![]() Lewis himself hailed it the favourite of his films and it’s certainly the one where he gets the balance of his often very dumb humour, the gore and the basics (like a plot) just about right.Īfter we see a group of young children hanging a cat (off camera), we’re introduced to six “Yankees” – married couples John (Jerome Eden) and Bea Miller (Shelby Livingston) and David (Michael Korb) and Beverly Wells (Yvonne Gilbert) and Terry Adams (former Playboy Playmate of the Month Connie Mason, returning from Lewis’s first gore film, Blood Feast (1963)) and her hitchhiker Tom White (William Kerwin, another Blood Feastreturnee, using the name Thomas Wood) – who are lured into the seemingly friendly town of Pleasant Valley as guests of honour at their centennial celebrations. ![]() Two Thousand Maniacs! may not live up to its title (there are far from two thousand bloodthirsty killers on the loose here) but this grisly reworking of Brigadoon (1954) is Herschell Gordon Lewis’ most consistently enjoyable film. ![]()
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