(re)search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">   <p>Somewhere deep South: 6 tourists - John (Jerome Eden) & his wife Bea (Shelby Livingston), David (Michael Korb) & his wife Beverly (Yvonne Gilbert) & Terry (Connie Mason) & Tom (William Kerwin), a hitchhiker she has picked up - are tricked into going to Pleasant Valley, where they are welcomed by the locals & their mayor (Jeffrey Allen), who welcomes them as guests of honour to Pleasant Valley's centennial celebration, & promises that they will be taken care of all during the celebrations ... of course, <i>taken care of</i> can be interpreted in many ways.<p>Bea is soon invited to a barbecue, but suddenly has to realize that she is to provide the meat ... well, she<i> is</i> the meat.<p>John is tied to 4 horses, who run off into different directions (he doesn't survive).<p>DAvid is rolled down a hill in a barrel ... but the barrel is full of spikes (he doesn't survive etiher.<p>& Beverly is squashed by a giant rock (need I say she died ?).<p>Only Tom figures that it's mighty weird for Southerners not only to celebrate the centennial of the end of the Civil War (which they lost), but also to invite Northerners ... & soon he finds a plaque that commemorates a blood bath that yankee soldiers brought upon the village of Pleasant Ville 100 years ago ... & Tom figures, maybe the villagers have thought it might be time to retaliate.<p>The villagers are already closing in on him when he persuades Terry to a getaway, & they really make it to the next village & inform the local sheriff (Andy Wilson) ... but the sheriff doesn't know of any Pleasant Valley in the immediate vicinity, & once Thomas & Terry take him there, the village has mysteriously disappeared. Obviously Pleasant Valley will not resurface again until the next centennial ... when people travel in rocketships ...<p> <p><b>Two Thousand Maniacs</b> is one of the better (& rather typical) Herschell Gordon Lewis films: It features a stupid story & silly dialogue, wooden actors & improbable characters ... but this is all just used as a hanger for the gore effects that are so straight-forward & blunt that they just cannot be taken seriously, as the whole film has a certain rough tongue-in-cheek feel to it. <p> So, if you expect any decent horror, you might be disappointed, but if you can laugh about a woman being squashed by a rock (<i>in a movie</i>, not in real life), you might be entertained by this film. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2005"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>