Maniac

Maniac

Flush from the breakthrough success of Blood Feast in 1963, producer David F. Friedman and pioneering goremeister Herschell Gordon Lewis followed up a year later with Two Thousand Maniacs!. The drive-in movie would never be the same. Filmed in 14 days in St. Cloud, Florida, on a luxurious budget of $62,000, this instant cult classic revels in the grisly fate of three unwitting Yankee couples who've been falsely detoured to the Southern hick town of Pleasant Valley (population 2000--get it?). These unlucky lovers are the guests of honor at a Confederate centennial celebration. What they don't know is that the twisted citizens of Pleasant Valley are vengeful ghosts of the Civil War, determined to dispatch their "guests" in deviously unpleasant ways. Simply put, Two Thousand Maniacs! (with Blood Feast) is the original "splatter" film. On the murder menu: death by amputation, dismemberment by horses (one per limb), crushing by boulder, and, the most unsettling (or creative?), death by barrel rolling... with flesh-ripping nails in the sides. Tame by later standards yet still absurdly shocking, Two Thousand Maniacs! is the pure, funny-freaky essence of exploitation cinema, complete with the obligatory Playboy Playmate (Connie Mason) in the cast. Lewis (a former literature professor, no less) frequently cited this as his proudest achievement, and who's going to argue? With its crude direction, atrocious acting, and delirious redneck flavor, the movie genuinely deserves its place in cinema history, its dubious entertainment value proving surprisingly durable through the decades. A milestone of movie bloodletting, it was followed, appropriately enough, by Color Me Blood Red in 1965. --Jeff Shannon

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Year:
1934
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Dr. Meirschultz:
Tonight, my dear Maxwell, I'm ready to try my experiment on a human!

Buckley:
Oh! Stealing through my body! Creeping though my veins! Pouring in my blood! Oh, DARTS OF FIRE IN MY BRAIN! STABBING ME! I CAN'T STAND IT! I WON'T!

Mazie:
Oh, lemme alone. I may not be decent, but I'm sure gonna be clean!

Maxwell:
It was in Miersholtz' eyes when he wanted to murder me. It was in Mrs. Buckley's eyes when she wanted to murder her husband. Alice had the gleam in her eye when she wanted to find me. She'd murder me! I must get rid of her. How? Mrs. Buckley! She will help. She must help!

Marvel:
It's pretty though. Imagine the poor guy. I'll betcha nobody knows him all his life, and then... Say, wasn't there some guy in history who spent all his life looking for an honest man?

Jo:
Sure! In his day, men were men, but now they're too scared to be anything but honest.

Maxwell:
Not only do I look like Meirschultz, I am Meirschultz!

Mrs. Buckley:
I think we speak the same language. I am right?

Maxwell:
I don't get what you mean. Same language?

Alice:
If it wasn't for nervy little Alice, you'd all be sinking your weary bones into the soft recesses of some park bench, with light sleepy coverlets made by the great American press.

Jo:
Press! That reminds me. I have pressing business.

Mrs. Buckley:
Doctor! He seems to be getting worse instead of better!

Masie:
Here's one for the books. "Sandwich man walks onto a wallet with forty-two grand in it."

Jo:
I'd like to find that man.

Masie:
Can you imagine? The darn fool turned it in.

Marvel:
His head must be a jellybean instead of what they thought it was!

Jo:
Why don't you ditch that ham and get yourself a rich husband.

Alice:
Rich husband? Hah! I've heared they come that way. Not very often.

Marvel:
Often enough, but not our way.

Alice:
Oh, the girl has brains!

Embalmer:
By gosh, them stiffs is gettin' heavier and more of them every day.

Embalmer:
You didn't even mention suicide.

Embalmer:
Say, did you see the “beaut” that come in today.

Embalmer:
She's the one that's got the coroner doin' the night work.

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