**POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD**
Country singer Chuck Scott goes down to the Carolinas to research the origins of folk music. He meets such local luminaries as the Carpenter family, the Basham family, and Adam (COLOR ME BLOOD RED) Sorg as a psychotic, rape-happy sheriff. Within 15 minutes, Scott and the Carpenter family treat us to a rousing rendition of that chart-busting coast-to-coast hit "Go Tell Aunt Rhody." Wretched as the song is, the Carpenters sing it fairly well despite the absence of music schools in the area, not to mention their notable shortage of teeth. The lyrics to the other songs except "I Love That White Lightning" are unintelligible, which may be just as well. Scott goes on to partake of the local vittles, romance one of the local wimmen and of course run up against the local corn likker trade. The hill folk own, and fight over, "The World's Biggest Still" which looks like the world's biggest carnival dunk tank. Sheriff Sorg murders revenooers and dumps their corpses into the still. When director Lewis saw how many kids were attending his premiere of MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN he went into the projection booth and cut out some other gruesome bits that have never been reinstated. I'll never forgive him for that. Comedy fans can enjoy the appearance and antics of Jeffrey Allen, Ben Moore and Mark Douglas (leftovers from 2000 MANIACS) and Pat Patterson, future director of DR. GORE. One video dealer states that in his version, "the print is jumpy, the color is washed out and the sound is bad." The scary thing is, MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN probably looked that way when it first hit the drive-ins.
Country singer Chuck Scott goes down to the Carolinas to research the origins of folk music. He meets such local luminaries as the Carpenter family, the Basham family, and Adam (COLOR ME BLOOD RED) Sorg as a psychotic, rape-happy sheriff. Within 15 minutes, Scott and the Carpenter family treat us to a rousing rendition of that chart-busting coast-to-coast hit "Go Tell Aunt Rhody." Wretched as the song is, the Carpenters sing it fairly well despite the absence of music schools in the area, not to mention their notable shortage of teeth. The lyrics to the other songs except "I Love That White Lightning" are unintelligible, which may be just as well. Scott goes on to partake of the local vittles, romance one of the local wimmen and of course run up against the local corn likker trade. The hill folk own, and fight over, "The World's Biggest Still" which looks like the world's biggest carnival dunk tank. Sheriff Sorg murders revenooers and dumps their corpses into the still. When director Lewis saw how many kids were attending his premiere of MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN he went into the projection booth and cut out some other gruesome bits that have never been reinstated. I'll never forgive him for that. Comedy fans can enjoy the appearance and antics of Jeffrey Allen, Ben Moore and Mark Douglas (leftovers from 2000 MANIACS) and Pat Patterson, future director of DR. GORE. One video dealer states that in his version, "the print is jumpy, the color is washed out and the sound is bad." The scary thing is, MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN probably looked that way when it first hit the drive-ins.