2001 Maniacs (2005) or, Southern Camp Gore

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Robert Englund, wearing an eye patch with the Confederacy flag, is the scoop of Tim Sullivan's 2001 Maniacs

A group of party-hungering youths take a detour and end up in Pleasant Valley, Georgia, where 2001 Southern civil war ghosts are waiting to eat them!

2001 Maniacs is the crazily plotted remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis' Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964). The film contains lavish doses of sex and gore and both pro- and rather insulting gay-themed scenes, perhaps because its co-writer-director Tim Sullivan (Driftwood (2006)), a gay rights activist and horror filmmaker, struggled with the film's producers on these points. - Some of it has turned out fun, some of it just confusing.
Robert Englund (A Nightmare of Elm Street (1984)) is theatrical and campy in his over-the-top acting and quite funny as Mayor Buckman. The film is an absurd and entertaining cult favorite. (And actually a tad better than Lewis' original film in my opinion.)
Sullivan co-wrote the script with Chris Kobin (Driftwood (2006)).

Here is a Spanish trailer for the original Lewis version of the film

Cost: 1.5 - 3 mil. $ (differing reports)
Box office: Unknown
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[2001 Maniacs premiered 7 July (Fantasia Film Festival, Canada) and runs 87 minutes. Shooting took place in Georgia from November - December 2003. There are precious few details out surrounding 2001 Maniacs' release and earnings. It seems to have had a good run in Russia, where it reportedly made 368k $, but that seems to be it for info available. Sullivan returned with Driftwood (2006)). Englund returned in Dance of the Dead (2005, TV movie), A Nightmare on Elm Street: Real Nightmares (2005, TV-series) and theatrically in Hatchet (2006). A sequel was made for just 0.5 mil. $ five years hence, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. 11,137 IMDb users have given 2001 Maniacs an average rating of 5.4/10.]

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