Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Maniac (1980)



A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies.

Quite competently made slasher, but particularly disturbing by telling the story through the killer's point of view, a chillingly accurate performance by Joe Spinell and garish effects.

Maltin BOMB: "Unrelenting exercise in nihilistic gore...Although an excellent character actor, coscriptwriter-producer-star Spinell bears most of the blame for this claustrophobic, sickening film."

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