Chae’s Horror reviews |

Franck Khalfoun’s remake of the 1980s original,

2012 Maniac is shot in first person with gore and nudity.

A third generations mannequin restoration shop owner Frank (Elijah Wood) is a delusional cereal killer with serious mother issues.

Suffering from chronic migraines, and manic depression he has ravenous blood lust episodes of stalking and uncontrollably killing women which he then scalps.

He staples the hair to his mannequins who, he hallucinates, to be alive and antagonizing him.

He becomes obsessed with a French photographer named Anna who photographs mannequins for an art exhibit.

You can guess how that pans out.

This movie is very visual and whimsical with many dream sequences and flashbacks of him as a child watching his mother and her string of men and drug abuse.

I give it 4 stars. I think it’s much better than the original and really takes you down the path of a maniac. Through their eyes. It has a great soundtrack as well.