (all media)
• Force Entertainment (2006) (Australia) (DVD)
• Lionsgate (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• M Pictures (2006) (Thailand) (DVD)
• Momentum Pictures (2005) (UK) (all media)
• New Films (2006) (Bulgaria) (DVD)
• Nordisk Film (2006) (Denmark) (DVD)
• Nu Metro Productions (2006) (South Africa) (all media)
• Oy Nordisk Film (2006) (Finland) (DVD)
• Presidio (2006) (Japan) (all media)
• RTL Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing) (RTL7)
• Skífan (2006) (Iceland) (all media)
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Village Roadshow Greece S.A. (2006) (Greece) (DVD)

Special Effects

• S.O.T.A. FX

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  dollies
• Jetplane Films  titles
• Roundabout Entertainment  sound re-recording

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:

Some crew members also had a minor role as "Additional Maniac" in this movie. They were even credited for this role.

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:

References "Hee Haw" (1969)

Soundtrack:

Pushin' Up Daisies

"Over the top" is just scratching the surface...

Those already familiar with the original will know what they've gotten themselves into as our main characters follow a bogus Detour sign—just after narrowly avoiding Justin and Professor Mambo, character favorites from CABIN FEVER who are trying to hitch a ride—and arrive in the town of Pleasant Valley, whose residents are hard at work preparing for their weekend "Guts and Glory Jubilee." Soon the Confederate knife fodder arrive with Yankee good looks and are declared "guests of honor" by the one-eyed Mayor Buckman, played pitch-perfect by everybody's favorite sadist, Robert (Freddy Krueger) Englund. But what else can you expect when there's a population of, you guessed it, 2001…maniacs, that is! What follows, surprisingly given our times and political climate, is refreshingly vulgar, completely un-PC and, much like the original, an expected excuse for extremely sadistic humor and gore. Where the first film now seems boring and slow, the new version is upbeat and well-paced. Happily and sadly, the first and only fully clothed female victim to get tied up and quartered by horses is the film's only waste of T in a movie overflowing with T&A. Many viewers may be offended by the black humor and straight-up racist jokes that pepper the film's dialogue, but those of you can rest assured that everyone gets their due by the end. It'll be interesting to see how the red states will react to such a searing and scabrous document of the South. Englund seems to imbue Mayor Buckman with a well-judged imitation of President Bush, and even the lives of his two sons in the film appear to closely ape those of the Bush daughters.

Longtime Lewis fans will be ecstatic that much, if not all, of his score from the original has been transferred to the new film by way of musical narrators Johnny Legend and his strumming sidekick Scott Spiegel. Somewhat in the vein of THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, these musical country bumpkins pop up from time to time, like Sullivan's version of a Greek Chorus, hinting at the dangers to soon befall our ethnically and morally diverse blue state victims. "The South will rise again!" The supporting cast is stocked with many fine new actors and veterans of the genre. Fans will enjoy the cool seething evil of Giuseppe Andrews (Fever's Deputy Winston) as he kills Yankee belles with kindness, and Lin Shaye (fast on her way to becoming a middle-aged scream queen after her role in the haunting DEAD END), who stars as Granny Boone, the murderous matriarch of Pleasant Valley. One day, this fine actress will hopefully be cast in a role that capitalizes on her real-life beauty and sassy charm; in the meantime, she here has a ball pushing the envelope, as when she sucks the red gore off a spear protruding from the gullet of a hapless victim! Newcomer Jay Gillespie evokes a REAL GENIUS or TOP GUN-era Val Kilmer with stern good looks and a thrill for the action around him. The rest of the MANIACS cast seem to be having fun with the bloody lowbrow horror and are in on the joke, all ready to "take one for the team" and die in a less-than-flattering manner. As each member is dispatched, you can tell they were having a great time taking it to the next level. This is a movie where "over the top" is just scratching the surface. Just ask Peaches, the Southern belle who wears a "retainer" that would make the shark in JAWS envious when she "services" a good ol' boy! (He doesn't last long.) By the third reel, characters are walking around town all alone for no good reason, so we know they aren't going to end up much better than their missing brethren. Then Sullivan and crew punch up the action a bit with a scene that doesn't necessarily match the vibe of everything we've seen thus far, but has a maggot-worthy moment that makes up for the switch in tone. If you're looking to get scared, this is not exactly the right film, but if you're familiar with Lewis and his brand of goremongering, you'll squirm, screech and then writhe with laughter. 2001 MANIACS has all the elements of a good time yet still raises a dialogue among viewers that not many have had the balls to address in horror, or film-making in general, since the '70s.