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Two Thousand Maniacs! is a 1964 American horror film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and starring 1963 Playboy Playmate Connie Mason. It follows a group of Northern tourists who are savagely tortured and murdered during a Confederate celebration of a small Southern community's centennial .
Apr 23, 2023 · In the 1964 grindhouse horror film, Two Thousand Maniacs, directed by the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Gore” Herschel Gordon Lewis, six people are lured to the town of Pleasant Valley,...
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Mar 22, 2017 · So it might seem surprising that the band took its name rather hastily, adapting the title of a 1964 gorefest called Two Thousand Maniacs! by renowned B-movie auteur Herschell Gordon Lewis,...
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With Connie Mason, William Kerwin, Jeffrey Allen, Shelby Livingston. 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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Two Thousand Maniacs! (as known as 2000 Maniacs!) is a 1964 splatter film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It is the second part of what the director's fans have dubbed "The Blood Trilogy", a trio of films starting with 1963's Blood Feast and ending with 1965's Color Me Blood Red...
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.
Jul 31, 2020 · Two Thousand Maniacs’ gore gags are creatively constructed to be macabre carnival games, skirting the line between hilarity and horror in a way the director would never quite capture again (Wizard of Gore [1970] comes the closest, but is way too mean-spirited).
