Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Two Thousand Maniacs

     This is the second installment of H.G. Lewis' "Blood Trilogy". It attempts to out gore its predecessor "Blood Feast" but the story is so damned boring that you hardly notice all the extra blood. 

      A small town is celebrating the 100th year anniversary of the Civil War. To celebrate, the townsfolk trap people by putting detour signs along the main road, to lead hapless victims to their quaint little town of terror. They then kill these people in odd and tortuous ways (all of which are totally hilarious to this town of weirdos). A woman gets crushed by a boulder in a dunking booth-type contraption. A man is rolled downhill in a barrel lined with nails. It's all in good fun though, and later there will be a huge feast... on a beautiful blonde. Apparently, blondes are a delicacy in the South. 

      Some of the trapped "tourists" manage to figure out what's going on (which is a pretty hard concept to grasp, considering how incredibly nice everyone is) and try to get the hell out of there. Almost all of H.G. Lewis' movies are pretty gory and disturbing but with a tinge of humor to the whole thing. The humor in "Blood Feast" seemed very accidental. Maybe H.G. recognized this and just went with it because it showed more and more with each movie he made thereafter. Intentional humor certainly abounds in this sick little flick.

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