Destination: Atlanta, GA (for the teacher's convention) Disaster: Vengeful Southerners
It is 1965. One-hundred years ago Union troops entered the sleepy town of Pleasant Valley and slaughtered all the inhabitants. To celebrate the centennial of this horrific event, the spirits of those murdered arise from the grave to exact revenge on six vacationing Yankees they've trapped and made "guests of honor" at their mysterious festivities.
Activities for the two day celebration include a horse race, the Barrel Roll, the Teetering Rock Game, and an opening night barbecue in which no one actually eats anything. Each guest of honor gets to participate in a different event. There's only one catch: in the end, each will be covered in oodles of stage blood.You see, the menu for the barbecue consists of Blackened Arm of Bea Miller; the horse race involves tying a person's arms and legs to four horses which are then sent running in four different directions; the Barrel Roll is a particular nasty event in which you are placed in a barrel full of nails and rolled down a hill; and the Teetering Rock involves a boulder falling on you from above. So, obviously, it sucks to the guest of honor at this festival of death.
Thankfully, hitchhiking teacher Tom White and his dead-behind-the-eyes companion, Terry Adams, escape the clutches of Mayor Buckman and his horde of evil rednecks. They decide to treat the whole series of events as a dream and continue on to the teacher's conference where we can assume love blossomed and dirty love was made. As for the citizens of Pleasant Valley, they can't wait until the next bicentennial, in fact, they plan to have a rocket-ship made to "blast them Yankees into space." Yeeehaw!