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Maniac is a 1980 American psychological slasher film directed by William Lustig and written by C. A. Rosenberg. It stars Joe Spinell as Frank Zito, an Italian-American serial killer residing in New York City who murders and scalps young women.
Mar 6, 1981 · Maniac: Directed by William Lustig. With Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper. A psychopathic man goes on a killing and mutilation spree in New York City.
- (20K)
- Crime, Drama, Horror
- William Lustig
- 1981-03-06
Childhood abuse triggers a man (Joe Spinell) to kill women and use their scalps to dress his mannequins.
- (20)
- William Lustig
- R
- Joe Spinell
Summaries. A psychopathic man goes on a killing and mutilation spree in New York City. Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her.
Bill Lustig and Joe Spinell create a deeply disturbed portrait of a deranged man turned serial killer who, as a way of coping with the childhood abuse from his mother, savagely murders young women—scalping them in the process and adding the freshly cut headpieces to his mannequin collection.
- (31.6K)
- Magnum Motion Pictures Inc., MPO Videotronics
- William Lustig
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- 88 min
