MANIAC

By Franck KHALFOUN

FILM FEST GENT - as DISTR Theatrical, BELGIUM

Horror - Completed 2012


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2012
Out of Competition
Sitges - Intl Fantastic FF of Catalonia 2012
Oficial Fantastic
    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Horror
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Franck KHALFOUN
    • Writer(s)
    • Alexandre AJA, Gregory LEVASSEUR
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/ED87-92B7-4DE4-CD7E-F8C1-U
    • Producer(s)
    • Thomas LANGMANN (La Petite Reine), Alexandre AJA
    • Synopsis
    • Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. 
       
      Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.
      A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in present-day L.A., MANIAC is a re-boot of the cult film considered by many to be the most suspenseful slasher movie ever made - an intimate, visually daring, psychologically complex and profoundly horrific trip into the downward spiralling nightmare of a killer and his victims.