When I was approached by Horror Bob to review this film, I was reminded of both the abundance of horror films based on real life killers (DAHMER, ED GEIN, THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER, etc.) and a line quoted by Mickey Knox in NATURAL BORN KILLERS when informed that Manson...
When people mention “the worst film,” there is a lot of interpretation to be had with such a phrase. Easily, a 14 year-old with a camcorder and a basement has the (in)ability to make a “production” that trumps the horrendous nature of, say, Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer...
“Maniacts” was kind of a weird movie, I don’t really know how to put it really it was kind of like “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” but a bloodier more violent version. The film is weird, I’d be lying if I said I knew what...
If you’re aware of who director William Lustig and screenwriter Larry Cohen are, you expect to be engaged with a challenging, antiestablishment horror film whenever you sit down to one of their features. However, it is as if Sean Cunningham’s Friday the 13th raped Don...
William Lustig’s “MANIAC” is a violently disturbing journey into the mind of a human monster. Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) is a deranged man with a serious Oedipus complex, and stalks the harsh streets of New York punishing women for reasons that only he seems to...
