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Film number two in Herschell Gordon Lewis's blood trilogy and
considered by many of his fans (and the director and producers
themselves) to be the best of the group. The basic story of
Two Thousand Maniacs is that every 100 years a southern town
that suffered at the hands of a group of Yankee soldiers during
the Civil War takes its revenge on a group of Yankee outsiders.
Among the acts of revenge are dropping a huge boulder on a woman,
dismembering a person by having four horses pull ropes attached
to a guys limbs and rolling a person down a hill in a barrel
with nails in it. The gore scenes in this movie are not quite
as shocking as the one in Blood Feast but they still work quite
well. On every level this movie is better than Blood Feast.
The story is better, the acting is improved and the film even
has a few production values. That being said, for some reason
the shock and goofiness of Blood Feast I found more entertaining.
Any fan of gore should put this towards the top of their must
see list.
As with Blood Feast
the video and audio quality are solid. Just like Blood Feast
the real fun in this DVD is listening to the commentary with
Mr. Lewis and Mr. Friedman. You can really tell that those guys
loved what the were able to achieve with next to no money.
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