2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
R | 20 July 2010 (USA)
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When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original".

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Titreenp

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

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MonsterPerfect

Good idea lost in the noise

Bluebell Alcock

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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TdSmth5

How to review a movie like this? There was a time when straight-to-video movies were B-movies, that is a notch below A movies, less budget, less fancy locales and effects, fewer A-list cast members. These days a straight-to-video usually means something D-Z quality.I liked the the first 2001 Maniacs and was quite shocked to see that this one is directed by the same guy. What on earth happened from the time of the first to this? Rather than improve and do something bigger and better they went the other way.The good cannibals from Pleasantville are going through hard times. No Yankees stopping by. So they decide to go on the road and take their Southern charm to the north in the form of a circus of sorts. As luck will have it, a filming crew filming a reality show based on two bleached blond young bimbo friends/sisters gets a flat tire on the circus grounds.Rather than just kill the cast and crew the maniacs force them to watch their circus routines before killing them. What follows is an series of embarrassing skits that are nowhere near funny. If you're attempting to do comedy, you need a writer who can pull it off. Politically incorrect jokes shouldn't be too hard to come up with, but the people behind this movie apparently couldn't find a comedy writer.But what ruins this movie from the start is the terrible audio. No ambiance audio is used at all, it's all re-recorded, on cassette tape it seems and without a timer. If you don't have the budget to re-record, don't do it, or wait till you have the money. That deficiency puts the movie immediately in Z-movie territory. The awful script and direction doesn't help a bit. As a director you need to be able to tell the difference between what works on paper or in a comic but doesn't work on film. Here no one bothered to think that through.Not only does the director return from the first part but also plenty of the cast is back. Poor Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye do their best but not even they can save this mess. There are few positives to this movie: lots of gore and lots of pretty topless girls. And that's the only thing worth seeing here. Just because you have a few bucks to make a movie doesn't mean you should do it. More and more the job of a producer is these days to be able to discern when a movie is doable or not. I take it costs have dropped over the years and distributors aren't discriminating in the least. So it falls to the producers to figure out what kind of a movie they would release and whether it wouldn't be better to wait and find more financing first. A shame really. This series deserves better, it's original, politically incorrect, and entertaining, and I look forward to an entry that redeems this one.

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jimgoebel1

Just finished watching 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams on netflix...I hate to say it, but while I was a big fan of both the HGL original and the remake, this sequel to the remake was nowhere near as good as those. A few things I didn't like about this one, the few northern characters I liked died early on, leaving two characters to battle at the end that I despised. I felt no emotional connect with them, unlike the surviving two characters in the original 2001 Maniacs. Secondly, the sound editing was just atrocious. Third, I didn't care for the actor they got to play Harper. I'm not going to comment one way or the other on the basic story, as it did feel like (at least to me) that this film was a bridge to another part of the saga.The only thing I really did truly like about this film was the ending after the credits. I must admit I got a good chuckle out of it.

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kosmasp

If only ten people attend to a screening, that does not necessarily mean, you will be watching a bad movie at the cinema. In this case, unfortunately it was exactly what we were in for. Although this movie tries so hard to be funny and not be taken seriously (and has a scene or two that might get you to chuckle for a second), it never really reaches any comedy heights.Actually it seems never to really take off at any moment. It's a shame, because Tim Sullivan seems like a very likable guy and someone who really has fun directing. And also has a way at cons or festivals. If only he could have translated that onto the screen or half of it, it would have been an entirely different beast altogether. He didn't and we don't even get mediocre with this movie ... Avoid (unless you have friends over and want to have a laugh ... for all the wrong reasons)

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lastliberal

OK, I'm a Christa Campbell fan, and have almost everything she has appeared in. I will watch paint dry if Christa is standing in front of it. So, I expected to see her, and I expected the same fun I had with the first film.I was sorely disappointed that the film didn't have that magic of the first film. It was a collection of racial and sex jokes with occasional displays of feminine pulchritude.Some of that display came from the fake Paris & Nicole filming a reality trip to the South. You know you can't wait to see them get it.But, it was really just a version of Hee Haw the way we would have liked to see it. Maybe without the gore.Still, it had Christa Campbell, and she managed to keep me interested until the end.

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