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This is a very gory and bloody film and unless you don't mind watching these types of films you won't like it. I've not seen the original so I can't compare the two. Elijah Wood is an actor I like and he is excellent in this as the serial killing maniac. I found it hard to get into the film but this is one film that gradually improves as it goes along rather than fades away. Along with the bloody horror there are a number of really tense scenes. It is the most unsettling film I've seen in a while. Maniac is well filmed and uses some very interesting filming techniques. I can't say I enjoyed watching it too much was a bit too sadistic for my taste. However for it's type this is a very good effort.

This movie is disturbing and disgusting but if you're watching it that's the point. It had a lot of points that made me feel -- for lack of a better word -- plain icky.Elijah Wood does a great job dialing up the creep factor -- he is incredibly believable as an unadulterated psychopath. Maniac recently got banned in some locales because of its content, so that alone says that it does well in the horror genre.It's unsettling, creepy, gross. It does what it sets out to do pretty well. The direction is good in this film as is the cinematography; for a remake it was exceptional!

The original film is very disturbing, creepy, and was the stuff of nightmares, this remake is the latter, but for different reasons. I hated the direction of it, they literally copied the early eighties style, the storytelling was distracting, slow and totally disengaging for the viewer.They literally just sent for sick and shock factor, that's all this movie is, a stomach churning series of events, designed to distract you from how bad the movie actually is.Lacking in both style and substance, Elijah Wood did as well with the script as he possibly could, but it's impossible for him, in what is essentially a trashy gore fest. 3/10