Reviews for this film from our members:
- Beth Accomando @ KPBS Cinema Junkie
- Excerpt: Khalfoun gives us an unflinchingly brutal film that places the viewer in the role of accomplice with disturbingly effective results.
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- [New – 10/31] | José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: With the possible exception of Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM, [the first-person POV is] a trick rarely executed as potently in horror as it is here and certainly never sustained as successfully.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Slasher films have gotten more grimy, grisy and gruesome – but few earn the three R;s: repulsive, repugnant and rank.
- Mark Harris @ About.com
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Hardly the psychologically fascinating character study it thinks it is, this Z-grade slasher pornography with experimental pretensions is gratuitously nasty and will be undeservedly controversial.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Something tells me that Spinell would be proud of 2012’s Maniac, which is sick, disturbing, incredibly violent – and also a significant work with genuine artistic vision that cannot be as easily dismissed as the original.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: “Maniac” mantém a tradição de não ser para o público alargado, mas no geral proporcionará bons momentos a quem apreciar o slasher.
Exactly as to be expected from a movie with a premise as this-not anything good