Maniac
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2013-10-15
Genre: Horror
Sub-genre: Thriller
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Stars: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo, Liane Balaban, Megan Duffy, Jan Broberg, Sammi Rotibi, Genevieve Alexandra, Brian Ames, Aaron Colom
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna (Nora Arnezeder) appears asking for his help with her new exhibition.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. A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in present day LA, Franck Khalfoun's Maniac is a re-boot of the William Lustig cult film considered by many to be the most suspensseful slasher movie ever made - an intimate, visually daring, psychologically complex and projoundly horrific trip into the downward spiralling nightmare of a killer and his victims.
  Source: IFC