And they just completely put their plans on hold because they get put in a crappy hotel by some of the most annoying and creepy people ever? Pfft, they deserved what they got, I'm not sorry to say.Īnd what do they get? Well, those are the fun scenes! The people have come up with some impressive ways to kill their guests, obviously modeled after what was done to them a hundred years ago. Our Yanks don't know any of this at first, of course, and prove to be excellent fodder for the townspeople because they are absolutely ridiculous to believe that they would be special guests for a random town's centennial. So now one hundred years later the town is out for vengeance against whatever Yankees they can get.

You see, back during the war a bunch of soldiers rolled through the town and pretty much killed everybody just 'cause they could. Two couples in one car and a woman and the man she picked up hitchhiking are in the other car - and six just happens to be the magic number that Pleasant Valley needs to carry out their evil deeds. Our victims are two different groups of young lovelies traveling the countryside in hot convertibles going. It gives the movie a sense of mystery that it might not really deserve and it sure makes a hell of a lot more interesting than it could have turned out to be. The ending of this film could be seen as complete malarky to others but, dangit, I liked it. I loved the concept behind The Wizard of Gore, and now Two Thousand Maniacs with its whole all-the-town-is-crazy-and-kills-these-people-in-awesome-ways things is really making love the man. off about them, or there's some kind of twist that is so weird but at the same time still works.

With the exception maybe of The Gruesome Twosome, his films don't seem to be of the standard fare that would come in later decades - there's always something just a bit. One thing I'm really enjoying about Lewis's movies are the stories. But the people of Pleasant Valley have some very gruesome events in store for their guests, as revenge for wrongs committed against their town during the Civil War. Two groups of travelers find themselves in the little town of Pleasant Valley, where they seem to be 'special guests' for the town's centennial celebration.

Two thousand maniacs