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Maniac

2012

Franck Khalfoun

Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo, Liane Balaban ...

5.4

4,761

Horror Frank leads a solitary life as the owner of a mannequin store. At first glance, he seems like the kind of guy who wouldn’t harm a fly. However, there is something profoundly disturbing in his look; a dark, perverse secret that will reemerge following his encounter with Anna, a young artist who turns to him for help with an exhibit. Alexandre Aja and his partner in mischief Gregory Levasseur were in charge of writing and sponsoring this ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Megan Lehmann The Hollywood Reporter	"Slasher-movie fans need not be put off by the stylized camera work (...), this is down and dirty genre filmmaking, and the various slaughters (...) and other atrocities are no less gruesome because of the highfalutin approach"	NEU
United States	Rob Nelson Variety	"This merciless work of anti-entertainment is arguably admirable for being as disturbingly disgusting as it wants to be"	NEU
United Kingdom	Guy Lodge Time Out	"It's the kind of inferior remake that also invites questions about the original's cult status (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I found it intestine-squishingly horrible, but also dreary (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Eventually it collapses in a gore fest of nauseating brutality that makes you wonder why they bothered at all (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG

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