6 More Horror Movies No-One Survives

2. 2001 Maniacs

House Of 1000 Corpses
Lionsgate Films

A loose remake of a 1964 movie that was inspired by a 1940s musical, Tim Sullivan's 2001 Maniacs is a great little popcorn horror flick with some fine turns from genre faves Robert Englund, Lin Shaye and Peter Stormare.

Set in the Georgia town of Pleasant Valley, this picture finds six college kids and a few bikers stumble upon said town just as the annual Guts and Glory celebrations are taking place to pay tribute to the American Civil War. In reality, the 2001 maniacs of the title were the 2001 Confederate soldiers killed during that war, and Pleasant Valley itself is actually a cemetery site.

After all but two of our protagonists are slaughtered in some truly gruesome ways, the reveal of Pleasant Valley's truth is made once those two survivors manage to make it out of the town and to a nearby sheriff's office. There, the duo are informed that Pleasant Valley no longer exists and that the site is nowadays a graveyard.

Rightfully freaked the f**k out, our heroic pair pile onto a motorbike and drive off into the sunset... only to then be decapitated by a well-placed slice of barbed wire. With that, every one of this 2005 movie's key characters are nicely killed off.

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