The script's probings into the roots of his psychosis are a bit shallow, but Spinell was a criminally underrated actor and carried much of the movie on his back.

An unapologetically twisted study in pathological murderousness.

Good sense, if not heaven, should protect anyone who thinks he likes horror films from wasting a price of admission on Maniac.

Horror doesn't get sleazier, slimier, or sweatier than this, in all of the best ways.