Filmed in the Maryland woods but please don't confuse it with The Blair Witch Project.
Here's a movie I've seen before, many moons ago. I suddenly got the inspiration to finally give it a second spin and talk about why it is pretty terrible... although this is a remake of director Anthony Malanowski's film Night of Horror... and if you think THIS is bad, you never want to view Night of Horror. I may see that next month and maybe longer, but Horror has to be among the worst pictures I've ever seen.
Enough about Night as I am not talking about that now; Troma released this as Curse of the Cannibal Confederates and apparently Lloyd Kaufman says this is among the worst things that Troma ever put out... what a horrifying thought that is. The plot: three hunters and their girlfriends go on a hunting trip (I know, Vegan Alert... although all the girls are against hunting, so I guess that is Vegan Points) and they travel there in a sweet 70's RV. They all bicker with each other constantly and believe it or not, that got tiresome rather quickly. So did the long sequences of characters just walking around, or standing around smoking cigarettes, or long stretches of zombie Confederate soldiers resurrecting. The poor filmmaking did garner some laughs, admittedly. Dialogue is about as badly dubbed as it is in Birdemic! I mean, a few lines are so obvious... it sounded distant and a whirring like an old air conditioner is in the background! The editing also reminded me at times of Birdemic, and there is something you never want to be compared to.
The characters are three hairy dudes (one of whom looks like Eddie Rabbitt and another who has to be a kleptomaniac), two Japanese sisters and a bitchy blonde who is a feminist so she is portrayed as dumb and a bitch (hey, that's what the movie did, not me!) and note that one of them is blind... this is helpfully noted in the opening credits as they refer to her as BLIND KIYOMI. Unfortunately, everyone else treats her like crap because she's blind and sometimes needs assistance. This has zero budget so the “action” is rather pitiful and the most impressive moments-involving fireworks-was absolutely confounding as shown. The exploding bullets were more straightforward; one character brought them along “because it'd be cool” and at least another notes the futility of trying to hunt deer with such bullets.
For those that like gore, much of the movie has none of it... before things go from 0-100 and cheap fake guts are eaten. Finally, we see why Troma changed the title. Overall, this does deserve its bad reputation, although like I said it could be much worse... at least it is not Night of Horror. By the way, I am amused that Troma's print both had the end title card it created and the original one, which of course stated the original name of the movie. Anyhow, if you want to see a motion picture involving Confederates returning from the dead to gain revenge on Yankees and unleash bloody carnage, please stick with Two Thousand Maniacs!
Here's a movie I've seen before, many moons ago. I suddenly got the inspiration to finally give it a second spin and talk about why it is pretty terrible... although this is a remake of director Anthony Malanowski's film Night of Horror... and if you think THIS is bad, you never want to view Night of Horror. I may see that next month and maybe longer, but Horror has to be among the worst pictures I've ever seen.
Enough about Night as I am not talking about that now; Troma released this as Curse of the Cannibal Confederates and apparently Lloyd Kaufman says this is among the worst things that Troma ever put out... what a horrifying thought that is. The plot: three hunters and their girlfriends go on a hunting trip (I know, Vegan Alert... although all the girls are against hunting, so I guess that is Vegan Points) and they travel there in a sweet 70's RV. They all bicker with each other constantly and believe it or not, that got tiresome rather quickly. So did the long sequences of characters just walking around, or standing around smoking cigarettes, or long stretches of zombie Confederate soldiers resurrecting. The poor filmmaking did garner some laughs, admittedly. Dialogue is about as badly dubbed as it is in Birdemic! I mean, a few lines are so obvious... it sounded distant and a whirring like an old air conditioner is in the background! The editing also reminded me at times of Birdemic, and there is something you never want to be compared to.
The characters are three hairy dudes (one of whom looks like Eddie Rabbitt and another who has to be a kleptomaniac), two Japanese sisters and a bitchy blonde who is a feminist so she is portrayed as dumb and a bitch (hey, that's what the movie did, not me!) and note that one of them is blind... this is helpfully noted in the opening credits as they refer to her as BLIND KIYOMI. Unfortunately, everyone else treats her like crap because she's blind and sometimes needs assistance. This has zero budget so the “action” is rather pitiful and the most impressive moments-involving fireworks-was absolutely confounding as shown. The exploding bullets were more straightforward; one character brought them along “because it'd be cool” and at least another notes the futility of trying to hunt deer with such bullets.
For those that like gore, much of the movie has none of it... before things go from 0-100 and cheap fake guts are eaten. Finally, we see why Troma changed the title. Overall, this does deserve its bad reputation, although like I said it could be much worse... at least it is not Night of Horror. By the way, I am amused that Troma's print both had the end title card it created and the original one, which of course stated the original name of the movie. Anyhow, if you want to see a motion picture involving Confederates returning from the dead to gain revenge on Yankees and unleash bloody carnage, please stick with Two Thousand Maniacs!
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