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MANIAC starts Friday: Star Elijah Wood in Person Fri-Sat at 9:20pm Shows, Plus Poster Giveaway
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jun 20, 2013, 15:42
MANIAC, Elijah Wood, IFC Center
"Four stars! Franck Khalfoun's giddily gory remake of [William] Lustig's
grindhouse cult item turns the City of Angels into a kind of postapocalyptic
dreamscape, with our scalp-slashing antihero, Frank (Wood, nicely cast against
type), stalking his female prey in the first person... suffused with a strangely
surreal empathy for both murderer and victim that recalls Jonathan Demme's genre-redefining
The Silence of the Lambs." - Time Out New York
A smart and stylish re-boot of William Lustig's slasher cult classic, the new
MANIAC is an intimate, daring and profoundly terrifying trip into the downward
spiraling nightmare of a murderer and his victims. Frank (an intense, unnerving
Elijah Wood) is a withdrawn mannequin store owner whose life changes when a
young woman appears asking for his help. As their friendship develops and Frank's
obsession escalates, it becomes clear that his long-repressed compulsion to
stalk and kill has been unleashed. Plus a limited number of free posters at
the Friday & Saturday 9:20 shows, while supplies last!
Friday and Saturday: 11:05am, 3:05pm, 7:15, 9:20pm, 12:15am
Sunday-Tuesday: 11:05am, 3:15pm, 7:15pm
Resources:
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/maniac/
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