Two Thousand Maniacs!
AKA 2000 Maniacs
1964, Directed by Herschell G. Lewis
Whichever way you cut it, that’s a whole lot of maniacs.
A kind of psychotic Brigadoon, Two Thousand Maniacs! features a town of ghosts which appear every 100 years in order to slaughter passers-by. And very inventive methods of slaughter they use too - one poor chap is sealed in a nail-lined barrel and rolled down a hill.
This movie gives further proof that old horror film makers didn’t know what colour blood is. It also features the world’s most unconvincing large rock.
Favourite bit: The old man in the hat (The Mayor?) joyously burning a piece of paper in a lamp, with no explanation given whatsoever.
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