And despite the characterization, the film-makers guilty of this sleazy, trashy and gory crime can't plead insanity, either. Poor Caroline Munro is long way from her Hammer films Dracula AD 1972 or Captain Kronos - Vampire hunter and Joe Spinell has left trashy and sleazy artsiness of Taxi driver to play a mentally ill killer, sympathetic although his actions are truly disgusting. The duo meets and befriends (shades of Peeping Tom) but the disgusting disease in the killer's brain may put the sweet heroine in danger... Wholesome cleanliness and beauty is not the name of the game, while gore effects by Tom Savini star with Caroline and Joe.
Maniac
(1980)
Spare me from the filthy sewers of sane mind - and I mean filth!
8 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers