Immediately at the beginning of the 80s, Maniac appeared an extremely violent mix of slasher excess and psychodrama, which upgraded the film landscape. In Germany the film by director William was funny indexed until 2019. In the meantime it is available uncut. In other countries, Maniac also caused turmoil for unauthorized demonstrations.
Brutal Slasher Maniac is available in Germany uncut
In Lustig’s film, the outsider Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) lives alone in his apartment after a childhood trauma, surrounded by mannequins. At night he is traveling as a serial killer in New York, where he Young women stalk and finally killed. One day he falls in love with the photographer Anna (Caroline Munro).
In addition to the at the same time fascinating and repulsive performance of Spinell in the leading role, Maniac lives from the representation of New York as a lonely, cold juggern. There are also extreme violent scenes with the support of special effects master Tom Savini.
Some of them fail so brutally that the strip was indicated in Germany from 1983 to 2019. According to the cutting reports, the uncut version received one in 2020 FSK 18 approval. Then Maniac Uncut was released on DVD or Blu-ray.
In Great Britain, Maniac even triggered police operations
In other countries, the extreme slasher also caused turmoil. In Great Britain, for example, Maniac received even a strongly censor no age rating And was therefore not allowed to be listed in cinemas. However, some operators did not stick to it and still played Maniac – which resulted in police operations.
In 2012, a remake of the film was published under the title Alexandre Ajas Maniac. Here the rings star Elijah Wood plays the mentally ill protagonist. As a special feature, the entire film is staged by POV settings from the killer perspective.
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