Wonderfully offbeat film!

Very Cool!!!

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

2001 MANIACS is a cheesy B-movie remake of a cult H. G. Wells gore film of the 1960s entitled 2000 MANIACS. This is a low budget production, packed to the brim with rubbery gore effects and a hammy turn from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET star Robert Englund, and yet despite (or maybe because of) all this it turns out to be a surprisingly enjoyable little movie.I think the film works because the tone is just right. There's a ton of black comedy here, some of it blacker than black (like when the black guy turns up in the southern town asking where black guys hang around, and the locals point him to the nearest lynching tree). The story is relatively fast-paced, and you can be sure that there will be a grisly murder just around the next corner.The acting is less impressive, and some of the characters are just a little TOO over the top (yes, even in a film like this) but yet it somehow hangs together. It's clear that Englund is having a ball as the demented town mayor and there are cameos from Peter Stormare and Eli Roth as the story progresses. None of it is scary or disturbing, but it is funny in places and it's certainly miles better than the amateurish original.

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

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

I had the… fun of watching a very campy movie known as "2001 Maniacs," which I guess was a remake of the '64 movie "Ten Thousand Maniacs." It's really about a group of college kids that travel to a small southern town for spring break only to find out that everybody that inhabits this town are psychopathic cannibals. I don't know where to begin with this review.First off, there were a lot of bloody effects and it was pretty gory. I enjoyed this, and some of the strategies used to 'off' the characters were pretty gruesome. The main problem that I had with this movie was that the horror and gore aspect of the film is overshadowed by the slapstick comedy, the crude redneck humor the terrible puns. Most people would find some of the puns funny but I found them campy and unnecessary and it was so over the top.What I found a little displeasing was how they viewed Southerners: there is a retarded kid that likes to kill cats, a young man who wants to have sex with a sheep, inbred sisters, a dumbfounded black man and everybody seems talks in stereotypical southern lingo. I am from the south so I am a little iffy on that but I can overlook it.This movie wants to be a horror comedy but it failed as a horror movie and I can only consider it as a comedy. Sure there is gore, some scares and a lot of deaths and cannibalism but I found myself laughing over ridiculous actions. The movie, of course for sex appeal, it littered with gorgeous girls who serve no purpose but as eye candy. I have not seen the original one, I might have to so that I can compare them… but I could still watch this movie again and find it appealing as a dark comedy, but I cannot say that this is everything a horror is. If you like "Dead Alive," "The Frighteners" or even "Shaun of the Dead" then you might like this movie.