MANIAC

WILDERNESS

Original Title: BEAST

RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes.

After the shark adventure in WAVES (The Shallows) we are now in Africa.

Widower Elba and his two daughters are on safari to see some beautiful landscapes and everything that is walking around there.

But the fun begins when they meet a big angry Lion some reincarnation of Stephen King's Cujo.

What is removed in this film is the arrival of Elba and his family, in my version, he is already there, conversations about his past wife, and the grief the daughters still have about their mother.

That melodramatic shit is gone.

Some overlong dialogue in the walkie-talkie scenes is trimmed, and I used the same soundtrack of this film but re-scored /replaced it in other scenes.

I saw the movie in the theater, the special effects with the Lion are great although the ending was a little unrealistic.

WAVES

Original Title: THE SHALLOWS

RUNNING TIME: 55 minutes.

In this edit, I removed a lot of characters.

In the beginning, the driver and the boy are totally removed.

Blake Lively is surfing on a beach in Mexico and has some problems with a great white shark.

The introduction of the two surfers is much later and they have a small part in this edit.

The edit is now more focused on the battle between the shark and the woman.

Additional Music by Mark Isham and David Julyan.

WICK

Original Title: JOHN WICK / JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2.

RUNNING TIME: 130 minutes.

This is a TWO-in-ONE edition with an alternative storyline.
The wife of Wick and both dogs are completely cut and the trouble begins in this edit when they steal his car.

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VIOLENT NIGHT.

Original Title: KIDNAPPED (Secuestrados)

RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes.

Short edition of a Spanish horror-thriller.

Three assholes breaking in by a family in their new home.

The Father is taken to a bank machine far away from home to draw a lot of money.

That scene is trimmed in this edit and it stays most of the time by the Mother and Daughter.

The Mother and Daughter are terrorized by the other two.

The edit is re-scored with my usual composers.

Especially in the beginning, I removed some crap music and what we have now is an hour of terror, beatings, and rape.

All the scenes are filmed in one shot so it was difficult to edit but finally, I had what I wanted.

Subtitled.

VIOLENT RAPE

Original Title: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978)

RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes.

Keaton does a pretty good job on this and although I don't like skinny women her hairy bush is

outstanding.

The rape scenes are well executed, but the revenge scenes are cheap and laughable.

Overall, the movie is technically poor and the sequels of this movie are real trash.

The re-makes are much better but I already did that with SODOMY and SAVAGE VENGEANCE.

DTS 5.1 sound, the sodomy-rape scene is more graphic and extended with slow-motion effects and in his original ratio.

Music by Disasterpeace.

VIOLENT MISTRESS

Original Title: REVENGE (2017)

RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes.
(Subtitled)

Revenge was crazy, a beautiful shot with lots of colors and extremely bloody.
Reason enough to make a Maniac fan edit of this one.
In this edit, I use flashbacks in black and white, overdubs of Clouser, Stetson, and Banos.
By cutting much of the dialogue, and using sound effects with all kinds of editing tricks I turn this edit into a rollercoaster.

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ULTRA VIOLENCE

Original Title: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes.

A whole different edition from what you see in the original.

In a 2.40 widescreen ratio, all the classical music is gone, there is by Alex Delarge no admiring of Ludwig van Beethoven.

I always hated that fucking classical music, the parents of Delarge were some mentally unstable idiots to me and also very irritating in the movie, so these characters are completely cut as also some others.

In my version is Delarge a psychopath who gets his kicks of bizarre porn, sadistic violence, and rape.

Also that two of his companions are coming back as policemen as what you see in the original, is not in this cut. Totally unbelievable.

So the movie is entirely re-scored and Delarge is in my version actually a loner, who lives on his own with bizarre fantasies and goes on a hunt for some ultra-violence every night.

There is a lot of footage replaced, (his fantasies, and the cinema scenes)

After the Ludovico treatment, if you know the original film they release him.

Mentally unstable and confused he has to deal with a past victim of him.

Re-scores are done by Marco Beltrami and many others.

