If Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre were artificially inseminated with Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small, the inevitable product would be Juan López Moctezuma’s debut feature, The Mansion of Madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and...
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...
