Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

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Two Thousand Maniacs! is a 1964 American supernatural splatter film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and starring William Kerwin, Connie Mason, Jeffrey Allen, Ben Moore, and Gary Bakeman. It follows a group of Northern tourists who are savagely tortured and murdered during a ghostly Confederate celebration of a small Georgia community's centennial. The story was inspired by the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon, which also features a spectral town that manifests once every 100 years, populated by ghosts of its past inhabitants.

Production

Connie Mason, a former Playboy Playmate who had previously starred in Lewis's Blood Feast (1963) was cast in the lead role of Terry Adams. The film was the feature film debut of a nonprofessional Illinois stage actor named Taalkeus Blank (1910-1991; nicknamed "Talky" his entire life) who played Pleasant Valley Mayor Buckman.

Two Thousand Maniacs! was filmed over the course of approximately 12 days in the fall of 1963 in St. Cloud, Florida. According to a contemporary report, the entire town participated in the film. Principal photography began on November 3, 1963. Per a November 4, 1963 newspaper report, filming was scheduled to complete in mid-November 1963.

The film's budget was considerably larger than what the filmmakers had previously had to work with, and afforded the film a more polished production. The film's elaborate murder scenes required significant special effects contributions, including a boulder made out of paper maché which falls from a platform and crushes the Beverly character.

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