Maniac Movie

The story follows a serial killer who stalks young women and scalps them.

Maniac movie. Maniac is well filmed and uses some very interesting filming techniques. Things do not go as planned. Esper and stadie also made the 1936 exploitation film marihuana. Spinell was also co writer of the film.

It stars joe spinell as frank zito an italian american serial killer residing in new york city who murders and scalps young women. With jonah hill emma stone sonoya mizuno justin theroux. Elijah wood stars in the brutal slasher film maniac a daring and imaginative remake of the 1980 cult classic. Annette s stepmother eve played by nadia gray gradually shifts the young man s attentions to herself rather than her stepdaughter and together eve and jeff concoct a plot to help free eve s estranged husband from the institution in which he s been confined as a homicidal maniac these past four years after committing the so called acetylene murder when he killed with a blowtorch the man who raped annette.

A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself. Vaguely based on poe s the black cat and referring in several scenes to the same author s murders in the rue morgue maniac told a rambling sometimes incoherent story of a vaudeville impersonator. Spinell gives a bravura performance as frank a deeply disturbed individual haunted by childhood memories of his mistreatment at the hands of his mother. Directed by dwain esper.

Originally considered an exploitation film maniac has since attained a cult following despite receiving polarized reviews and being release. Movie info maniac given an x rating for extreme violence and gore is the story of a new york psycho joe spinell who kills females and scalps them for his mannequin collection at home. Co written by and starring joe spinell maniac is a grim bloody and horrific journey into the world of a psychotic murderer. With a minuscule budget many scenes in the film were shot guerrilla style.

With bill woods horace b. Carpenter ted edwards phyllis diller. Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial for a drug that will they re assured with no complications or side effects whatsoever solve all of their problems permanently. I can t say i enjoyed watching it too much was a bit too sadistic for my taste.

However for it s type this is a very good effort.