Day 4: Two Thousand/2000 Maniacs!
Wow, this title sounds a lot like the band 10,000 Maniacs...oh, wait...duh.
But, I digress. I'm still unsure if this movie was actually supposed to be funny, or if it just failed miserably at being terrifying. Does it really matter? No. No, it doesn't really matter. The film deals with a town of backwood, stereotypical Southern hicks (the horror!) that are celebrating their "centennial" by murdering the Hell out of a group of Yankees (in this context, I'm talking about people from the Northern states...if they were murdering the NY Yankees, this movie would be so much better). Long story short, the shoddy plot deals with a town of hicks getting vengeance on Northerners due to happenings in the Civil War. The story is poor, the production values are poor, and the film itself borders on the comically absurd. Of course you should watch it.
Best Part:
I'm going to have to go with the fact that the film's story is actually a horrible bastardization of the classic musical Brigadoon. Yup. Briga-frigging-doon. When you watch the movie, and think about this fact, it almost takes on a magical quality to it. Black magic, to be sure, but still. I still can barely wrap my mind around this. Ugh. But yeah, this is the best part of the movie. Or the human barbeque. Can't forget about the human barbeque.
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