Happy Birthday to a Horror Legend! Robert Englund!
2001 Maniacs (2005)
(7/10): 2001 Maniacs is a remake of the splatter cult classic Two-Thousand Maniacs by Splatter inventor, Herschell Gordon Lewis with a darkly comedic tinge to it as well as a pretty great team behind it.
It's got Robert Englund as the lead antagonist as well as Lin Shaye in a secondary antagonist role and Scott Spiegel, Kane Hodder and Eli Roth in minor roles with Spiegel and Roth also being a couple of the many producers.
It's a simple premise, a group of high school students are on their spring break vacation and meet some hot girls who they plan to get together with at their beach house but a slight detour takes them through Pleasant Valley, an old timey US town celebrating their festival and they are all invited to be the guests of honour but some strange and disturbing incidents lead them to believe they are confederates but by that point the townsfolk have already begun their plans to off them one by one and cook them for their cannibalistic festivities.
Effects range from being pretty solid to being kinda moreso poorly aged cgi but they made a strong effort here and it works because of one reason, Robert Englund, aside from him everyone else is rather forgettable in their performance, except for maybe Lin Shaye.
It's got great set design and costumes that really drive home the aesthetic of the pre-war town.
It's a bloody good time, literally, and it's worth checking out if you're a fan of Robert Englund.
2001 Maniacs (2005)
(7/10): 2001 Maniacs is a remake of the splatter cult classic Two-Thousand Maniacs by Splatter inventor, Herschell Gordon Lewis with a darkly comedic tinge to it as well as a pretty great team behind it.
It's got Robert Englund as the lead antagonist as well as Lin Shaye in a secondary antagonist role and Scott Spiegel, Kane Hodder and Eli Roth in minor roles with Spiegel and Roth also being a couple of the many producers.
It's a simple premise, a group of high school students are on their spring break vacation and meet some hot girls who they plan to get together with at their beach house but a slight detour takes them through Pleasant Valley, an old timey US town celebrating their festival and they are all invited to be the guests of honour but some strange and disturbing incidents lead them to believe they are confederates but by that point the townsfolk have already begun their plans to off them one by one and cook them for their cannibalistic festivities.
Effects range from being pretty solid to being kinda moreso poorly aged cgi but they made a strong effort here and it works because of one reason, Robert Englund, aside from him everyone else is rather forgettable in their performance, except for maybe Lin Shaye.
It's got great set design and costumes that really drive home the aesthetic of the pre-war town.
It's a bloody good time, literally, and it's worth checking out if you're a fan of Robert Englund.