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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I feel like I only do reviews for movies I dislike, or at least feel really strongly about. Maniac is definitely one of those movies. This movie just rubbed me the wrong way. It was too gory. Like way way way WAY too gory. I know gore is an art form and it takes talent to make it look good, but there is no way that you can possibly justify showing me three gruesome and detailed scalpings and a a scene of a man puking up what looks like dogfood and expect me to enjoy that. There's no reason for it to be in the film. It's pretty gross but mainly its just obnoxious. The first person view this movie goes for is cool and pretty well done, but it definitely leads to some issues. This movie has some terrible voiceovers, like when Frank is at a date the girl says multiple things without her mouth ever moving. There's also a scene where Frank punches somebody (complete with the generic thwack sound) without his arm ever moving. These problems with the first person don't completely ruin the effect, and it even has some nice transitions into third person. However, this movies sh!t acting by nearly all characters, weak story, overused and pornographized use of gore, all make this movie not worth watching. It's not even fun to watch as just as a straight up murder spree type film cause of the sh!tty forced story between Elijah Wood and the random @ss girl he falls in love with that takes up too much time. Don't watch this movie

I watch a LOT of horror, from quality to sh*t and I generally try to look for the positive aspects in even the poor ones, but I have my standards (as I do with every other genre, horror doesn't just get a free pass although I am more lenient in suspending belief). I do have my limits as to what I'm willing to believe or take seriously ...First of all, the first person thing has been done to death at this point and really doesn't add much to this specific movie. Nothing original there.... that being said, the cinematography is beautiful and the soundtrack is awesome. That's about all this movie has going for it.The acting is pretty atrocious by most of the cast including Elijah Wood himself. The dialogue seems so forced and unnatural by him and the first few females he encounters. It all sounds incredibly scripted and forced....and corny.The intro to the movie starts out by showing the night lights of the city, people mingling and walking around, city full of life...yet for some reason every time he decides to stalk a female in this very lit up city, not a single soul is anywhere within sight conveniently enough, regardless of desperate screams and plodding chase scenes. It feels incredibly silly. This is not a minor detail and cannot be brushed aside. The only people that seem to be conveniently around at JUST the right moments are the beautiful females he encounters, who regardless of how unsettling and creepy (Elijah) looks and behaves, somehow become attracted/infatuated with him and hand themselves over on a silver platter. There's one scene specifically where the girl is asking him to grab her breasts and he does...only thing is his hands have cuts, bruises, dirt, scabs and everything else you can think of, yet she doesn't bat an eye.I found the entire film to be rather pretentious, and each scene more predictable than the previous. I was incredibly bored and rather irritated. I tried to like it, but it is just not a very good horror flick...

Well if you like gore and want to know what our little Hobbitsis friend has been up too now that he's a 'Maniac' (see what I did there? The film is called maniac so I......oh never mind) with a slightly unhealthy relationship with his mother.No I'm not talking about M.J either.But seriously, if you would like to squirm and look away, well I bet you do it at some point during it - then this might be for you. I like to say this film fits into a surreal context due to his imagination and as other dear reviewers point out - the streets seem empty when he's on the prowl.Definitely underrated and one to watch.

A remake of William Lustig's 1980's classic stalker/slasher/gore movie and it's actually done really really well in Frank Khalfoun's 2012 version. A young man with unresolved mother issues is stalking and scalping young women on the streets of America. Frank Zito (Elijah "Frodo Baggins" Wood) is a loner who owns a mannequin restoration shop by day and by night he gobbles up loads of pills to try and keep his hallucinations and desire to kill under control. Despite the pill intake his fetish is to stalk women on social media and lure them into situations where he can remove their scalps takes over for the majority of the time. One day he meets a young French lady Anna D'Antoni (Nora Arnezeder) who he seems to get along with. As he tried to keep his demons under control their relationship grows, he even helps her art exhibition, it's not until Anna's agent Rita (Jan Broberg) is murdered that Anna starts suspecting Frank may be involved, but by then Frank is in Anna's apartment. Subjectivity and involvement is explored through point of view shots, you literally see directly through the killers eyes which some will like and some will really struggle with when watching - in fact you have to wait a full 12 minutes before you get to see Frank's face. Some people can't stomach the content of the film let alone this gut churning involvement in the action, add in a large dose of gore and you have a film that not everybody will enjoy but is true to the original if not a step up which in this day of remakes and reboots is refreshing. There are nod's to the original, for example in the restaurant near the beginning when Frank meets Lucie and she says that she thankful that Frank isn't "Fat, with long black hair and greasy skin full of acne" - this is how Joe Spinell's Frank appeared in the 1980 version of the film. Likewise another nod comes when Frank has scalped a young a girl in the car park, the shadow cast from the street lights is a homage to the original movie poster from 1980. If only they'd managed to get Tom Savini in the remake like he appeared in the original that would have been great, maybe he'd have helped with using old-school style effects instead of some of the questionable CGI, but hey-ho, CGI seems to be part of most modern films so this is a gripe I can live with. The use of CGI is probably my biggest gripe with the film but all in all I don't have that many other issues with it. Musically this film is great, the score is atmospheric, creepy and tense. From a technical point of view Frank's dialogue capture is great, the tone and pitch of his voice varies depending on his situation and environment so you aren't limited to a monotone dialogue, very clever indeed. Using Elijah Wood may anger some people as he's still somewhat of a babyface good guy and an established Hollywood player but I liked his casting as it serves as great juxtaposition when comparing audience expectations of how he should be behaving, unless you are a big film fan and have seen some of his other darker castings you won't expect this style of Elijah. While the original felt to me like typical American 80's horror this version by Khalfoun feels more arty and European which some may like and other will instantly hate. In summary this is a really good gut churning creepy film which is going to be received like Marmite, some people will love it, some will hate it. I wouldn't watch this with your family or kids, I would however wait till it's dark and close the curtains to make it even spookier. I'm giving this a 7 out of 10 and a massive thumbs up. Some films are easy to forget, some stay with you - this is one which stays with you.