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User Reviews for: Maniac

moonkodi
CONTAINS SPOILERS1/10  8 years ago
I thought it was dumb. From the intro where he takes the scalp off a woman from just touching the knife on her head to meeting an online woman who happens to be a slut (acts like a porn actress because that's what women do dur) and he unoriginally kills her to the song from silence of the lambs, as she acts terribly. The point of view adds nothing. I'd say it even limits the experience and makes it all seem even more amateurish. Seems it's made to look like a video game perhaps? As he meets the art girl with the portfolio full of black and white photos I'm wondering if kids made this movie and if their life experience was limited to the Internet. He stabs a girl in the street and it's very obvious he's using a joke knife. It's not even masked well. Awful shot.
It's not scary either. Despite the POV it didn't feel particularly stalker-like at all. The music and direction didn't even help create tension at any point.
The effects were OK sometimes.
I'm not a massive fan of the original but I can see how it could gain some following and how people could like it. Spinell was also scary because he was a strong guy. Elijah Wood was a miss match.
Avoid
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