It’s the Casablanca of carnage and the Gone with the Wind of Gore…A case could be made that Maniac is the greatest slasher film of all time. In the era when a killer’s motivations were as absent as their dialogue, Maniac takes you between the ears of maniac Frank Zito, closing the theatrical distance between audience andContinue reading “Maniac (1980)”
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 2
It might’ve been Leonard Maltin who wrote in his review of Silent Night, Deadly Night: “a killer Santa Claus? What’s next, the Easter bunny as a child molester?” So, we’re back in the mountains of Utah on Christmas, along with the J&B whiskey-swilling denizens of Ira’s toy store, Saint Mary’s Home for Orphaned Boys and of course, itsContinue reading “Silent Night, Deadly Night 2”
Really Awful Movies 