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Maniac
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I warned you not to go out tonight!
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, kills and mutilates young women and local models on the streets of New York City.
Director: William Lustig
Cast: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Nelia Bacmeister, Denise Spagnuolo
Cast: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Nelia Bacmeister, Denise Spagnuolo
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Maniac (1980), directed by William Lustig, V2 Blue Underground 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 7.1 remaster, original theatrical stereo, three commentary tracks, and subtitles in fifteen languages.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081114/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : The exploitation film meets the slasher in this ultra-gritty low budget film from Raging Bull's nephew, superfan of the word "Maniac", and sometime Dario Argento location manager William Lustig, which has a not very noteworthy plot, but is elevated by a fearless, balls to the wall performance by 70s character actor Joe Spinell, who just goes above and beyond here as a crazed mama's boy with some severe issues, talking to himself, imagining his dead mother abusing him, and scalping women while sweating profusely. There's also a memorable sequence where Tom Savini creates the SFX for Tom Savini shooting Tom Savini in the head with a shotgun, although the effect itself isn't as memorable as the one in Scanners, which remains the gold standard for exploding heads. Cast also includes Caroline Munro as the love interest with a perspiration fetish, and not very many other actors you've ever heard of.
NYC landlord Frank Zito is unwell. He lives by himself in an apartment full of mannequins, onto whose heads he nails the scalps of the women he kills, and he keeps an altar to his dead abusive mother, whose voice he hears and occasionally speaks in. At night he goes out to hunt prostitutes, couples parked on lovers' lane (Son of Sam style), nurses on their way home, and, later on, models. There's a glimpse of the possibility of change when he meets a Anna, a photographer who takes his picture in the park, and who he later invites to dinner, but his murderous urges and mommy fixation are never far beneath the surface. Landlords, man, they're just the worst.
This is a completely decent looking 4k remaster of this quite rough-looking film, which was shot guerrilla style with very little light, and is therefore grainy and dark in general. I think the grain could have been managed better, but there's not much else that could be improved, I think. The 7.1 remaster (why?) sounds fine, and there's the original theatrical stereo if you prefer that, as well as three commentary tracks, one of which features the omnipresent Savini. This V2 encode cranks the bitrate and improves encoding settings on both video and audio, and adds the third commentary track.
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081114/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : The exploitation film meets the slasher in this ultra-gritty low budget film from Raging Bull's nephew, superfan of the word "Maniac", and sometime Dario Argento location manager William Lustig, which has a not very noteworthy plot, but is elevated by a fearless, balls to the wall performance by 70s character actor Joe Spinell, who just goes above and beyond here as a crazed mama's boy with some severe issues, talking to himself, imagining his dead mother abusing him, and scalping women while sweating profusely. There's also a memorable sequence where Tom Savini creates the SFX for Tom Savini shooting Tom Savini in the head with a shotgun, although the effect itself isn't as memorable as the one in Scanners, which remains the gold standard for exploding heads. Cast also includes Caroline Munro as the love interest with a perspiration fetish, and not very many other actors you've ever heard of.
NYC landlord Frank Zito is unwell. He lives by himself in an apartment full of mannequins, onto whose heads he nails the scalps of the women he kills, and he keeps an altar to his dead abusive mother, whose voice he hears and occasionally speaks in. At night he goes out to hunt prostitutes, couples parked on lovers' lane (Son of Sam style), nurses on their way home, and, later on, models. There's a glimpse of the possibility of change when he meets a Anna, a photographer who takes his picture in the park, and who he later invites to dinner, but his murderous urges and mommy fixation are never far beneath the surface. Landlords, man, they're just the worst.
This is a completely decent looking 4k remaster of this quite rough-looking film, which was shot guerrilla style with very little light, and is therefore grainy and dark in general. I think the grain could have been managed better, but there's not much else that could be improved, I think. The 7.1 remaster (why?) sounds fine, and there's the original theatrical stereo if you prefer that, as well as three commentary tracks, one of which features the omnipresent Savini. This V2 encode cranks the bitrate and improves encoding settings on both video and audio, and adds the third commentary track.
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