Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

GL84 Living in New York City, a man working as a mannequin-restorer at a family-owned shop tries to keep his murderous tendencies in check around a beautiful artist who wants to explore his work further only for the murderous urges to creep back in and endanger everyone around him.This was an enjoyable enough if slightly flawed remake. One of the more enjoyable aspects of this one is the one aspect carried over from the original in that the brutality is top-notch here. Given all the focus on scalping and the brutality involved there that details the various kills featured, there's a much sharper and more graphic focus on those methods than expected which generate some rather gruesome kills. The multitude of scalping done here are convincing, excruciating to watch and pulled off rather well with the knife entering the body and the sight of the flesh ripping and tearing as they're removed including some while they're still alive which helps to make for quite an impressive and bloody sight. As well, this one also generates plenty of graphic and gory sequences here where it showcases both the brutality dashed out in his crimes as well as the stellar flesh-ripping fun to be had in the finale which has plenty of rather bloody imagery. As well, this one manages to really get a lot to like out of the portrayal of the main psycho as the manner of him being a disturbed and clearly unhinged individual from the start has given this a frightening persona. Fighting off the craziness that's slowly creeping in allows for a rather obvious sense of suspense in when he's going to snap causes this to be quite enjoyable in the detailing of his life with every part of it documented here. These issues here really are what holds this up over it's few minor if largely-detrimental issues. The main problem affecting this one is that, despite all this great work here promoting the idea of his insanity, the film really doesn't have much interesting going on for a large majority of the time. The fact that spending the entire time in his personal viewpoint, even spending the time to see his reflection in mirrors or windows or even shiny surfaces gives this nothing all that interesting to watch play out, even going so far as to be outright boring as the idea of watching him cry in front of mannequins or complain about his mother's history of abuse problems and taking it out on women. These don't make him any more creepy than a regular psychopath, and the scenes featuring this are rather irritating to get through. That manages to give the film a lot of scenes where he comes off like a simpering loser rather than a brutal take-charge maniac out taking women's scalps and really loses a lot of the appeal and danger of the situation. Likewise, the ending is just a chaotic and wholly bland mess that just doesn't offer much clarity at all as to what's going on and just doesn't make any sense at all beyond bringing up more gore and action. Otherwise, there's not much else to this one.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, Graphic Violence, several sex scenes and drug use.

gwnightscream Elijah Wood and Nora Arnezeder star in this 2012 horror remake of the 1980 film. Wood (The Faculty) plays Frank, a mentally disturbed, young man who is fixated on youthful beauty. He starts murdering women and removes their scalps to place on mannequins. Soon, he meets photographer, Anna (Arnezeder) and starts to fall for her. Eventually, Anna learns that Frank is not whom he appears to be. This is a pretty good remake, Wood is great in it, I like some of the POV shots and there's some gruesome make-up effects. I recommend this.

lojitsu A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Maniac" (R - 2012 - US)Sub-Genre: POV/SlasherMy Score: 7.3Cast=6 Acting=9 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=7 Scare=7 Jump=5 F/X=8 POV=8 Blood=8As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface. "Please don't scream. You're beautiful." The opening scene of this film is one of the best I have ever watched in the genre!! After that, it kind of levels off and never peaks again. The POV scenes were really well done and Elijah Wood was great in his role. I did not see the original, so I can't say how this one compares as a remake. As a standalone horror film, however, this is well worth a watch!!

Leofwine_draca MANIAC is an unwanted remake of the classic Joe Spinell video nasty of the same name from 1980, a film about a psychopath with a habit of scalping women. This new version follows exactly the same story (right down to the horrific nightmare climax) with 'improved' CGI gore effects over the original, although I have to say they're nowhere near the quality of the much-remembered Tom Savini prosthetic effects work.In any case, this is an incredibly dark odyssey of murder and madness. I thought the material would have been watered down but this is just as grisly and depressing as the original. There's plenty of reason to watch, not least Elijah Wood who makes a good psychopath (as he did in SIN CITY); the whole film is shot through the killer's point of view which gives things an edgy, fresh feel. I loved the use of music and cinematography throughout, which reminded me of Refn's style in DRIVE, so it's a little bit of a shame that the story is so unrelentingly dark and miserable. I'd love to see an action or martial arts film done in this same POV style, though.