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    Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)

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    Tom White (William Kerwin, billed here as Thomas Wood) and Terry Adams (Connie Mason) are heading to Atlanta when they are lured via a fake detour into the small Southern town of Pleasant Valley (population 2,000) by the locals, who want them to be the guests of honour in the celebration of the centennial of an important event in the history of their town.

    They find two young couples already there – the Millers (Jerome Eden and Shelby Livingston) and the Wells (Michael Korb and Yvonne Gilbert) – also visitors from the northern states who were lured into town by the locals.

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    Little do the six guests realise that as guests of honour they will be terrorised and tortured by Confederate ghosts from the strange town that rises every 100 years, Brigadoon-style,  to avenge Civil War atrocities.

    And so the “festivities” include a woman being dismembered and barbequed, a man being drawn and quartered having had his arms and legs tied to four horses, and the infamous “barrel roll” sequence where a man is pushed down a hill in a barrel that has nails driven into its sides.

    The gore, while unrealistic and obviously fake, actually becomes disturbing at times.

    Terry Adams
    Connie Mason
    Tom White
    Thomas Wood (William Kerwin)
    Mayor Buckman
    Jeffrey Allen
    Lester
    Ben Moore
    Billy
    Vincent Santo
    John Miller
    Jerome Eden
    Bea Miller
    Shelby Livingston
    Rufe
    Gary Bakeman
    Harper
    Mark Douglas
    Betsy
    Linda Cochran
    Beverly Wells
    Yvonne Gilbert
    David Wells
    Michael Korb
    Musicians
    The Pleasant Valley Boys

    Director
    Herschell Gordon Lewis

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