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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Look, I LOVE bad horror movies, but this was just bad in the regular connotation. This looked interesting (ie Bill Moseley, Ogre) but it was a pile of crap. The gore was uninteresting, the plotline wasn't even funny enough to be funny. I wish I got my time back from watching this, seriously.
Today is also Mr. Tim Sullivan's (July 2) Birthday, so my second feature was 2001 MANIACS : FIELD OF SCREAMS, which is the second installment in the series. In this one, The Immortal, Iconic Horror Legend Mr. Bill Moseley plays the leader, Mayor George W. Buckman. Scream Queen Lin Shaye, Christa Campbell, Ryan Fleming and Adam Robitel reprised their roles. This one is different from the first chapter. It's more of a comedy with sleazy, dirty dialogues and jokes, kinda cartoonish. Tons of nudity, sexuality, and of course, it has tons of blood and gore, awesome inventive brutal kills. You've got Barrels, Buzz Saw (this scene blew my F'N mind, the C Section), Pooch Box (this scene was a real shocker) and more. Whenever you're watching a horror film with my top fave Bill Moseley in it, you know he's gonna have many lines which will truly be incredible, unforgettable and original (fave quote - Hey Two Eyes, Suck My Dixie). Loved the man's voice, the way he laughs. His voice was also featured in a song at the end, credits called Lord Let Me Help You Decide, he's awesome!!! Ms. Lin Shaye was so amazing too, I really loved her performance, the scene where she was dancing, she really killed it. Don't know why there are lots of negative reviews for this movie, must be PG fans for the Twilight films, can't stand those films, but if Bill Moseley was in those Twilight films, I would surely F'N watch that. Wouldn't miss anything with Bill in it. The man's performance has a powerful force that will always make your eyeballs stick to the screen. Salute To Mr. Tim Sullivan for this blood soaked, looney, country cannibal chapter, packed with double bare knuckle fists of gore, sex, comedy, rockin tunes and more!!! Full of fun!!! Really hope there's a third, and I liked Tim Sullivan's idea of Bill Moseley facing off against the man who portrayed Mayor Buckman in the first chapter, The King of Horror, Mr. Robert Englund. If you're not gonna go to the South, The South Will Come To You, and The South Is Gonna Rise Again, I know it will!!!
The 2005 remake of H.G. Lewis's 2001 MANIACS, which starred Robert Englund, was an acceptable horror comedy. One of those films that's worth a single watch before being quickly forgotten. However, this low rent sequel - incredibly by the same director - makes the first movie look like an absolute masterpiece. Yes, this really is that bad.Everything about FIELD OF SCREAMS is horrendous, from the hackneyed, non-existent storyline to the unrestrained performances and the completely unfunny lowbrow comedy. This is a film that strives to be offensive at all costs, and it succeeds, or at least it would if you could take it seriously, which you can't. As a sequel, the film I can best liken it to is PIRANHA 3DD, which was equally appalling; as a standalone film, this feels like a Troma movie, nothing more.The overacting Bill Moseley is a poor replacement for Robert Englund, but here's one of the only two familiar faces in the cast list. The other is Lin Shaye, who returns from the first film, and I felt frankly embarrassed for her, seeing her in this. The whole film is a pointless mess of bad music, nudity from cheap-looking girls, and rubber gore effects. The blood looks like red water. It's actually too stupid to be offensive, so FIELD OF SCREAMS is just a waste of time, nothing more.
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.
