Top 37 must-see best maniac movies from maniac movies, including Halloween, Blue Velvet, Barbarian, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Pearl, Tenebre, Someone's Watching Me!, The Menu, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Sleepy Hollow ranked and rated by score.
Plot / Synopsis: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sad**tic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Tagline: Deep down... we're all killers...
Director: Chris Moore Stars: Don McManus, Ryanne Duzich, Teddy Dunn, Daniel Franzese, Agnes Bruckner
Plot / Synopsis: When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.Tagline: If you could find out exactly when you're going to die...
Director: Justin Dec Stars: Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Peter Facinelli, Dillon Lane
Plot / Synopsis: A decent-looking lad called Dennis Skinner rents an apartment in a couple's house, Kerry and Geoff. At night he roams the streets with a goodie-bag filled with knives looking for victims to skin, constantly followed by the hobbling, wobbling junkie Heidi who was mutilated by him and is now looking for revenge. Dennis is attracted to Kerry and wants...
Director: Ivan Nagy Stars: Ted Raimi, Ricki Lake, David Warshofsky, Richard Schiff, Traci Lords
Plot / Synopsis: Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
Tagline: Is it a Nightmare? Or is it...
Director: J.S. Cardone Stars: Sarah Kendall, Frederick Flynn, Carol Kottenbrook, Alan McRae, Michael Holmes
Plot / Synopsis: A group of teenagers decide to take a vacation at the beach house of one of their fathers. The kid whose father owns the house just happened to accidentally kill his mother when he was a child. When they get to the house, the father has mysteriously disappeared. Hmmm...
Tagline: A vacation that became a nightmare...
Directors: Buddy Cooper, John Douglass Stars: Matt Mitler, Ruth Martinez, Bill Hitchcock, Connie Rogers, Frances Raines
Plot / Synopsis: A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.
Tagline: Close your eyes. Count to 10. And run for your life...
Director: Skip Schoolnik Stars: Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, George Thomas, Donna Baltron
Plot / Synopsis: An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Tagline: The Nightmare Becomes Reality...
Director: Umberto Lenzi Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani
Plot / Synopsis: Teenager Melissa moves into a small town filled with racial prejudice and bullying and each time she meets up with one of the boys in town, they end up murdered - but who is the killer?
Tagline: Why are all the boys dy**g to meet Melissa?...
Director: Jim Sotos Stars: Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg, Patrick Macnee, Don Stroud, Dana Kimmell
Plot / Synopsis: Julie is an advice columnist for the city newspaper who begins to receive anonymous notes threatening murder and worse. At about the same time, female members of the group therapy session she attends are being stabbed, one by one, by an unknown assailant. Is there a connection? If so, why do the notes talk about murder with a gun,...
Director: David Paulsen Stars: Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Richard Herd
Plot / Synopsis: A reimagining of Roger Corman's 1982 slasher film.
Based on the 1982 original, this remake follows Dana, and a group of her friends as they go on a trip to have a slumber party. But after some car trouble causes them to stay at a secluded cabin, their fun soon turns to terror as their night becomes a fight...
Director: Danishka Esterhazy Stars: Hannah Gonera, Frances Sholto-Douglas, Mila Rayne, Alex McGregor, Reze-Tiana Wessels
Plot / Synopsis: Eight friends go to fix up an old house that Mark has purchased. Upon arriving they find the grave of Annabelle (the former owner) in the back yard. She had killed her husband back in the 40's. Bob (one of Mark's friends) smashes the headstone and awakens Annabelle, this begins the carnage. But the dead don't stay dead and...
Director: James Riffel Stars: Mark Zobian, Victor Verhaeghe, Sarah Newhouse, Douglas Gibson, J.D. Cerna
Plot / Synopsis: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.Tagline: For seven elite profilers, finding a serial killer is a process of elimination. Their own...
Director: Renny Harlin Stars: Eion Bailey, Clifton Collins Jr., Will Kemp, Val Kilmer, Jonny Lee Miller
Plot / Synopsis: Joanne, Patty, Brian, and Craig prepare the old dorm building to be torn down. They are pursued by a serial killer with a wide range of murder methods, ranging from power drill to industrial steam cooker. Is it that spooky weird guy John Hemmit killing off the incidental characters, or is it someone/thing even more terrifying?
Tagline: A Crash...
Directors: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow Stars: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland, Dennis Ely
Plot / Synopsis: A girl is haunted by a phantom hearse, which she believes is connected to her departed aunt, a witch with a bad reputation in town.
Tagline: There is a door between life and death and now, that door is open!...
Director: George Bowers Stars: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton, Med Flory