Subsequently, Lewis went onto specialise in similar splatter films (and even developed a cult following).Īs with the rest of Herschell Gordon Lewis’s films, Two Thousand Maniacs! is set around the splatter set-pieces – a woman is lured into a field by a paramour who maliciously cuts her fingers off, after which she is held down and her arm severed with an axe a woman is tied down in the middle of a field while the locals throw baseballs at a target to drop a large rock on top of her a victim is tied between four horses, which are then set running in different directions (although this scene is a cheat as all we see of this is one arm being dragged across a field) and, most imaginatively, a man is placed in a barrel, nails then hammered through it and the barrel rolled down the hill with him inside. Two Thousand Maniacs! was Herschell Gordon Lewis’s second splatter film, produced in conjunction with infamous exploitation producer David F. Director Herschell Gordon Lewis had had great success with Blood Feast (1963), a laughably ineptly made nevertheless entertainingly over-the-top film that had the distinction of being the world’s first splatter film.
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