Maniac (1980) Horror Thriller Drama Crime

Maniac (1980) Movie Release Dates / Movie Details

Updated: September 14, 2024

Maniac Plot Synopsis:

Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D'Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe?

Synopsis / Plot Summary: A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Tagline: Run from this man!

Maniac Movie Information:

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