02/04/2006

New on DVD - 2001 Maniacs

On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old South gets a taste of them!

Three college slackers, Anderson Lee, Cory Jones, and Nelson Elliot plan a good time away from their college by heading out to Daytona Beach for Spring Break. But along they way, they get detoured into a small, off-the-map, town of Pleasant Valley, Georgia where they, along with three drifters, Joey, Kat and Ricky, and biker Malcolm and his girlfriend Leah, are welcomed as guests of honor by the cheerful, but sinister-looking Mayor Buckman for the annual Pleasant Valley Guts and Glory Festival. Unaware to the eight unsuspecting Northerners, the Mayor Buckman and the residents have more in store where they plan to use the festival as a blood vengeance ritual by separating the guests and, killing them off one-by-one in ultra-gory fashion to seek revenge against the Union Army destroying their town at the end of the Civil War back in 1865. Rated R for strong horror violence and gruesome images, sexuality/nudity and language.