Maniac
"maniac" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Terrifier
Synopsis:
On Halloween night, a young woman finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown.
Starring:
Jenna Kanell,
David Howard Thornton,
Samantha Scaffidi
Plot:
clown,
halloween,
gore,
slasher,
maniac,
killer clown,
evil clown,
blood,
brutality,
gory violence
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#2
The Tudors
Synopsis:
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Starring:
Henry Cavill,
David O'Hara,
Tamzin Merchant
Plot:
england,
monarchy,
royal family,
tudor,
anne boleyn,
sex scene,
king,
royalty,
king henry viii,
english court
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#3
Beau Is Afraid
Synopsis:
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
Starring:
Richard Kind,
Denis Ménochet,
Nathan Lane
#4
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Synopsis:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Christopher Lloyd,
Charles Fleischer
#5
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Synopsis:
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Starring:
Wesley Addy,
Bette Davis,
Victor Buono
#6
The Warriors
Synopsis:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Starring:
Brian Tyler,
James Remar,
David Patrick Kelly
Plot:
new york city,
street gang,
disc jockey,
warrior,
truce,
social decay,
sociopath,
threatened with a knife,
fugitive,
survival
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#7
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Synopsis:
When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must…
Starring:
Marilyn Burns,
Allen Danziger,
Paul A. Partain
Plot:
leatherface,
cannibal,
chainsaw,
rural setting,
american horror,
hitchhiker,
texas,
cannibalism,
independent film,
summer
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#8
The Silence of the Lambs
Synopsis:
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Starring:
Anthony Heald,
Tracey Walter,
Anthony Hopkins
#9
The Omega Man
Synopsis:
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Starring:
Charlton Heston,
Anthony Zerbe,
Brian Tochi
Plot:
plague,
post apocalypse,
based on novel,
global pandemic,
antidote,
albino,
dystopia,
mutant,
survival,
last man on earth
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#10
The Night of the Hunter
Synopsis:
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Starring:
Shelley Winters,
Peter Graves,
James Gleason
Plot:
widow,
preacher,
southern gothic,
spanking,
psychopath,
cult film,
money,
doll,
death,
promise
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#11
The Last House on the Left
Synopsis:
Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.
Starring:
Jeramie Rain,
Sandra Peabody,
Lucy Grantham
#12
The Invisible Man
Synopsis:
Working in Dr. Cranley’s laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley’s daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion’s Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, m…
Starring:
Gloria Stuart,
Claude Rains,
Henry Travers
#13
The Haunting
Synopsis:
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Starring:
Lois Maxwell,
Richard Johnson,
Julie Harris
Plot:
haunted house,
gothic horror,
parapsychology,
lesbianism,
19th century,
mansion,
research,
psychic,
gothic,
library
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#14
The Great Mouse Detective
Synopsis:
When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.
Starring:
Val Bettin,
Vincent Price,
Candy Candido
#15
The Frighteners
Synopsis:
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the…
Starring:
Troy Evans,
Michael J. Fox,
Jake Busey
Plot:
ghost,
black comedy,
serial killer,
supernatural horror,
grim reaper,
hell,
haunted house,
car,
architect,
talking to a ghost
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#16
The Dead Zone
Synopsis:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Starring:
Tom Skerritt,
Nicholas Campbell,
Christopher Walken
#17
The Crazies
Synopsis:
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Starring:
Richard France,
Lynn Lowry,
Lane Carroll
#18
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Synopsis:
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Starring:
Horst Frank,
Karl Malden,
James Franciscus
#19
The Cable Guy
Synopsis:
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
Starring:
Leslie Mann,
Ben Stiller,
Jim Carrey
Plot:
television,
obsession,
revenge,
friendship,
hostage,
kidnapping,
stalking,
police,
younger version of character,
kiss
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#20
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Synopsis:
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Starring:
Tony Musante,
Enrico Maria Salerno,
Suzy Kendall