2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Me: Hey roomie, I just rented 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. The only movie with Bill Mosley and Ahmed Best.
Roomie:Mesa is the Devil and Mesa is here to do the devils work.

The following exchange and maybe a couple moments of dialogue are the only moments of enjoyment I got from the movie.

The sequel to the remake of 2000 Maniacs is very much an acquired taste. Bill Mosley replace Robert England as the mayor of a southern town that was raped, pillaged and burned to the ground by Union officers during the civil war. Now as Ghosts?Zombies? Unknowns? They must kill 1000 northerners to avenge each lost soul. Kinda of a goofy story but I've heard worse and sometimes no story whatsoever in horror movies. In our sequel they take their show on the road and meet up with two royal celeb princess, think The Simple Life, and their crew filming a show out of a van. Well the two meet up about a long 20 minutes into the movie and the southerners proceed to kill them one by one.

Now there are a decent number of deaths but they are spread out over the movie and when there is no carnage there is only joking around by the towns folk and some screwing around by the t.v. crew. The main problem is those jokes are not funny, most cringe worthy and the screwing around is in no way sexy. Maybe the movie tries to be to many things but I would give them that much credit.

The gore and violence are as uninspired as the joke. Cheap effects including a saw that looks card board and a fake eletric chair are all they got to go on. the rest goes downhill. As for the characters, I'm use to having unlikable villains, but in this everyone is unlikable. I could care as much about villians as I do the stupid victims. Now it is just a shot at reality t.v. and celebulites but who really cares anymore, you making jokes proves you still want to talk about them.

In summation, maybe its just a really big laugh than I'm not in on. My only other thought watching it was they want to end their curse, but they choose to kill so slowly that one might assume at this point they really are monsters and care more about inflicting pain then getting vegence. But on that note half of the crew on the show arent from the north anyway. I think I just put thought into this than they did.