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Maniac (18)

Crime, Horror, Thriller

The owner of a mannequin shop develops a dangerous obsession with a young artist.


The critical consensus

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.

****(*)Adam Smith, Empire Online, 11/03/2013

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.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 13/03/2013

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.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Paul Gallagher, The List, 13/03/2013

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.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 14/03/2013

I found it intestine-squishingly horrible, but also dreary.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 14/03/2013

This Maniac may have artistic aspirations but it doesn't make the film any more palatable.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 15/03/2013

That soundtrack! Those visuals! That camerawork! Trippy POV horror.

Anton Bitel, Little White Lies, 14/03/2013

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.

The Independent, 16/03/2013

I doubt if cult status is in the offing, but who predicted a future for Michael Powell's Peeping Tom?

Philip French, The Observer, 17/03/2013


Features about Maniac (18)

Alexandre Aja: How I Turned Daniel Radcliffe into the Devil

David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 13/03/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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