i just watched the remake of maniac and i loved it. i think elijah wood was excellent as frank - as soon as i heard it would be him in the title role, i reflected back to sin city (as i’m sure many people did) and found him to be so chilling as kevin. i especially loved the first promotional image i saw from the remake which showed elijah wood standing in the same pose with the scalp and the knife from the poster of the original maniac. i kept noticing the theme of inanimate objects being brought to life through derangement and art - annie’s photographs, franks hallucinations and going as far as a video that showed the making of the music of maniac where composer, Rob, spoke about how all the sounds in the music of the movie are synthetic and how they pushed the audio so far that those sounds became almost organic. definitely worth checking out - the almost entirely point of view cinematography sounded strange to me before i saw the film but now thinking back on it, i could not imagine it being seen another way.