#2000 maniacs

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Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)

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The Undertaker, collage, 2024

Starring three guys I have gay thoughts about.

I haven't finished a collage in a while, so this was exciting. Inspired by recently watching Velvet Goldmine. Shoutout to Greg Gorman for the Iggy pic that's so gorgeous I couldn't bare to cover another centimeter.

Side note, I really recommend Iggy's lyric book (also source of the Bowie pic).

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As a "film buff," one thing I will never get over is how long color and black and white film coexisted. Color films started popping up in the 20s, and gained real popularity in the 50s, but black and white films were still commonplace through the 60s.

For example, the black and white Vincent Price classic The Last Man on Earth, and the technicolor splatter flick 2000 Maniacs both came out in 1964.

Incidentally, 11 years after Vincent Price starred in the full-color—and 3D—House of Wax (1953).

which just happened to come out 4 years before Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957).

The same year as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

and 11 years before genre-defining zombie film Night of the Living Dead was released in black and white.

So why were black and white films able to hold on, and compete against color movies, for almost half a century, but then quickly disappeared in the 70s?

Television.

In the 1950s, just when color film was becoming popular, so too was television. Black and white television. For the average person, a color movie was something you could only see in a theatre, but because of television, people were still used to watching things in black and white. Color may have been a bonus, but it was something additional, not the standard. However, once color television started becoming the norm in the early 70s, people were watching color movies at home, when they went to the theatre a color movie was now the standard, and black and white was lacking a basic feature. People just weren't used to it anymore, and the only time they saw black and white movies was as cheap filler programming on TV, which only strengthened the idea that black and white meant substandard.

Now I'm not going to be the pretentious asshole and say that black and white movies somehow magically have more artistic value and we should go back to that. It was cheaper, that was it. People used it as long as they could because film was expensive and color film was very expensive. Now it's cheaper to film on 4k digital in full color, so that's the reasonable thing to do. I just suggest that everyone drop the early-70s mindset that black and white films are intrinsically inferior and not worth your time.

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On April 10, 2009, Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs were screened as a double-feature on TCM Underground.

Here's some new art inspired by both splatter classics!

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Versions of Mayor Buckman

1. Jeffrey Allen, 2000 Maniacs (1964) 2. Robert Englund, 2001 Maniacs (2005) 3. Bill Moseley, 2001 Maniacs; Field of Screams (2010)

Versions of Harper Alexander

1. Stanley Dyrector, 2000 Maniacs (1964) 2. Giusseppe Andrews, 2001 Maniacs (2005) 3. Nivek Ogre, 2001 Maniacs; Field of Screams (2010)

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2000 maniacs - Pleasant Valley Centennial party ! April 1865 - April 1965

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Black & White Blinkies, GIFs, & Stamps!

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I found this ^_^

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Scream Queen - Lin Shaye

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bugs when you lift up a rock

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More photos of my favourite doctor!

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On March 20, 1964, Two Thousand Maniacs! debuted in the United States.

Here's some new art inspired by the splatter classic!