After A Fashion

Despite being rejected by Facebook, Your Style Avatar is still fortunate and worldwide

"...last week to say anything else about the Worldwide Maniac Foundation (www.worldwidemaniac.com) that brought us the tres glamorous Richie..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Madeline's Madeline

"...the 2012 POV remake of William Lustig's underground classic Maniac, and a final sequence that evokes the wolf mask..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: What's Your Point of View?

For Halloween, some beastly releases of the haunting month

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Oct. 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Is Austin, Not That Great Interview: Fugitive

Power Trip's Blake Ibanez talks new Fort Worth metal venture

"...Soon after formation, the band debuted 2022 EP Maniac. "Hell's Half Acre" chronicles a doomed man whose fate..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Katie Karp

Savini on a Budget

'Maniac' director William Lustig gets two nights at the Ritz

"...double bill of two of his grindy favorites, 1990's Maniac Cop 2 and (no relation) his 1980 breakthrough pyschosleazefest,..."

Feb. 9, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Halloween II

Rob Zombie's sequel to his 2007 remake of the original Halloween features Michael Myers coming back to town to wrap up some family business.

"...Kirk mask). Myers could be seen as a lone maniac operating in a classic, stand-alone cinematic environment or as..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All the Gory Details

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

"...AC: Maniac is a movie that people have really reviled over..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Maniac

"...Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, EG Marshall, Ted Danson. MANIAC D: William Lustig (1980); with Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell,..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Albino Alligator

"...of the woefully inappropriately named Law, a sociopathic Cajun maniac who plays the rampant Id to Sinise’s melancholy Ego...."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scream

"...not to do when being pursued by an axe-wielding maniac, but sadly, very few ever had the chance to..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: School's Out!

"Evil Speak" and "Final Exam" vie for murder cum laude

"...Exam (1981) is a by-the-numbers 80s slasher. A faceless maniac is slicing and dicing his way across a series..."

May 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Palindrome's staging succeeds in the acting department but fails as a political statement

"...effective, but Noel Gaulin is a revelation as the Maniac, delivering dialogue and physical comedy with frantic intensity. He..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

TV Eye

"Down There" gets its proper due on HBO.

"...I-Maniacs Unite Following the lead of Star Trek fans in..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Scanlines

"...Maniac..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Screens Feature

Thanksgiving

Eli Roth's fake trailer gets a real (and really fun) slasher

"...not to sympathize at least a little with the maniac wearing a mask of John Carver (the first governor..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Strangler

Restored French serial killer flick is more Albert Camus than Freddy Krueger

"...slasher cinema, it is probably the horrifying and tragic Maniac, for its willingness to insert the audience into the..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Haunted Mansion

Second movie based on the Disney ride isn't worth wasting a Lightning Lane booking

"...denying it an opportunity for a Jack Sparrow-esque charismatic maniac...."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sympathy for the Devil

Nicolas Cage goes old school in this unhinged midnight noir

"...seems to have deliberately shied away from invoking that maniac energy: For 2016 heist flick Dog Eat Dog, director..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Scream VI

The meta-horror franchise gets less meta, more brutal

"...speak. Having survived the latest massacre by a knife-wielding maniac wearing an Edvard Munch-inspired disguise in that fifth (albeit..."

March 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

She Is Love

Dry love-triangle comedy sacrifices honesty for hollow style

"...this seemingly successful professional should act like a complete maniac, but by the time she’s smeared in commedia dell’arte-inspired..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

No Time to Die

Daniel Craig's last Bond adventure is a misfire

"...is Malek as Lyutsifer Safin, a waffling, mumbling pseudophilosophical maniac with the standard grand plans for global domination. Meanwhile..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Sparks Brothers

Edgar Wright reveals the wonderful, mysterious Mael brothers

"...boy with the angel voice, and Ron, the tight-laced maniac with his Charlie Chaplin moustache (subject of a whole..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Unconventional werewolf story turns the beast on its head

"...John promises his father he’s going to catch this maniac, but he and his fellow cops are clueless, and..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tread

Madness, paranoia, and a goddam homemade tank in this terrifying documentary

"...comes from, or an Andrew Joseph Stack III (the maniac that flew his plane into an Austin office building..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gretel & Hansel

The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...

"...key contributor is the half-electronic score by Robert Coudert (Maniac). Coudert, who goes under the screen name of Rob,..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...new 4K restoration of the game-changing serial killer shocker Maniac...."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...Takahide Hori is a maniac and a genius, which makes him the perfect stop-motion..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Officer Downe

Slipknot's Clown turns director, plus more home releases

"...Shawn Crahan (best known as percussionist, backing vocalist, and maniac-in-chief Clown from mega-selling metallers Slipknot). But he's working straight..."

April 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prevenge

"...Lowe is probably best known to U.S. audiences as maniac-in-the-making Tina in Ben Wheatley's pitch-black romantic comedy Sightseers. Yet..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Yakuza Apocalypse

Japan’s nuttiest filmmaker Takashi Miike strikes again

"...Ruhian (The Raid films) shows up as an anime-besotted maniac, and the rest of the cast go fittingly foolish..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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