Movies: Maniac

A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer....

As a child, Ed was cleaning his father’s hunting rifles - a surprise birthday treat for the old man - when one of them went off, hitting and killing his mother. On seeing the bloodshed, his father flew into a murderous rage - Ed just barely escaped w...

Hoping to fix their dysfunctional marriage, a couple travels to an isolated mountain cabin to work out their problems - but the one problem they didn't anticipate is the maniac trying to kill them....

A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings ...

An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him....

Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the kille...

After a masked maniac starts taking lives, a small town sheriff struggles to keep his sanity while hunting down the animal that is killing off the people he loves....

A delinquent brother reads his kid sister two bedtime stories after injecting himself with herion. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest....

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him....

During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone....

During the winter season, a family camping in the woods, and a group of camp counselors training in the same forest both find themselves being killed one by one by an unhinged psycho....

Eventually, everyone visits the coroner. But City Coroner Dr. Leon Uraski isn't content with waiting for you to die. He's coming for you now!...

A gymnasium, a country town unhealthy like most of the people who live there... and terrible sex crimes. While everyone minds his own business a dangerous maniac kills all the women who unluckily meet with him. It is not simple to identify the killer...

College student Ali Hooper and her little brother are attacked by a masked maniac, and the key to them surviving the night lies in unlocking a secret from the killer's past....

Two couples – Mike (Jerry Albert) and Jeri (Celea Ann Cole), Daniel (Kenny Miller) and Kim (Toni Crabtree) – go out to a hunting lodge that Mike inherited from his father and find the locals a little less than welcoming…....

The Joe Spinell Story is a An outstanding and eye-opening documentary, made in 2001 for the Anchor Bay DVD release of Maniac (1980). His most notable roles were as mafioso Willi Cicci in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, and as loan shark Tony...

An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer....

A patient escapes from a lunatic asylum and encounters a woman being pursued by a seemingly indestructible maniacal goon employed by a mysterious mobster. He decides to help her, but nothing is what it seems. Not even the past....

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania over...

An escaped religious fanatic Jason Fry, goes on a killing spree after those he believes to be sinners. Dr. Landers, his former shrink is the only one who can stop him. Fry's got a list and he's checking it twice for those naughty not nice!...