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Post by gorepolice on Oct 16, 2013 22:28:24 GMT -5
Joe Spinell is a creepy mofo as well.
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Post by NDX on Oct 16, 2013 22:41:27 GMT -5
He really was. He made a great greaseball in Rocky.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 16, 2013 22:45:04 GMT -5
Shame he died so young. The guy really couldn't get over losing his mother and everything just spiraled downward from there.
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Post by endo on Oct 16, 2013 22:50:34 GMT -5
Reading his Wiki page, he came to a rough end. Drug and alcohol abuse, and then slipping and cutting himself on his shower door and falling asleep instead of calling for help. That's never good.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 16, 2013 23:20:02 GMT -5
Not at all. The guy loved his mother so much that he couldn't be without her. He always partied and such, but it got out of control when he was alone. That was his way of coping, and it got the best of him in the end.
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Post by endo on Oct 16, 2013 23:22:34 GMT -5
I'd be lost without my wife so I can relate in a way. 52 he was, I think. That's too young to die. Poor guy.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 16, 2013 23:25:16 GMT -5
Yeah. He still had a lot of years ahead of him. Maybe if he had a wife, things would've turned out different for him.
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Post by kicktothehead on Oct 17, 2013 13:35:43 GMT -5
That's sad as fak... poor guy.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 20, 2013 0:46:09 GMT -5
Yeah, we lost a great guy. He was also working on Maniac 2: Mr. Robbie, but unfortunately all we have of that is 8 minutes of footage. I would've liked to see how that turned out.
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Post by DeathByApocalypse on Oct 29, 2013 10:30:41 GMT -5
Just watched this on Netflix, wow some real terror here, Woods did so well in this, I got a new respect for him as an actor.
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Post by NDX on Oct 29, 2013 13:52:52 GMT -5
Gotta agree on the Woods note. I did not believe he had it in him. He needs to work more independent roles like this.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 30, 2013 16:38:00 GMT -5
The POV really made it stand out. He had to use his voice to convey everything, and he knocked it out of the park.
I think Woods worked because you look at him and just see a regular guy. He's someone you'd never suspect as being such a vicious, deranged killer. That makes it all the more believable that he'd be invited to places and get in the good graces of his victims.
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Post by DeathByApocalypse on Oct 31, 2013 1:11:23 GMT -5
Yeah, and to me that is the terrifying part, I feel like I committed those crimes..scary...
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Post by NDX on Oct 31, 2013 6:05:32 GMT -5
Yeah. That added element, especially when seeing it in the theater, just made it all the more powerful. Saw the first 2 deaths coming since they were posted here and they still get to me.
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Post by occupant on Nov 5, 2013 17:10:42 GMT -5
Wanted to see what all the hubbub was about so I just finished watching it on Netflix. First off, I would never have thought of Elijah Wood for a role like that, seemed to me like weird casting, but what a hellofa job he did with the part! Didn't even seem like a "horror" movie at all - more like an intimate case study into the mind of a man descending deeper and deeper into madness.
I must confess, I'm not as into the gory slasher type films and prefer my thrills and chills to come from well written and acted supernatural movies (although I make an exception for zombie movies - I mean hell, who doesn't like a good zombie kill right?) but while the violence in Maniac was in your face, it didn't seem gratuitous, it was necessary - does that make any sense?
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