Moviesarefun 2001 maniacs is essentially a grind house movie if you look at it. The story is the third most important part of the film, after gore and sex. That being said, i do not really mind that since i am a fan of gore myself.The plot in the movie is not anything new, a bunch of teenagers gets into trouble with the supernatural. You have seen that several times if your a fan of horror. What makes this movie better than average is the fact that it's self avare of it. It doesn't try to be the shining or something like that, instead we get pure grind house fun. The camera is even outdated for the time, a pretty classic grind house team (since they were made on a shoestring budget).Robert Englund is great as the main villain (As always), the main cast of teens are bad and the acting overall from them is stale and uninspiring. What makes this movie fun to watch is the interaction of the teens (Bad acting) with the townspeople (mostly good acting). The plot moves along with a decent speed so you are never bored with it, and the climax is pretty good.Another thing that really make it feel like a grind house aside from the gore and the sex are the fact that it is not scared of taking the low road. It's rare to have such strong language in horror movies that are mainstream produced as this one has. "Boy, Negro, Chinaman (Sorry, Chinawoman) and such. Its a movie that doesn't care at all and is just out to entertain you.Is it better than 2000 maniacs? No, it is. not Is it a bad movie? Yes it is, but it's also a pretty decent one. Once again, that is if you see this movie as a grind house movie, which it really isn't, but there are strong influence by the grind house cinema in it. The best part of this movie is the kills, that isn't anything strange since that's true 90% of the time when there is a body count. But there is also a pretty fun dark humor in this film that doesn't go unnoticed.

rls0812 This is the funniest horror movie I have ever watched. It starts off as a light comedy, but becomes darker humor while the movie goes on, as more and more is revealed! For once, a bargain bin movie in my collection has a real plot line, with tangible suspense ! The acting is mostly good, the "southerns" creating a believable ( and sometimes funny ) setting. The mayor of the town ( featured on the box cover ) plays a wide range of emotions, from happy, to shocked, to frustrated. Though the jokes are mostly corny one liners, the settings and situations can make it funnier, or darker, depending on the mood.The horror part was done nicely also. I have seen most of he kills done in other movies before, BUT the way they are done does not shout out "bad cliché", instead they tend to add to the dark mood, and cast the "southerns" in a more villain role as time passes. At the end I was thinking to myself, "Wow this was a decent comedy, and great horror film" !I found a box art error on my DVD case ... on the back, the mayor's eye patch is on the wrong side

Arlis Fuson It's spring break and all the kids head off to Daytona, but are mislead down a detour that ends them up in a hillbilly heaven...or hell as they soon learn. The people all have southern hospitality and the kids think its a Cival War reenactment, but soon find out they are cannibals ghosts of the dead soldiers and families from centuries before.I liked this film, although its a remake of Hershel Gordon Lewis' 64 classic it really isn't a carbon copy. It is completely original on ideas and methods of killing. Lewis did his movie in a time when it was rare to see blood and guts, but in 2005 when this one was made it was just another horror flick. It did have lots of blood and gore and also something that is missing from many horror movies...sex and nudity. I loved that aspect of it, it was loaded with sexuality, even homosexuality and I think sex is great in horrors.The kids playing these parts were your average jerks that you actually wanted to see die, it was a slasher lovers fantasy to see them taken out one by one.The direction was OK, and the music was fun and appropriate, the hillbilly ways seemed authentic and I must say its a nice film. Very 80's feeling.Great actors like Robert Englund and my favorite actress of all time Lin Shaye. Eli Roth was one of the producers and he played the same guy he had played in his movie Cabin Fever. Other great actors Gioseppe Andrews, Peter Stormare, Brian Gross, Ryan Flemming, Travis Tritt and a small part for Kane Hodder...great casting.I should give this movie a higher rating but this made my 4th time watching it and it seems to lose charm the more I see it, its got blood and gore and t&a and comedy and great acting and great kills...4/10 stars

Polaris_DiB Now, I can appreciate a healthy horror of the Civil War-obsessed racist inbred Deep South like anyone else, but like any stereotype, the fear says about as much about the culture it's applied to as to the culture that applied it--if not more. In this case, the stereotypes went way beyond far and ended up making a perverse and absurd portrait of the filmmakers as people who have absolutely no clue as to what they're film-making except that they've seen Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. They can't even keep their own stereotypes right, resulting in a completely confusing amalgam of Southern gentile, inbred hillbilly, and racist hack in ways that show absolutely no actual knowledge on how those stereotypes came to be (not to mention a complete lack of knowledge as to the role of class in the pre-Civil War South, meaning the relationships between the townsfolk are completely unbelievable as well).So the basic deal is that a bunch of Yanks heading to Florida for Spring Break get side-tracked into a small town of Pleasant Valley, a seemingly innocuous re-enactment village that invites them to join in the festivities. But actually they are being led into a ghost town where the vengeful corpses of Civil War past want to kill as many Yanks as townspeople were massacred in the Civil War, that is, 2001 of them. However, instead of getting right to it or really making short work of it, the movie must absolutely be feature length, and so it stretches out the horror, usually with more than just the usual amount of sex. Thus we get the trifecta of awful horror movie approaches: characters driven entirely by their reproductive organs; bad Southern accents; and the old Fantastic Tales cliché of "Something bad happened! Oh wait, that can't be, those people are actually dead!" With DVD making it easier than ever to distribute pretty much any movie in existence and fanboys like Tarantino and Eli Roth (the latter who co-produced this monstrosity) bringing grindhouse back into its niche, remakes of Herschell Gordon Lewis movies are becoming popular, especially recently. I can't speak to how this movie compares to the original, but I do know that HGL made up for poor production design and bad acting by usually stunning and always inventive arrays of lo-fi gore effects. This movie, however, is pretty "been there, done that", and really only resides for the sole purpose of saying "Hey! Hey! Hey guys! Southerners, right! Crazy, right! Hillbillies, y'know! Crazy!" This comes complete with an entirely arbitrary take-off of the infamous Battling Banjos scene and a terrible industrial update of the "The South Will Rise Again!" song.It's obvious that the filmmakers cared little for actually doing much but making a funny, campy horror movie with a lot of boobs and blood. Unfortunately, 2001 Maniacs had nothing to add to any of those topics except a confusion between a stereotypical hillbilly and a stereotypical redneck--and everything in between. The gore was unoriginal, the sex ranged from ludicrous to obnoxious via the path of gratuitous, and the humor basically boiled down to a single joke: Southerners are weird. That's really ironic when the repeated theme in this movie is "respect" for the dead, for the memorializing of the Civil War, and for the contrast of cultures between the North and South. This movie doesn't really have respect for anything, it just wants to have slack-jawed yokels chasing sheep named Jezebel while horny college kids get off on lesbian incest.At least Robert Englund is fun to watch. He plays the best gleefully demoniacal serial killer ever. It's in the face.--PolarisDiB