It's a bit like watching an amputee play hopscotch: there's no way that it's polite to stare for this long, but you just have to see if this guy's gonna make it to the end.
– William Goss,
Film.com,
21 Jun 2013
rotten:
It's not clear what exactly merited an updating of William Lustig's 1980 "Maniac" - a cheapo urban grimeball about a serial killer - but like a rash's unwelcome return, we got it anyway.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jun 2013
rotten:
The sadistic proceedings here are pointless, and not very scary.