Waste of time

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Not the best movie of all time but still a fun and violent horror. There is some great gore, although it is slapstick gore. It is not the funniest or that memorable. Fun but uninspiring serial killer townsfolk brutally murdering people. I just wish it had gone further and setup a more interesting world.

It's spring break and all the kids head off to Daytona, but are mislead down a detour that ends them up in a hillbilly heaven...or hell as they soon learn. The people all have southern hospitality and the kids think its a Cival War reenactment, but soon find out they are cannibals ghosts of the dead soldiers and families from centuries before.I liked this film, although its a remake of Hershel Gordon Lewis' 64 classic it really isn't a carbon copy. It is completely original on ideas and methods of killing. Lewis did his movie in a time when it was rare to see blood and guts, but in 2005 when this one was made it was just another horror flick. It did have lots of blood and gore and also something that is missing from many horror movies...sex and nudity. I loved that aspect of it, it was loaded with sexuality, even homosexuality and I think sex is great in horrors.The kids playing these parts were your average jerks that you actually wanted to see die, it was a slasher lovers fantasy to see them taken out one by one.The direction was OK, and the music was fun and appropriate, the hillbilly ways seemed authentic and I must say its a nice film. Very 80's feeling.Great actors like Robert Englund and my favorite actress of all time Lin Shaye. Eli Roth was one of the producers and he played the same guy he had played in his movie Cabin Fever. Other great actors Gioseppe Andrews, Peter Stormare, Brian Gross, Ryan Flemming, Travis Tritt and a small part for Kane Hodder...great casting.I should give this movie a higher rating but this made my 4th time watching it and it seems to lose charm the more I see it, its got blood and gore and t&a and comedy and great acting and great kills...4/10 stars

Recap: It's spring break and everyone is headed for Florida. Anderson and his friends just got a ultimatum from their professor though. They have to redo their term paper on the civil war, or they will be expelled. And they have to turn them in by the end of spring break. However, party first, school later and they head for Florida. But they get lost on the way and end up in Pleasant Valley, population 2001. And they are just about to have their "Guts and G(l)ory Jubilee". Along with a few other outsiders they take up the mayors offer to stay, but soon something seems to be very, very wrong.Comments: I caught this late on a movie channel, and almost directly wished I hadn't. But that happens when you confuse Matthew Carey with Matthew Perry and expect a harmless comedy. My mistake. This is certainly not the type of comedy that Matthew Perry usually end up in. This is the kind of movie where Robert Englund plays the mayor (and the TV guide had left his name out, gee thanks.). So this is a slasher movie, still not sure if comedy applies, even if the guides says so.Sure, not exactly what I expected but it is sometimes at those times you find those rare gems. This is certainly not one of those times. This is for teenage boys, and most probably also written by teenage boys. Blood, gore are literally brutally mixed with lingerie, nudity, breasts and girls kissing. And basically that is all there is. Just a lot of it. No real jokes, no suspense. Just blood and sex. Yuk. So if you have grown up above the mental age of thirteen, leave it alone. By the way, leave it alone anyway.I can't believe they got Peter Stormare to do a small part in this. Fortunately for my faith in him he only appears a few minutes at the beginning and hopefully didn't know what the rest was about. If you hadn't figured it out already, I didn't like it at all. In fact this is one of very few movie I can't see any time or place it would work. It is one of the few I recommend people to stay absolutely clear of (incidentally, and no offence to him, it is not the first which stars Englund). Don't watch it. There are a lot of things that's better to do with your time. Like bringing it out with the garbage…2/10

2001 Maniacs the remake isn't a movie. It is a post-movie. It is as developed as an 88 minute Capitol One commercial, and the only thing it sells is the theoretical algorithm of what defines a good time to a certain consumer demographic.The overall structure, plot, pacing, dialog, and format of 2001 Maniacs could have been inputed by a machine based on the specific formulas of similar movies (Bordello of Blood, Dusk Till Dawn). 2001 Maniacs then reflects the camp aspect of slasher/gore movies, yet some integral part is missing. It isn't that 2001 Maniacs has no heart or soul, it simply wasn't programmed to have heart or soul in the first place. 2001 Maniacs follows the sad trend of most genre (and mainstream) films these days, of trying to imitate the nature of a narrative film. The structure is then reinforced through nothing but shear will of the audience, who has consumed the same tired formula so many times before they now can essentially beg for the same old bone on command.Yet 2001 Maniacs is more than just this: it is not simply a bad movie that is neither funny or scary. It is nothing. It is a black hole, so mediocre it produces no emotions in its watcher. Or rather it produces in the watcher the vacant gaze of catatonic enjoyment one simulates when watching a commercial, this movie imitation's closest relative.A scary thing indeed.