Brutal and amazing movie

I hadn't heard this story before! Awesome video!! 🤘🏼

So I've watched a couple of your videos the other day and I gotta say your channel is a gem for a horror fan! Love your content

I'm quite happy I found your channel. Horror movies, horror comics, old school slashers - great stuff, man! Cheers

🤘🏼🔥🔥great video!

Its 45 years filmed in new York City

If you didn't know it sounds like they based it a little off of Freddie Freaker! One of my all time favorite 80's call line commercial mascots! I was recommended the movie as my username on a lot of things is Freddie Freaker! If you watch the commercial the puppetry is very stilted so that might be why they chose to do that! Great video!

Heck yeah man just subscribed

Now I got Maniac from Flashdance stuck in my head.😈

Love or hate this kind of movie, it was great to see a fascinating performer like Joe Spinnel lead in a film. He had always stood out in smaller rolls, too much presence to just fade into the background. I found the blue underground documentary on him to be of even more interest than this movie. Although every time has it's greats I don't really feel that we currently have performers of this fascinating caliber who could take a part large or small, big budget or Z grade and give the same quality. RIP Mr Spinnel,much respect.

Hey, I think I remember that contraption. I was living in Manhattan in 1976 and I remember stopping outside a Broadway movie theater not far from Times Square one afternoon. But I think the movie they were showing was “The Hills Have Eyes.” Needless to say I didn’t go in, but I distinctly remember the circumstances.

OK. But yet Roger Ebert gave Calligula rave reviews. SMH

Siskel and Ebert were hard on a lot of horror movies, even the more tame ones like Friday the 13th, calling them “misogynistic”. I never understood that. The men in those films definitely have the worst deaths and there is always a ‘final girl’ to take on Jason.

Better times

The only critics worth talking about as well listening to are the Blue Oyster Cult members who were indeed that very same group of people who abhorred every type of music that was around in those days. So whadda they do, but formed their own band and an interestingly psychological/ psychedelics Rock and Roll band at that. Gene Siskel should get a horrific disease. Whoops ( Sorry about that one)☝️ however that’s my opinion on anyone who is in a position of power in which most idiots would listen to a.k.a- Washington Wives and Al Gore too! Great review

The only critics worth talking about as well listening to are the Blue Oyster Cult members who were indeed that very same group of people who abhorred every type of music that was around in those days. So whadda they do, but formed their own band and an interestingly psychological/ psychedelics Rock and Roll band at that. Gene Siskel should get a horrific disease. Whoops ( Sorry about that one)☝️ however that’s my opinion on anyone who is in a position of power in which most idiots would listen to a.k.a- Washington Wives and Al Gore too! Great review

No offense to our American cousins but how is it horror movies are popular stateside when you've had hundreds of serial killers thrill killers Mafia killers ect Anybody would think having a country with a lot of murderer's roaming about it'd put people off being entertained by slasher movies ???

I never like those 2 movie review . You can tell the more conservative at their review . Anything that has horror and slasher they trash it but praise a movie of couple talking in restaurants all the run time . I thought movie reviews suppose to be bias .

Dude, nice goddamn work with this video. Well fucking done.

Maniac holds no 3 in my top 5 movies of all time. Funny thing is, I'm an older guy, grew up in VHS stores, but never saw Maniac until around 2003 or so. Holy s**t. Was blown away. The score is 50% of the viewing experience for me. Great video.🎃

great recommendations! i been meaning to check out possession and the collector! rumplestiltskin is classic

Spinell died in his apartment located off Greenpoint Avenue in Sunnyside, Queens, New York on January 13, 1989, at the age 52. Sometime during that morning, he cut himself badly on his glass shower stall door after apparently slipping in the bathtub while showering. Soon afterward he fell asleep on his living room couch instead of calling for help, and his hemophilia caused him to bleed to death.Spinell was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens near his home.

Saw it when I was a kid. Still not right.

Yeah this one ruffled Gene and Rogers vaginas. I remember as a kid.

They remade this in 2012 you know .

Maniac is my favorite horror film. It’s a shame Siskel and ebert didn’t like it, but they were not really great horror critics. I do think though in the 90s they brought a lot of attention to a lot of great films that may have gone unnoticed if they weren’t around, so I have a lot of respect t for them for that. Like bad lieutenant for example they gave high praise to, and that’s an nc-17 film

Gene, you old stick in the mud

Damn, this is great stuff. I got a lot of insight from this piece.

44 years 😅 RIP Joe, Roger and Gene 😢 🙏🙏🙏

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Any movie with Tom Savini in front of or behind the camera is a winner for me.

Very well done review. Hey if you de-age the movie and me 10 years it's all good. The Tom Savini shrimp cocktail head scene is still what modern horror makers still can't master today. Tom is the man,and I fortunately grew up watching his craft in person.

I love this comic, the story and the narrative make you empathize with the cannibal mutants in a certain way... My favorite pages are the ones with the two female soldiers, Bishop and Jones, and then where the mutant Blair has them in the background, extracting information from them... I would have liked to see the process and everything, but oh well.

NB: It's been nearly 45 years since Maniac came out, not 35.

This seems more like a beat down, not a showdown 😂

such a good quality video, you definitely deserve a larger audience keep it up, rooting for you!

Think you'll ever do Spider-Man 3 vs The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Those tend to be compared.

Great!! #RestoreTheSnyderverse

I watched it on MGM+ and it's great better writing than most movies of 24 so far the "fuck dog" was funny as hell kids where hustling it😊

Great video, Junkhead. I really appreciate your exploration of the characters. I’ve never heard of this, but your engagement makes me curious. Keep up the good work!

saw it an thought it wwas pretty great. felt liek a john hughes flick set in the 90's

No Idea why you got recommended after a Papa Meat video but i was in for the ride!

I remember it being unsettling to look at. Don't forget the THINK! "Hit me at 30 mph" one, that was a special kind of creepy: photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3118/2319/1600/09037.1.jpg

Love this series you have! Carrie is a classic but WASC is so nostalgic. Do you have. Theme for these showdowns or are they mixed and match remakes? I’d love to suggest horror films!

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Great review!

Thank you for this review!

I love your ideas for the film

hey man, thanks for the review! some solid insights here

Love the idea of the channel, keep it up man!