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List Price: $19.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1980 DVD Release : 21 August, 2001 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | For its time, very good |
| My being a fan of Henry: Portrait of a Seral Killer ultimately led me to this notorious serial killer flick that surprisingly predated Henry, Maniac. While I don't feel that Maniac has aged as well as Henry, it certainly is another great exploration in horror that is more based on real life killers.
Here we witness the story of Joe Zito. Joe is a victim of an abusive mother who carries out his frustrations as an adult by sexually abusing, murdering, and often scalping women. He resides in a scummy apartment filled with mannequins that he dresses with the scalps of his victims. He spends his days in solitude, emerging at night to claim victims at random. Eventually he meets an attractive photographer and forms somewhat of a relationship with her, but even she eventually discovers the menace that Joe is. Truthfully that's about it for this movie. Not much of a real story, just an account of Joe Zito and his horrific crimes particularly against women, as well as his disturbing past haunting him and driving him further into madness. Overall, the film will prove to be a great watch if you like this sort of thing, my only complaint is that it runs a little too short and wasn't very conclusive. Tom Savini's gore effects are sort of hit and miss. The shotgun scene being some of his most convincing work, while the finale of the movie offering some less than credible prosthetics, but for the year it was made his work is quite good. Though perhaps a tad bit dated, Maniac will certainly shock and disgust any who aren't accustomed to graphic violence and gore, or feminists. I recommend this one to hardcore horror fans. |
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