Overview: A malevolent religious cult stalks a French village, kidnapping prostitutes and subjecting them to unimaginable torments under the guise of saving their souls.

When a young man’s girlfriend is taken by the sect, he teams up with a mob of angry pimps to track down the maniacal, holy rolling killers and put an end to their bloody mission, once and for all.

A tense, stylish thriller from the legendary French studio that brought you ZOMBIE LAKE and PANTHER SQUAD and directed by the man behind the notorious BURIAL GROUND, MANIA KILLER stars exploitation movie heavyweights Bo Svenson (WALKING TALL PART 2), Robert Ginty (THE EXTERMINATOR) and Chuck Connors (TOURIST TRAP).

Full Moon is excited to be presenting this obscure shocker totally uncut and remastered from the best available materials found in the Eurocine vaults.

Blu-ray Verdict: Taking it from the top, Mania Killer is a typically surreal Eurociné production which features barely any gore. I say this immediately, just in case you were hoping director Bianchi would repeat his excellent blood feast from Burial Ground.

But what you do get, for better or for worse, there is an extremely unconvincing shootout, where everyone seems to get shot in the the stomach (most convenient place to strap on a squib, I guess) and a lot of fists to the face.

Oh, and Robert Ginty (the Exterminator) crushes a glass in his hand which makes him the most Evil kind of man, of course. There is also a shaky hand-held shot of the Eiffel tower, which seems a little out of place, but overall (for me) it is the village idiot reminiscent of Bob in City of the Living Dead that takes the biscuit, as they say.

All that said, Mania Killer (which a lot of people refer to and even write as Maniac Killer) is a great ’80s blast of a B-movie and plays out just perfectly for late night viewing.

It is, simply put, the story of a weird cult that kidnaps prostitutes in a small French village, and tortures inquisition style in order to purify their souls.

But soon the local pimp and others seek revenge and go in search of all connected with these acts in their village, but varying results! Oh, and it also includes a scientist from California that uses the aforementioned village idiot to capture small animals to experiment on them!

In closing, Mania Killer is as low on any real action as Gianni Martucci’s The Red Monks, but containing a wondrous level of a certain weirdness that these films kinda lacked back then, Mania Killer enables itself to climb head and shoulders above a lot of other movies of its era due to this quirk. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.