Main Cast: Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Giuseppe Andrews, Jay Gillespie, Marla Malcolm
Release Year: 2004
Country: US
Run Time: 87 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Hostel director Eli Roth's genre-friendly Raw Nerve film group makes its gore-soaked splash with director Tim Sullivan's kitchy remake of Hershell Gordon Lewis' southern-fried splatter-fest. A drunken group of hard partying college-kids are in for a Spring Break they'll never forget when they take a tragic detour through the small southern town of Pleasant Valley. Greeted by the overzealous mayor (Robert Englund) and promised a wild time at the town's annual barbecue celebration, the initially-hesitant teens soon agree to spend the night when the citizen's down-home hospitality simply becomes too much to resist. But things are not what they seem in the timeless town of Pleasant Valley, and as the thrill seeking students begin to disappear one-by-one in the most gruesome of fashions, it soon becomes obvious that they are to be the main ingredient in Pleasant Valley's most tasty tradition. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Dylan Edrington - Nelson Elliot; Matthew Carey - Cory; Mushond Lee - Malcolm; Bianca Smith - Leah; Brian Gross - Ricky; Gina Marie Heekin - Kat; Adam Robitel - Lester; Brendan McCarthy - Rufus; Christa Campbell - Milk Maiden; Wendy Kremer - Peaches; Kodi Kitchen - Hester; Cristin Michele - Glendora; Ryan Fleming - Hucklebilly; Johnny Legend - Strolling Minstrel A; Scott Spiegel - Strolling Minstrel B; Craig Stark - Sheriff Friedman; Travis Tritt - Gas Station Attendant; Eli Roth - Justin; Tim Sullivan - Coffin Harry; Hugh Casey - Reverend Jonas; Jacob Hair - Onion Joe; Andy Mantineo - Giblet; Kevin 'Pondo' Canady - Blacksmith; Amanda Tuffin - Little Maniac; Topper - Dr. Mambo; Jezebel - Herself; Bill McKinney - The Chef; Peter Stormare - Professor Ackerman; Isaac C. Singleton, Jr. - The Butcher; Cassandra Hepburn - Girlfriend; Rachel L. Howard - Drool girl; Christopher Nathaniel - Young Lover
Credit
Aaron Griffith - Casting, David Fleming - Co-producer, C. Scott Votaw - Co-producer, Eric Miller - Co-producer, Wendy Moynihan - Costume Designer, Tim Sullivan - Director, Michael Ross - Editor, Herschell Gordon Lewis - Executive Producer, Jonathan Bross - Executive Producer, Nathan Barr - Composer (Music Score), Steve Adcock - Cinematographer, Scott Spiegel - Producer, Boaz Yakin - Producer, Brett Nemeroff - Producer, Eli Roth - Producer, Christopher Tuffin - Producer, Chris Kobin - Screenwriter, Tim Sullivan - Screenwriter, David F. Friedman - Co-Executive Producer
Six prep college students and an interracial biker couple travel south towards Daytona Beach for Spring Break, but a detour leads them into the seemingly idyllic Georgia town of Pleasant Valley (population 2,001), which is holding a "Guts and Glory Jubilee" in honor of the American Civil War. While they stay in the town, completely isolated from the outside world, they are systematically separated and killed in gory fashion by the town's residents. Two students manage to escape, but upon alerting the authorities they learn that "Pleasant Valley" is nothing but a cemetery - a memorial for 2001 Confederate villagers who were massacred 150 years earlier in the Civil War. A plaque reveals that the town's residents will not rest until the crime has been paid back on the Yankees: 2001 must be killed - an eye for an eye.
Jay Gillespie as Anderson Lee, one of the vacationing college students. He is friends with Cory and Nelson. He is killed with barbed wire.
Matthew Carey as Cory Jones, another college student and a friend of Anderson and Nelson. Peaches kills him while performing oral sex on him.
Marla Malcolm as Joey, another of the college students. She is friends with Ricky and Kat. Killed with barbed wire.
Gina Marie Heekin as Kat, another of the college students. She dies quickly after being ripped limb from limb by horses
Brian Gross as Ricky, a friend of Kat and Joey. He is impaled.
Mushond Lee as Malcolm, a tourist who arrives on a motorcycle with Leah. He is crushed to death.
Dylan Edrington as Nelson Elliot, another college student, friends with Cory and Anderson. Milkmaiden kills him by forcing him to drink moonshine acid which melts him from the inside.
On the official facebook page for the film, the sequel 2001 Maniacs: The Beverly Hellbillys was announced (later renamed to 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams). Mayor Buckman is now portrayed by Bill Moseley and Granny Boone is portrayed another time from Lin Shaye.[1]
