Elijah Wood Confirms Maniac is Entirely POV

The Sundance Film Festival has been taking place and we've had a number of horror items coming out of the event. Elijah Wood was at the festival and talked a bit about his upcoming role as a serial killer in the remake of Maniac:

"[It's] entirely in POV... You only ever see me in reflections and occasionally there are out-of-body experiences where you see more of me."

"I normally don't love the notion of remakes... I've said that I'm averse to it, especially in horror films. But the approach was so different and so unique that I was really intrigued. It was fun."

Maniac is being directed by Franck Khalfoun (P2) and is produced by Alexandre Aja. Elijah Wood is playing the role of a “a serial killer who works at a shop that sells antique mannequins. He finds victims on the Internet and stalks them like prey, all the while suffering from hallucinations that throw him back into the past, when he was abused by his own mother.”

The original film was directed by William Lustig in 1980: “MANIAC stars Joe Spinell (ROCKY, THE GODFATHER, TAXI DRIVER) as Frank Zito, a deeply disturbed man haunted by the traumas of unspeakable childhood abuse. When these horrific memories begin to scream inside his mind, Frank prowls the seedy streets of New York City to stalk and slaughter innocent young women. Even as he begins a relationship with a beautiful photographer (Caroline Munro of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME), Frank continues to act on his vile compulsions. The film holds nothing back in depicting the atrocities of a human monster.”