This is the best film, in my opinion, by the "godfather of gore," one of my favorite directors... Herschell Gordon Lewis AKA "HGL."
HGL made the first ever "gore" filmed titled, "Blood feast." One year later, he came out with "Two Thousand Maniacs." HGL's films are textbook drive-in/exploitation films. If you want to familiarize yourself more with exploitation films, HGL is the perfect place to start as he is one of the masters! These are low budget films that relied extremely heavily (maybe using to much of the funding) on fluffed up advertising and exploitative violence to the excited drive-in audience!
In this film, the residents of Pleasant Valley, Georgia love to lure in Yankees to their small Southern town to help them celebrate their centennial!! One by one the "guests of honor" are killed off in the most brutal of ways...
Featuring an awesome soundtrack, mainly performed by "The Pleasant Valley Boys," excluding the main/introduction song, "Rebel Yell (The South's Gonna Rise Again)," performed by Mr. Herschell Gordon Lewis himself!!!
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