Thinking of Horror movies there are some titles you can’t ignore and you won’t forget seeing them once. William Lustig’s Maniac is one of them. Telling the story of a psychopath called Frank Zito hunting down women in New York and scalping them. Frank got a gruel obsession: He nails their hair onto the heads of mannequins he is hiding in his apartment. One of the sickest serial killer in history of cinema was born and the bloody effects of Tom Savini did the rest. In the 80ies the movie was banned in Germany and now re-released with some cuts as it is in the UK (banned and re-released with 58s cuts).
I remember some postings on the web very well as the news went in Alexandre Aja is doing the remake of Maniac. Uh … slaughtering the holy cow! And the hysteria of fans hearing the rumor Elijah Wood (Frodo in Lord of the Rings) will take the role as Frank Zito. Joe Spinell (died 1989 because of an accident in his bathtube) gave Frank a special psychopathic note in the original nobody could imagine that Elijay Wood ever will be able to copy it. And it was a good idea he never tried to. Weiterlesen
