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Maniac

Cast

Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper View All


Crew

Joe Spinell (Screenplay), William Lustig (Director) View All

Release: Nov. 7th, 1980
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
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cat_sidhe
It is a thing of revolting beauty that is easily right up there in my top 5 exploding head scenes of all time.
Sexy Celebrity
Besides the murder scenes with women, there's a little plot involving Frank dating a photographer (Caroline Munro), whose passion for photographing women attracts Frank, since he's passionate about...
Takoma11
Something that I definitely appreciated was the clear delineation that the film made between the (unseen) character of the mother and the women who are victimized by Frank.
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