I remember this movie like yesterday. It is cheesy fun,I remember kate jackson and cheryl ladd was in it before charlie's angels.this was also before cheryl married David Ladd. Her maiden name was stoppalmore what a scary ending.I have been looking for this movie for years, it is great,unlike the terrible remake that Kate jackson was also in.They should have left well enough alone.
I thought this was going to be just another bad seed movie, but it is much more than that,this a great scary thrillerwith a shock ending.It is really too bad it did not do better at the box office. I wish it had more extras.
Drive-in gore king Herschell Gordon Lewis reached a creative peak with this darkly comic slaughterfest about six vacationing Yanks who fall victim to the cheerfully violent Southern hospitality of Pleasant Valley. Made the guests of honor in the town's centennial celebration, the hapless visitors soon discover that the obligations of their title include being used for the locals' bloody amusements -- which include being rolled downhill in a barrel full of sharp spikes and strapped down beneath a boulder for a hideous variation on the dunking booth -- and eventually ending up on the spit for the evening's barbecue. It turns out the bloodthirsty rednecks have come back from the dead after 100 years to exact symbolic revenge for the slaughter of the entire town by the Union Army. Filming on a shoestring in St. Cloud, FL, Lewis even contributed his talents to some of the songs (credited to the Pleasant Valley Boys), including "Rebel Yell" (not to be confused with the Billy Idol tune) and a rousing rendition of "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms," which accompanies a shot of a severed arm rotating on a barbecue spit.
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5
great stuff
on November 21, 2009
Posted by: cookie5
from chicago il
I love this movie, sure its gory, but its also funny and really looks good for a low budget movie. bye the way, I have met the director of this movie he is a really sweet man