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Elijah Wood plays a disturbed young man who gives the mannequins in his story very lifelike touches in the remake of the cult classic Maniac. Wood, in a role unlike any he has ever undertaken, stars in Maniac, the new macabre masterpiece from the creator of the thrillers High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes. The film slashes its way onto Blu-ray and DVD from IFC Films on October 15, 2013.

In this 21st century Jack the Ripper story set in present-day Los Angeles, Frank (Elijah Wood) leads a deceptively peaceful life. To the outside world, he’s a withdrawn and somewhat eccentric owner of a mannequin store. But his quiet façade masks an inner rage that forces him to brutally kill and scalp the women who get too close to him.

When a young artist named Anna (Nora Arnezeder from Safe House) appears one day at Frank’s shop and asks for his help with her new exhibition, Frank develops an obsession with her that threatens to completely destroy his already fragile psyche. Soon the streets become unsafe for any woman after dark as this newly awakened maniac begins to stalk and kill.

A remake of William Lustig and Joe Spinell’s 1980 cult classic, Maniac, was written by Aja Alexandre, the screenwriter of The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension and Mirrors. The film is an intimate, psychologically complex and profoundly horrific trip into the downward spiraling nightmare of a killer and his victims.

Special features on the Maniac home video release will include: