Franck Khalfoun presents a slasher film with a twist by shooting the entire movie from the killer's point of view.

Frodo go loco! Elijah Wood plays the title role in “Maniac,” a pervy LA photographer with mommy issues who likes to follow random women around or arrange to...

Its audio-visual overload testifies to a group of filmmakers’ belief that some films are made to be remade.

Somewhere deep within noble, valiant, hairy-footed Frodo Baggins, or rather the actor who portrays him, lies the soul of a serial killer. When he’s not bearing rings or slaying Orcs in Peter Jackson’s adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” or “The Hobbit,” Elijah Wood has taken on such villainous roles as Kevin, the ghoulish nerd who enjoys eating people in Robert Rodriguez’s “Sin City” (2005), or Frank Zito, the creep who kills women and attaches their scalps to mannequins in Franck Khalfoun’s remake of William Lustig’s notorious 1980 slasher flick, “Maniac.”

Review: 'Maniac' remake ventures into dumb misogyny land, and the question is, why?

As trashy, pointless slice-and-dicers go, a grotesque chamber of horrors called Maniac has arty production values and features a creepy but sincere central performance by Elijah Wood (best known as Frodo in the Lord of the Rings cycle).

A teen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest filmed like The Idiots (on DV, vérité-style), Manic confidently establishes its own tone and milieu through a calmly just

Director Franck Khalfoun pushes us to empathize with — or at least consider — the perspective of a serial killer in Maniac, a slasher reboot shot almost exclusively from the murderer's POV.