![]() ![]() Plot to qualify this as a "loose" remake. The setting has been switched from grimy, pre-Disneyfied New York to present-day Los Angeles, and there are enough additional small changes in the That is, nearly the entire film is shot in first-person, giving this new Maniac a voyeuristic, audience-unsettling gaze. Not only do we follow the killer-played by Elijah Wood-we also see through The remake, written by High Tension's Alexandre Aja andĭirected by P2's Franck Khalfoun, takes this to the logical extreme. Serial murderer, to see the events from his homicidal, broken-minded perspective. With Maniac-a movie with a few good ideas but poor execution-there's definitely room forĪ close thematic cousin to Driller Killer and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the original film forces us to empathize with its deranged The idea of a remake, then, is not nearly as offensive as, say, the wholly unnecessary reboots of Texas Chainsaw Massacre,įriday the 13th, and Halloween. See special FX guru Tom Savini's head getting pulped by a shotgun blast-but aside from the blood and guts, it's an exhaustingly grim, poorly paced William Lustig's 1980 cult exploitation movie, Maniac, is known for its low-budget, guerrilla filmmaking aesthetic and gory displays of violence. ![]() ![]() Reviewed by Casey Broadwater, October 13, 2013 That rare horror remake that justifies its own existence. ![]()
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