South finally rises again for 2001 MANIACS

[darthzirock]

Creature Corner reports that 2001 MANIACS, the long-mooted sequel to the Herschell Gordon Lewis cult classic, finally began rolling today in Georgia. Directed by Tim Sullivan from a script he wrote with Chris Kobin, it follows a modern group of road-tripping Northern youths who wind up in a Southern town inhabited by vengeful yokels who still haven’t gotten over that whole Civil War thing. Robert Englund stars along with Giuseppe (CABIN FEVER) Andrews; the movie is the first production of Eli Roth, Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel and David Schow’s Raw Nerve outfit, and features makeup FX by the SOTA team.

[Mandalorian Candidat]

Sounds like a cross between Deliverance and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[darthzirock]

Sounds like a cross between Deliverance and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Yes, except the original 2,000 MANIACS! (1964) Two Thousand Maniacs! beat THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to the screens by a decade, and it beat DELIVERANCE (1972) to theaters by eight years. A stronger argument could be made that both films were inspired by 2,000 MANIACS!