This edit has pornographic stuff and extremely violent scenes from other horror movies.

UNSANE

Original Title: TENEBRE

RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes.

Edition with some Goblin music overdubs / re-scores of other Argento movies.
This version is in a 2.40 ratio.

UNKNOWN GUEST

Original Title: OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes.

A nice horror of the eighties now in a short story of a man who has the deal with a big rat in his apartment.
The work of Bart Hughes (Weller) is far more on the background in this edit.
His family is completely removed.

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TRAPPED

Original Title: THE RAID REDEMPTION

RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes

Taken from a UHD Blu-ray edition with some re-scores among others by Tyler Bates, and Fesliyan studios.

The pregnant woman of Yuda is cut in this edit, no home family bullshit.

Scenes are edited in a different order, and some dialogue and stupid scenes are cut.

Subtitled.

THE WOLFMAN

Original Title: HOLD THE DARK

RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes.

It was a bizarre film, but I loved every minute of it.

I brought it back to 65 minutes because the original (120 minutes) has a very slow build-up.

The acting is outstanding, great camerawork and the violence is pretty extreme.

DTS-HD Sound.

THE WRATH

Original Title: BECKY - THE WRATH OF BECKY

RUNNING TIME: 117 Minutes.

Two-in-one edition of both movies.

I liked it, it has some humor and excellent effects.

Cut to one movie with some re-scores.

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TROGLODYTE

Original Title: BONE TOMAHAWK

RUNNING TIME: 73 minutes.

One of my favorite Westerns with some great horror effects.

However, the movie has some dragging scenes in it, time fillers which are removed in this edit.

Also cut in dialogue, and re-scored by Stephen McKeon, Brooke Blair, and Will Blair.

THE CHOSEN

Original Title: KNOCK AT THE CABIN

RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes.

A great film, I enjoyed it, but in this version, the flashbacks are removed.

We keep the story in the cabin, and unimportant dialogue is removed.

For example, there is no conversation as you see at the beginning of the original between Wen and Leonard.

I think the scene is now more threatening as the girl sees the four walk to the cabin.

Music is in some scenes re-scored, but I used the same soundtrack for that because it was outstanding, some music segments of The Newton Brothers.

TOY

Original Title: M3GAN

RUNNING TIME: 68 minutes.

Great horror which I saw in the theater.

It reminds me of the Child's Play movies and for me is M3GAN the little sister of Chucky.

A streamlined edition, some characters are removed, unimportant dialogue, and some melodramatic bullshit.

My M3GAN doesn't sing and has murderous tendencies if someone works against her.

Sound in DTS-HD.

THE LAST HALLOWEEN

Original Title: HALLOWEEN III - SEASON OF THE WITCH

RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes.

After finishing Halloween - The Last Stand I worked on this one: The Last Halloween.

Like Halloween - The Shape Returns is from the mind of Zagadka and as usual, we gonna do something different to this "Season of the Witch" from 1982.

Re-scores are done by Carpenter from Christine, Prince of Darkness, and others. I use a UHD 4K copy as the source.

ZAGADKA: A revisited version of Tommy Lee Wallace's Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Re-introduce and re-edit the film and eliminate the unnecessary areas that distract the viewer from

seeing its strengths: hammy acting, bad special effects, 'comical' parts that weren't even remotely funny, cringe-worthy scenes, and sloppy editing.

Re-scores with new music and sound effects.

Scarier, more serious, and more sinister.

TARGET

Original Title: WATCHER

RUNNING TIME: 63 minutes.

Watcher is great, it reminds me of Carpenter's "Someone is watching me" Brian de Palma's "Body Double" and it was fun to see the actress Maika Monroe again in this movie.

She was great in "It Follows" a movie I worked on years ago, a fan edit called The Following.

In this 63 minutes cut, there is a lot of dialogue removed, scenes with the female neighbor of Monroe, and a lot of re-scores by John Carpenter, Pino Donaggio and Disasterpeace.

THE GRABBER

Original Title: THE BLACK PHONE

RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes.

