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''Two Thousand Maniacs!'' is a 1964 American splatter film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It follows a group of Northern tourists who are savagely tortured and murdered during a Confederate celebration of a small southern community's centennial. The film starred 1963 Playboy Playmate Connie Mason. It was the second part of what the director's fans later dubbed "The Blood Trilogy", a trio of films starting with 1963's ''Blood Feast'' and ending with 1965's ''Color Me Blood Red''. The film has been noted by critics as an early example of Southern caricature in grindhouse films, as well as for its sensationalizing of national perceptions between the North and South. The film was remade in 2005 as ''2001 Maniacs''. The story of the film was inspired by the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical ''Brigadoon''. == Plot == Six Yankee tourists are lured into the fictional small Southern town of Pleasant Valley by "redneck" citizens, to be the guests of honor for the centennial celebration of the day Union troops destroyed the town. The tourists are initially treated with hospitality and given rooms to stay in the local hotel. However, that evening, one of the women is attacked by a local man; she runs toward the town for help, but is accosted by the mayor and several other locals, who hold her down on a table and dismember her alive with an axe. The following night, the woman's dismembered limbs are roasted over a barbecue with the townspeople in attendance. Meanwhile, two of the guests discover a park plaque describing the "blood centennial" celebration in which they will be killed. One of the men is apprehended by the townspeople and made to participate in a "horse race," which entails his body being ripped apart limb by limb by horses who are roped to his extremities. The next day, the remaining tourists are forced to participate in various cruel games which lead to their gory deaths. One man is rolled downhill in a barrel embedded with nails, while a woman is crushed by a boulder held aloft in a contraption resembling a carnival-style dunk tank. After discovering the nefarious plans of the townspeople, the two remaining tourists manage to escape. They then return with a local sheriff, only to discover that the town has disappeared. The film ends with two of the townspeople revealing that they are really vengeful spirits looking forward to the next centennial in 2065, when Pleasant Valley will rise again to resume its vendetta against the Yankees. They walk into the fog and disappear. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Two Thousand Maniacs!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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