The owner of a mannequin shop develops a dangerous obsession with a young artist.
At last an intelligent horror remake that understands its source material and yet brings something new to the butcher’s slab. Gritty, gory, and the best movie about Mannequins since Andrew McCarthy got the hots for his.
A remake, one that features a bona fide star in Elijah Wood, as well as a more artful approach to the visuals, if not the actual storytelling.
Simply put, for viewers who would like to see lots of women, some of them naked, being strangled, stabbed, drowned, and, this killer’s particular favourite, scalped, in intense detail from the perspective of the one doing the damage, there is much to like here.
The single selling-point of this violent and boring slasher flick is that it's filmed entirely from the killer's POV – though it muffs even that gimmick at times.
I found it intestine-squishingly horrible, but also dreary.
Nasty and salacious.
This Maniac may have artistic aspirations but it doesn't make the film any more palatable.
That soundtrack! Those visuals! That camerawork! Trippy POV horror.
If you fancy watching someone scalp young women, then pin their bloodied hair to a mannequin, go to see this. On second thoughts, don't.
I doubt if cult status is in the offing, but who predicted a future for Michael Powell's Peeping Tom?
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