MANIAC (1980)

Directed By: William Lustig 
Written By: Joe Spinell & C.A. Rosenberg 
Story By: Joe Spinell 
Cinematography: Robert Lindsay 
Editor: Larry Marinelli 
Special Make-up & Effects By: Tom Savini 


Cast: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munroe, Tom Savini, Kelly Piper, Rita Monotone, Sharon Mitchell, Frank Pesce 


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. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D'Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe?

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Directed By: Franck Khalfoun 
Written By: Alexandre Aja & Greg Levasseur 
Based on the original Screenplay By: Joe Spinell 
Cinematography By: Maxime Alexandre 
Editor: Baxter & Franck Khalfoun 
Music By: Rob 


Cast: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezander, America Olivio, Genevive Alexandra, Megan Duffy 

 Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.