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''Maniac'' is a 1980 American exploitation slasher film directed by William Lustig and written by Joe Spinell and C. A. Rosenberg. The plot focuses on a disturbed and traumatized serial killer who scalps his victims. Spinell also developed the story and stars as the lead character. With a minuscule budget, many scenes in the film were shot guerrilla style. Originally considered an exploitation film, ''Maniac'' has since attained cult status. ''The Hollywood Reporter'' called it "something of a grubby touchstone among genre fans." The film was remade in 2012 by director Franck Khalfoun and produced by Alexandre Aja, starring Elijah Wood in the lead role. ==Plot== The film starts with a young couple lying on a beach, unaware that they are being watched by an unseen person. The woman asks the man to get some firewood, and as he leaves, the unseen man approaches the woman and slits her throat with a utility razor. The man returns to the campfire and is attacked from behind. The killer wraps wire around the man's neck and pulls, killing him. Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) then sits up in his bed in sweat, screaming after having a nightmare. He lives in a small, one-room apartment that is full of bizarre paintings, artwork and a framed picture of a woman decorated with candles and trinkets. Frank also owns a collection mannequins, one of which is wearing the beach girl's clothes and bloody scalp. Frank puts on a heavy winter coat and gloves and leaves the apartment. Somewhere in downtown Manhattan, Frank passes by a seedy hotel where two prostitutes are standing outside. One asks him if he would like a date. The two go inside and Frank checks into a room. After she dances, the hooker and Frank kiss, where Frank suddenly becomes angry and begins choking her until she is dead. He gets queasy and throws up in the nearby bathroom. Later Frank slowly scalps the woman with his utility razor. Frank returns home with the body, intending to add to his mannequin collection. He puts the hooker's bloody clothes on to the mannequin and nails the scalp to the mannequin's head while hearing a voice telling him that beauty is a crime punishable by death. Frank pauses and looks at a newspaper headline detailing about the murdered couple at the beach. Sometime later, Frank dresses up to go out again, this time as a hunter. He disassembles a double-barrelled shotgun in a violin case, with the ammunition and his utility razor, along with a machete, an Italian switchblade and an Argentinian bayonet, shortly before leaving. Driving around the nighttime Brooklyn and the Queens area, Frank spots a couple outside a local disco getting into a car and driving off. The man (Tom Savini) and woman park in a lot beside the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano Bridge. The woman wants to go home, but her pick-up date refuses. Frank arrives near the couple's car and begins to spy on them. The disco woman sees Frank by the car window and notifies the disco man to drive her home. The man starts the car and turns on the headlights, only to see Frank is standing right in front of them and murders the couple with his shotgun. Later, Frank is back in his room with a new mannequin in the disco woman's clothing as he watches a TV news report about the double murder. Soon, Frank begins talking to himself and the other mannequins, as he whimpers and moans himself to sleep. In Central Park the next day, Frank is walking around when he stops a little girl riding on a bicycle who almost rides into him. He sees Anna (Caroline Munro) in the distance snapping a photo of him and follows her. Later that night, two nurses are leaving the Roosevelt Hospital. One of the nurses is picked up by her boyfriend, leaving the other nurse alone outside the hospital. Frank begins to follow the nurse, but she notices him and walks into a nearby subway station. She gets through the gate, but a train leaves without her. Seeing Frank approaching, she runs and into a nearby restroom and hides in a stall. The nurse then walks to a sink, only to have Frank murderer her with his bayonet. Frank now returns with another mannequin resembling the nurse as he decorates up the figure. Some days later, Anna is in her darkroom of her apartment developing the photographs she took of Frank when the doorbell rings. She opens the door to Frank, who tells her that he's the man she took the photograph of. Anna lets him in and they begin to discuss Anna's work as a photographer. He notes that all her models are women, and she tells him that she hopes to sell some of her photographs of the models. Frank tells her that she should keep them to preserve their beauty. Frank asks Anna out to dinner, and she accepts. During dinner, Frank shows Anna a photo of his mother in which he tells her that he and his mother lived in Queens until she died several years ago in an automobile accident. Frank asks Anna if she would like to go out with him again and she invites him to an art gallery on Thursday. A few days later, Frank arrives at a studio where Anna is taking photos of three models at a photography session. During a break, Frank gives Anna a stuffed bear as a gift and she introduces him to one of the models named Rita. Anna and Rita go back to shooting, and Frank eyes the two women casually talking and holding hands together. Frank impulsively steals a gold necklace that Rita set aside and leaves. Later that evening, Rita arrives home at her apartment, and begins to run water to take a bath. Frank arrives and gives Rita her necklace. With Rita distracted for a second, Frank slyly pushes in the door's lock, and leaves. Rita goes into the bathroom to take her bath. Later, Rita is grabbed by Frank who jumps out of a closet and finds herself gagged and tied to her bed. Frank begins talking, where he addresses her as his mother, declares his undying love for her, and ultimately stabs her to death with his switchblade. Frank scalps her, adding her scalp to his collection and later disposes of it, eventually attending Rita's funeral with Anna. Some days later, Frank calls Anna and invites her to a show and picks her up. Frank drives Anna to a cemetery and says that he wants to put a wreath of flowers on his mother's grave. At the cemetery, Frank lays the wreath beside the headstone of his mother. Frank mourns over one of his early victims, and abruptly grabs Anna by her neck. As Frank stops to look around, Anna wounds him with a nearby shovel and runs. Frank returns to his mother's grave, hallucinating about his deceased mother grabbing him. Frank goes home to his apartment, saddened about his mother. The mannequins suddenly come alive and mutilate Frank, ultimately beheading him. Early the next morning, two police officers arrive and burst into Frank's apartment. They find the body of Frank on his bed, apparently having committed suicide. As the officers leave, Frank's eyes suddenly open as the film ends with the title printed onto the screen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maniac (1980 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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