The second of Herschal Gordon Lewis' "blood trilogy", this one was filmed in the town of St. Cloud, Florida that was later razed to make way for Disneyworld.
Local rednecks are looking to avenge the massacre local townsfolk during the Civil War by luring yankee tourists to their town 100 years later and murdering them. Three couples are lured there by some false detour signs and most of them meet nefarious ends.
The first gore scene has a woman getting axed on a table (with a large confederate flag hanging overhead) by some of the rednecks after getting her thumb cut off. Not bad. Part of her remains are later roasted over an open fires as the local townsfolk are sitting around singing campfire songs. Hilarious. At the same campfire, her drunken boyfriend has his limbs tied up to four horses and is pulled apart, limb by limb. You don't really get to see it, though. Only his leg (with meat hanging off the end) being dragged away by a horse. The bloody torso isn't shown.
The next couple meets as gruesome end as the first one. The woman is lured to a platform beneath a large boulder, then she is tied down kicking and screaming (she doesn't look like she's really resisting) and is crushed by the boulder when a lever releases it. Just like in a carnival show. Her husband is dragged up a hill and stuck in a yellow barrel that has nails nailed inside of it, and is rolled downhill inside the barrel. He's looks like a real mess by the time he reaches the bottom. Not bad.
Of course the third couple (Connie Mason and Bill Kerwin from BLOOD FEAST) catch on real fast and make their escape out of town in their red 1964 Mercury convertible with a truckload of rednecks not far behind. As they make it to the main road, they leave the rednecks behind and make their way to nearest town where the local sheriff there doesn't believe them. As they sit in the car and reflect on what's happened, they almost don't believe it themselves.
My second favorite after BLOOD FEAST, this too uses a beautifully remastered print taken from the original negative. The Something Weird DVD also has additional unused footage which doesn't add anything to the film but is interesting to look at, anyway. In the secondary audio commentary that's included as an extra, Lewis says he had triple the budget to use due the success of BLOOD FEAST and they made almost as much money back on this one as they did on the earlier film.
Excellent camp film that must have terrified audiences the first time they saw it. Check it out!
7 out of 10
Local rednecks are looking to avenge the massacre local townsfolk during the Civil War by luring yankee tourists to their town 100 years later and murdering them. Three couples are lured there by some false detour signs and most of them meet nefarious ends.
The first gore scene has a woman getting axed on a table (with a large confederate flag hanging overhead) by some of the rednecks after getting her thumb cut off. Not bad. Part of her remains are later roasted over an open fires as the local townsfolk are sitting around singing campfire songs. Hilarious. At the same campfire, her drunken boyfriend has his limbs tied up to four horses and is pulled apart, limb by limb. You don't really get to see it, though. Only his leg (with meat hanging off the end) being dragged away by a horse. The bloody torso isn't shown.
The next couple meets as gruesome end as the first one. The woman is lured to a platform beneath a large boulder, then she is tied down kicking and screaming (she doesn't look like she's really resisting) and is crushed by the boulder when a lever releases it. Just like in a carnival show. Her husband is dragged up a hill and stuck in a yellow barrel that has nails nailed inside of it, and is rolled downhill inside the barrel. He's looks like a real mess by the time he reaches the bottom. Not bad.
Of course the third couple (Connie Mason and Bill Kerwin from BLOOD FEAST) catch on real fast and make their escape out of town in their red 1964 Mercury convertible with a truckload of rednecks not far behind. As they make it to the main road, they leave the rednecks behind and make their way to nearest town where the local sheriff there doesn't believe them. As they sit in the car and reflect on what's happened, they almost don't believe it themselves.
My second favorite after BLOOD FEAST, this too uses a beautifully remastered print taken from the original negative. The Something Weird DVD also has additional unused footage which doesn't add anything to the film but is interesting to look at, anyway. In the secondary audio commentary that's included as an extra, Lewis says he had triple the budget to use due the success of BLOOD FEAST and they made almost as much money back on this one as they did on the earlier film.
Excellent camp film that must have terrified audiences the first time they saw it. Check it out!
7 out of 10