atinder This is a lot different from The original and this also felt a lot more campy, then I thought it was going to be.Don't think The original was even that campy, it did feel a little more serious.This was filled with a number of annoying horny teenagers (Who can not act to save their lives, really wooden acting form this Yonkers)they found this town,just like The original, they killed of one by one.The kills in this movie, was a lot more gory in this remake, I really liked some of the death scenes, some of them are just a little funny as well.I didn't mind how they changed the ending of movie a little but preferred The original ending better, I just found ending to be really funny, I felt like I watching a wrong turn movie. some parts of the movie, not all, The scripts was really poor at times, it just the stuff these people were saying, it didn't feel right for things that happen in those scenes. 4 out of 10

donnaplus3-9-336104 A Great Film But Their Was One Thing I Disliked The Singing And Guitar Playing By The Two Men. And It Stars Robert Englund Who Played Freddy Krueger. Lin Shaye (Robert Shaye's Sister.) The Hot Attractive Marla Leigh Malcom. The Hot Attractive Christa Campbell. Eli Roth (The Director Of Hostel The Gay Movie And Cabin Fever Has A Cameo At The Beginning.) Kane Hodder Who Played Jason Voorhees Has A Cameo Towards The Ending. The Two Hot Attractive Girls Kodi Kitchen And Cristin Michele. Their Is Also A Cameo By The Country Singer Travis Tritt At The Beginning. And Their Is Also A Cameo By The Director Himself Tim Sullivan. But Any How This Is Still A Great Film With Lots Of Gore Nudity And Language A Must See Film Way Better Then The Second Film. From Brandon DeVore

Christopher T. Chase Let this be a warning to you right off the bat, dear reader and horror fan: if you have the kind of 'political correctness' meter that sounds the alarm at fart jokes, you will want to stay VERY FAR AWAY from the likes of 2001 MANIACS. If you're a hardier horror buff who likes your flicks to follow the "Triple-B" Rule, (Babes, Boobs and Blood), then YEEEE-HAAAW, Bubba! Y'all jest struck GOLD! There's more swingin' jugs and spurtin' jugulars here than you'd find everywhere else, plus the 'bestest 'finger-lickin' good' barbecue this side of a Texas Chainsaw Family Reunion!If you know your horror history, you know that 2001 MANIACS is the lovingly-rendered redo of the gore-tastic Herschell Gordon Lewis' signature grue-fest 2000 MANIACS, here given the full-tilt millennium 'makeover.'The good-humored ghouls of Pleasant Valley, GA. (population: well - look at the title, genius!) are 'DIED-in-the-wool' Southerners who don't take too kindly to stray Yankees who trespass on their turf. It probably doesn't help that over 200 years ago, every inhabitant was slaughtered by Sherman's army as he and his men raped, razed and rip- snorted their way through to HOTLanta. So their vengeful, zombiefied ghosts return each year for a little payback. A fake detour sign misdirects unwitting travelers to Pleasant Valley, where every day is the celebration of the "Guts And Glory Jubilee", and the lost tourists are always the 'guests of honor' at the Jubilee barbecue...where they also do double-duty as THE MAIN COURSE!!! But in-between those two plot points, seduction and slaughter of every imaginable kind abounds.This time, eight friends who are classmates from the same college are on their way to Daytona Beach for Spring Break...and all the babes, booze and beer they can handle! Thanks to a wayward short cut that gets them lost, and that rigged "detour" sign that points them right into the heart of Pleasant Valley, there's one element they can add to that list - BLOOD - as in their own!!!Once the kids hit town, it would take a moron not to figure out that there is something unpleasantly weird about these grinning, welcoming, backwoods "hell-billys" (led by a gleefully demented Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund.) But then for college students, none of these guys (or girls) are particularly the brightest light-bulbs in the pack. What they are, are the soon-to-be 'entrées'...er, I mean 'guests of honor' welcomed to the Valley by the overly friendly Mayor Buckman (Englund), who are at first as charmed as they are freaked at this little backwater burg, where they seem to take dedication to the whole "Civil-War era reenactment" thing a little too seriously. Of course, they learn all too late...it's NOT an act.Director Tim Sullivan, scripting here with co-writer Chris Kobin, knows that 'Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun' - and that includes the audience. Those movie watchers who would be profoundly outraged and insulted by 2001 MANIACS probably wouldn't (and shouldn't) be renting or going out to see this anyway. For the rest of us...well, we know what we want and what we like to see in our horror films, and thankfully, Tim provides it in abundance! Not content to merely rehash the Lewis original, he surprises with hysterical references to other movies, while keeping the action going and the blood flowing! (Think of a couple of scenes here as DELIVERANCE by way of AIRPLANE!, and you get the tone of it!)The death scenes, if not completely original in some ways, are still delivered with gruesome effectiveness, and there is a nice "Tales From The Crypt"-style ending to wrap it neatly with a pretty, dripping-red bow.Oh, and BTW, did I mention that this is unofficially a 'musical'? That's right, gore-hounds! A couple of ZZ Top-types, (just with banjos and 'sharp-dressed men' for the 1700's) deliver some spicy song commentary on the action! But thankfully, the ditties are inserted in a way that is terrific and not tiresome. All in all, for an evening of blood and boobs, you might think you can do better than 2001 MANIACS, but that's debatable. I know you can do worse! And I have - trust me.

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