Eight college students travelling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia, where they are set upon by the residents.Eight college students travelling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia, where they are set upon by the residents.Eight college students travelling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia, where they are set upon by the residents.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Marla Malcolm
- Joey
- (as Marla Leigh Malcom)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSome crew members also had a minor role as "Additional Maniac" in this movie. They were even credited for this role.
- GoofsObvious usage of dummies at times for the death sequences.
- Quotes
Kat: [about to be drawn and quartered] I think this might be taking it just a little bit too far.
Harper Alexander: Frankly, Miss Pussy, I don't give a damn.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Inside the Asylum: The Making of '2001 Maniacs' (2006)
- SoundtracksThe South is Gonna Rise Again
(On-Camera Strolling Minstrels Version)
Music and Lyrics by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Featured review
In the 2000s, it seemed a fad to take old cult horror movies and remake them. Sometimes it worked, most of the time it didn't. This one at least went out of its way to expand on the mythos of its predecessor
Should anyone be given the role of Mayor Buford, one should devour the scenery. Robert Englund, bless his heart, does just that, and in the most delightfully cheesy manner. The victims, downgraded from rational adults to a bunch of obnoxious college students, deserve no sympathy to the point that in the first five minutes, you just want all of them to die.
The violence is admirable, only one of the death scenes is a callback to the original. Blood effects are standard 2005 slasher movie level but they're gruesome all the same. The writers got creative and they get props.
In this modernized version, minority victims are introduced, an African-American man and an Asian woman, both of whom are subject to racism. But this is expected as the antagonists, after all, are Civil War era Southerners. That said, this movie is in no short supply of Southern popular culture references, mostly to Gone with the Wind.
All in all, when comparing to the 1964 Herschell Gordon Lewis cult classic, 2001 Maniacs is simply a contemporary upgrade but watch it as a standalone, it's okay.
Should anyone be given the role of Mayor Buford, one should devour the scenery. Robert Englund, bless his heart, does just that, and in the most delightfully cheesy manner. The victims, downgraded from rational adults to a bunch of obnoxious college students, deserve no sympathy to the point that in the first five minutes, you just want all of them to die.
The violence is admirable, only one of the death scenes is a callback to the original. Blood effects are standard 2005 slasher movie level but they're gruesome all the same. The writers got creative and they get props.
In this modernized version, minority victims are introduced, an African-American man and an Asian woman, both of whom are subject to racism. But this is expected as the antagonists, after all, are Civil War era Southerners. That said, this movie is in no short supply of Southern popular culture references, mostly to Gone with the Wind.
All in all, when comparing to the 1964 Herschell Gordon Lewis cult classic, 2001 Maniacs is simply a contemporary upgrade but watch it as a standalone, it's okay.
- Galop_Inferno
- Jan 4, 2020
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $368,976
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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