Maniac
2012 Dir. Franck Khalfoun Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night Looking for the fight of her life In the real time world, no one sees her at all They all say she's crazy She's a maniac, maniac on the floor And she's dancing like she's never danced before! Sorry! Wrong Maniac . The Maniac I’m actually referring to is Franck Khalfoun’s remake of William Lustig’s 1980 ‘video nasty’ of the same name. Despite its higher budget, slick production values and the presence of a star name in the titles, this update - co-written by Alex Aja ( Switchblade Romance/Haute Tension ) - is every bit as unsettling, extreme and confrontational as its predecessor. And it's all shot from the perspective of the killer. While aesthetically far removed from Lustig’s cult sleaze-fest, Khalfoun’s slickly lensed take on the tale of a young man who hunts, scalps and murders women on the cruel, grimy streets of downtown LA, is still an immensely vicious and unsett...