Impressively stylish in all aspects and brutal in ways the original couldn't pull off. Effectively reimagines the core concept while also injecting it with fresh perspectives that feel organic as opposed to artbitrary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2023

With its unique style, a career-redefining turn from Elijah Wood and insane levels of violence, this is not only one of the better remakes of recent years, but also one of the best horror films of the decade.

| Jun 10, 2021

[Franck] Khalfoun's Maniac is about as human as one can get. A heart-pounding, heart-stopping cinematic experience.

| Nov 27, 2019

It's certainly a much better grindhouse film than many of the recent takes on the genre even if it does make the occasional misstep.

| Aug 2, 2019

I appreciated just how bloody and uncomfortably slow each scalping was. Even for someone like me, it was pretty vomit-inducing, and really impressive.

| Mar 2, 2019

I went out for a walk after watching this movie, and I still felt like I was looking through the eyes of a psychopath.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 1, 2018

One for hard-core gore-hounds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Maniac is gripping from beginning to end and more intellectual than your average slasher flick.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 16, 2016

Does a fine job of balancing some legitimately smart ideas with its requisite moments of pain, suffering, and horror.

| Aug 24, 2015

Leave it to the French to conclude that a remake of a quintessentially American (and steadfastly '70s New York) fleapit horror flick is not only possible but necessary.

| Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2015

Director Khalfoun paints a wonderful and engrossing horror thriller that lets Wood shine as a bonafide monster...

| Feb 20, 2014

Maniac, like its forebear, simply doesn't possess enough material to warrant the full-length feature treatment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2013

Look, dating is tough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2013

There's nothing about Maniac to set it apart from the countless other films about countless other psychos who kill countless other women.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 5, 2013

A creepy experiment that stays with you.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 2013

The motives for his character remain cloudy, and the film is more interested in gratuitous gore than suspense.

| Jul 22, 2013

Frodo Baggins as a psycho-killer? Why not?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 11, 2013

Beyond the killings, there isn't much mystery to Wood's Frank. He has Norman Bates Syndrome. The end.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2013

Khalfoun gives us an unflinchingly brutal film that places the viewer in the role of accomplice with disturbingly effective results.

| Jul 5, 2013

The sadistic proceedings here are pointless, and not very scary.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 5, 2013