In the last decade there has been a veritable monsoon of
horror movie remakes, and while familiar names both large and small underwent
the 're-imagining' process (to widely varying degrees of success),
William Lustig's notoriously nasty Maniac (1980), slid under the
radar – until now.
“Leave her alone!” Written and produced by
Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur (worthwhile remakes of The Hills Have
Eyes in 2006, and Piranha in 2010), with Lustig on-board, and
Franck Khalfoun (the utterly dreadful and menace-free P2) in the
Director's chair, it was a real toss-up how this one could turn out. Would it
be a pointless exercise in thoughtless money-making (akin to A Nightmare
on Elm Street 2010), or would it be a fresh and worthy new spin on
familiar material that is held dear as a dark and sinister example of the
slasher genre at its best?
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