
Maniac
1980 · MovieFrank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.
Reality is unreliable. Memory is worse. Curated psychological horror lives in that gap, films built on paranoia, fractured perception, and dread that has no clean source. No monster required. The mind does enough damage on its own.

Frank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.

A family moves into a Devon manor house with a complicated history. The children start experiencing things they can't explain.

The most celebrated directors in horror each take a full hour to make exactly the kind of horror film they want, with no restrictions and no compromises.

Evelyn inherits a mountain chalet from her father and arrives to find herself caught in a relentless blizzard. The silence inside is louder than the storm.

A young priest arrives on a dying island community with what looks like a miracle. What he's actually brought with him is something the island isn't prepared for.

Dani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.

Ed Gein was a quiet Wisconsin farmer and handyman whose crimes in the 1950s were so disturbing they became the blueprint for Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface.

A poet and his wife live in an isolated house she has been rebuilding. A series of uninvited guests disrupts the domestic order and the disruption escalates.

Tom returns to Harmony after a decade away and gets caught in the middle of a new series of killings at the local mine on Valentine's Day.

Rachel Yoder is a new mother feeling disconnected from domesticity when something begins changing about her at night.

OJ and Emerald Haywood run a horse ranch in Agua Dulce and find that something in the clouds above their property has been taking an interest in movement below.

Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. The consequences follow him home to Wisborg and his wife Ellen.

Two people's dynamic has moved past what either of them can manage. The film documents the escalation with an interest in the psychology of fixation rather than the mechanics of violence.

Marlene is a backpacker traveling alone who finds a cheap room to spend the night. What she finds in that room stays with her.

Six friends jump from a yacht for a swim and realize too late that nobody lowered the ladder. The boat drifts away.

Kate and John Coleman adopt a nine-year-old girl from a Russian orphanage and bring her home. Esther is not what she appears to be.

Young Michael Laemle suspects his parents' 1950s suburban normalcy is a cover for something much darker. The leftovers are the clue.

Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother and a husband she didn't choose, and desires the world has no room for.

Run a PSX-style photo studio, restock supplies, photograph customers, print their orders. The unexpected events are the horror.

Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.
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