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Un maniaco omicida, tormentato dai ricordi degli abusi subiti da bambino, uccide giovani donne e colleziona i loro scalpi come trofei. Le cose si complicano quando si infatua di una bella fo... Leggi tuttoUn maniaco omicida, tormentato dai ricordi degli abusi subiti da bambino, uccide giovani donne e colleziona i loro scalpi come trofei. Le cose si complicano quando si infatua di una bella fotografa.Un maniaco omicida, tormentato dai ricordi degli abusi subiti da bambino, uccide giovani donne e colleziona i loro scalpi come trofei. Le cose si complicano quando si infatua di una bella fotografa.
- Premi
- 1 candidatura
Abigail Clayton
- Rita
- (as Gail Lawrence)
James L. Brewster
- Beach Boy
- (as James Brewster)
Frank Pesce
- T.V. Reporter
- (voce)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizWilliam Lustig and Joe Spinell say they didn't always have the necessary permits to film on location in New York City. Certain scenes (including the infamous shotgun through the windshield scene) had to have been filmed quickly and afterwards the crew had to run away before the cops arrived.
- BlooperThe nurse is supposedly alone in the subway station, but during one shot (from inside the subway train as it pulls away) we can see several people walking about on the platform; they all disappear in the next shot.
- Citazioni
Frank Zito: I told you not to go out tonight, didn't I? Every time you go out, this kind of thing happens.
- Versioni alternativeThe film was rejected for a cinema certificate in 1981 by the BBFC and also for a video rating in 1998. It was finally released in the UK on the Anchor Bay label in 2002 after receiving 58 secs of cuts to a prolonged strangulation scene and to a sexualized stabbing sequence.
- ConnessioniEdited from Inferno (1980)
Recensione in evidenza
"Maniac" is one of the few horror movies that I have seen that actually got under my skin a little. It made me feel uncomfortable while I watched what was happening on screen, and very few movies have ever done that to me. The movie follows a psychotic murderer as he wanders the streets of New York City, in cheap restaurants, rundown apartment complexes, and subway stations, searching for his next victims, each of them savagely murdered.
The plot for this movie may not seem very scary, but the way the movie is crafted is genuinely grisly and really made me feel uncomfortable. Rather than going from the victim's point of view as they are slashed to pieces (like most horror movies tend to do), this movie rather focuses on the actual killer himself. We learn about the abuse that he suffered as a small child at the hands of his domineering mother, which is presumably the reason he's become a murderer, taking out his own personal revenge on other people. The one thing about this movie that was so interesting was how the audience got to enter the mind of the killer, so to speak. Joe Spinell gave an excellent performance as the maniac in this movie, he portrayed a tormented human very well. There are some very grisly murders throughout the movie, all of which are fairly gruesome. But the most disturbing aspect to the film was the sense of psychosis that the killer is experiencing.
"Maniac" is surely similar to "Psycho", which makes me wonder whether or not the writers of this film were basing the plot on the real life serial killer Ed Gein, who also grew up with an abusive mother and suffered psychological problems later on as an adult, which ultimately drove him to grave-robbing and murder. There are some striking similarities between the story of this film and Ed Gein's life.
Overall, "Maniac" is one grisly, nasty movie. It displays the psychological torment that many real-life serial killers suffer from and does a good job at it, leaving it's audience uncomfortable in their seats. And from what I have seen, not many movies do that. 7/10.
The plot for this movie may not seem very scary, but the way the movie is crafted is genuinely grisly and really made me feel uncomfortable. Rather than going from the victim's point of view as they are slashed to pieces (like most horror movies tend to do), this movie rather focuses on the actual killer himself. We learn about the abuse that he suffered as a small child at the hands of his domineering mother, which is presumably the reason he's become a murderer, taking out his own personal revenge on other people. The one thing about this movie that was so interesting was how the audience got to enter the mind of the killer, so to speak. Joe Spinell gave an excellent performance as the maniac in this movie, he portrayed a tormented human very well. There are some very grisly murders throughout the movie, all of which are fairly gruesome. But the most disturbing aspect to the film was the sense of psychosis that the killer is experiencing.
"Maniac" is surely similar to "Psycho", which makes me wonder whether or not the writers of this film were basing the plot on the real life serial killer Ed Gein, who also grew up with an abusive mother and suffered psychological problems later on as an adult, which ultimately drove him to grave-robbing and murder. There are some striking similarities between the story of this film and Ed Gein's life.
Overall, "Maniac" is one grisly, nasty movie. It displays the psychological torment that many real-life serial killers suffer from and does a good job at it, leaving it's audience uncomfortable in their seats. And from what I have seen, not many movies do that. 7/10.
- drownsoda90
- 28 lug 2006
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- 瘋狂殺手
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Hotel St. James, 109 West 45th St, Manhattan, New York, New York, Stati Uniti(the hotel where Frank kills the prostitute)
- Azienda produttrice
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- Budget
- 350.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 27 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1
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