Maniac review

Director Franck Khalfoun and writer Alexandre Aja remake William Lustig’s 1980 shocker

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Undeterred by the horror that was , di🍃rector Franck Khalfoun and writer Alexandre Aja now remake William Lustig’s 1980 shocker.

Transposed from a squalid NY to a bizarrely deserted LA, it sees Elijah Wood’s nutjob scalp his female kills to bring fles🐭hy lif⭕e to a gallery of mannequins.

The scuzz-chic visuals, sleaze-synth score and deep-cutting gore are effective, and shooting fro🔴m the killer’s POV proves🍌 a valid USP.

But Wood, despite giving his allꦐ, cannot match Joe Spinell’s unhinged turn in the original: nightmares in a🥂 damaged brain indeed.

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