Also one I saw in the theater, it was great but the abduction

of the boy and when he is locked up in the cellar with these phone conversations was a little too long.

I trimmed all phone conversations, the boy Finney remembers everyone he has on the phone of the Crabber's previous victims, and that was a little too much for me.

So in this edit, it stays unclear who is on the phone.

Music used from the same soundtrack by Mark Korven.

THE BETRAYAL

Original Title: BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR

RUNNING TIME: 180 minutes

Brand New Cherry Flavor was outstanding.

It has humor, bizarre shit, and great special effects.

The acting was great, I loved Catherine Keener as the Witch, and also Rosa Salazar and Eric Lange did a perfect job in this series.

I edit 8 episodes to one cut with the usual re-scores in it.

I made the edit in 2.40 widescreen, DTS surround.

THE CURSE

Original Title: THE WITCH

RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes

A request to do something with this movie.

The edit is done with flashbacks, nightmares, and scenes in a different order.

It is done in his original ratio, with re-scores by Trevor Gureckis and Rogue Banos.

Sound effects by Goblin and Pixabay.

DTS surround.

THE ROAD TO REVENGE

Original Title: THE NIGHTINGALE

RUNNING TIME: 78 minutes.

A request to do this movie.

I saw it a few weeks earlier, and I disliked the 4.3 ratio, so to begin with I changed that to 1.85.1 widescreen.

Strong acting, although the rape scenes are for me personally on a very low level so with sound effects, and flashbacks, I created a nightmarish effect to the violence in the movie.

Almost NO music in the original cut, so with a lot of my usual composers I made a whole different cut from what you see in the original.

There is no singing by Aisling Franciosi and some weird stuff is also gone.

THE STRANGER

Original Title: EYES OF A STRANGER

RUNNING TIME: 61 Minutes.

One of my favorites, a slasher from the '80s with brief makeup effects by Tom Savini.

Cut to 61 minutes, I removed some unbelievable crap, and Lauren Tewes her friend the lawyer is totally cut.

A remake, it was first released years ago in a double feature and that was from DVD, now this version is from Blu-ray.

THE CARETAKER

Original Title: THE BURNING

RUNNING TIME: 63 Minutes.

The Burning is one of my favorites, I think it's even better than FRIDAY THE 13th, but the burn accident with Cropsy was for me a failure.

Mainly because of the fire suit the stuntman wears when Cropsy runs out of the cabin.

That crap is cut from the print.

The burn accident is re-cut as a flashback in the edit.

The music of Rick Wakeman was fine but messy in some scenes.

So I did some re-scores with the music of Tyler Bates.

The killing of the hooker is completely re-scored with other music.

Streamlined, modified and the stereo soundtrack is converted to 5.1 sound.

So the complete final edit is done in a DTS-HD sound.

THE WOMAN ON THE TRAIN

Original Title: THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes.

After our adventures with Hannibal and Jigsaw, this is the next one coming from the mind of ZAGADKA.

He asked me if I was interested in making this and although I know the movie I saw it a few weeks ago on the big projection screen to give me some reminder of how the original story is.

The man has great ideas, so let's do it.

Not really in my alley, BUT I like the movie and the actress Emily Blunt so I think we can make something special about this movie.

ZAGADKA: The aim is to tell the story from Rachel’s (Emily Blunt) perspective

only. Also, a few clunky bits of dialog and exposition ruined the atmosphere and mystery about the killer’s identity.

With a tighter running time and the removal of the cringeworthy scenes, there’s an actually

good and dark thriller hidden under some melodrama trash.

THE HEWITT FAMILY

Original Title: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - THE BEGINNING / THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2006 - 2003)

RUNNING TIME: 126 MINUTES

This two-in-one edition is done in 2.40 widescreen, DTS 7.1

I used some black-and-white stuff, some re-scores by Tyler Bates, and in collaboration with Zagadka, I put some of his ideas in this new edit.

Some beautiful covers are made by the Sister of Zagadka.

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