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Title: HOW IT ALL STARTED
Review: If there were no Maniac there would possibly be no slashers that we know and love today. The whole genre started after this one. And I mean not those stupid kill-them-all flicks but serious thrillers that try to penetrate murderer's mind and also to play some of your own strings. Joe Spinell is brilliant, Tom Savini's effects are very good especially for that time (after scalping and head-shot scenes you'll want to rewind and see how it was done). And it's the atmosphere that will leave you meditative for the rest of the day (or night). It's so claustrophobic and sociopathic you'll actually feel yourself in maniac's skin by the end.Also there's a very good documentary on Joe Spinell in this DVD edition.
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