A giant slice of sleaze. Spinell is legitimately good as the insane and tortured title character, and Tom Savini's gore effects are terrific fun, but there's just too much of a grungy, dirty quality to this that it lost me in the end.
This review of Maniac (1980) was written by Brett B on 13 Jul 2011.
Maniac has generally received mixed reviews.
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