Maniac (1980) (V2 RM4k BU 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 7.1 Co...

Maniac  (1980), directed by William Lustig, V2 Blue Underground 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 7.1 remaster, original theatrical stereo, three commentary tracks, and subtitles in fifteen languages.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081114/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : The exploitation film meets the slasher in this ultra-gritty low budget film from Raging Bull's nephew, superfan of the word "Maniac", and sometime Dario Argento location manager William Lustig, which has a not very noteworthy plot, but is elevated by a fearless, balls to the wall performance by 70s character actor Joe Spinell, who just goes above and beyond here as a crazed mama's boy with some severe issues, talking to himself, imagining his dead mother abusing him, and scalping women while sweating profusely. There's also a memorable sequence where Tom Savini creates the SFX for Tom Savini shooting Tom Savini in the head with a shotgun, although the effect itself isn't as memorable as the one in Scanners, which remains the gold standard for exploding heads. Cast also includes Caroline Munro as the love interest with a perspiration fetish, and not very many other actors you've ever heard of.
NYC landlord Frank Zito is unwell. He lives by himself in an apartment full of mannequins, onto whose heads he nails the scalps of the women he kills, and he keeps an altar to his dead abusive mother, whose voice he hears and occasionally speaks in. At night he goes out to hunt prostitutes, couples parked on lovers' lane (Son of Sam style), nurses on their way home, and, later on, models. There's a glimpse of the possibility of change when he meets a Anna, a photographer who takes his picture in the park, and who he later invites to dinner, but his murderous urges and mommy fixation are never far beneath the surface. Landlords, man, they're just the worst.
This is a completely decent looking 4k remaster of this quite rough-looking film, which was shot guerrilla style with very little light, and is therefore grainy and dark in general. I think the grain could have been managed better, but there's not much else that could be improved, I think. The 7.1 remaster (why?) sounds fine, and there's the original theatrical stereo if you prefer that, as well as three commentary tracks, one of which features the omnipresent Savini. This V2 encode cranks the bitrate and improves encoding settings on both video and audio, and adds the third commentary track.
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Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@High / 15.0 Mb/s / 1920 x 1036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 693 kb/s / 8 channels / 7.1 remaster / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 265 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical stereo / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 151 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by director/co-producer William Lustig and co-producer Andrew W. Garroni / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 159 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by director/co-producer William Lustig, special make-up FX artist Tom Savini, editor Lorenzo Marinelli, and assistant to Joe Spinell Luke Walter / English
Audio #5 : AAC LC / 137 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by The Hysteria Continues / English
Text #1 : SRT / 28.0 b/s / English
Text #2 : SRT / 37.0 b/s / English SDH
Text #3 : VobSub / 4.3 kb/s / Hong Kong Traditional Chinese
Text #4 : VobSub / 4.4 kb/s / Taiwan Traditional Chinese
Text #5 : VobSub / 4.3 kb/s / Simplified Chinese
Text #6 : VobSub / 4.2 kb/s / Danish
Text #7 : VobSub / 4.2 kb/s / Dutch
Text #8 : VobSub / 3.7 kb/s / Finnish
Text #9 : VobSub / 4.0 kb/s / French
Text #10 : VobSub / 4.2 kb/s / German
Text #11 : VobSub / 3.9 kb/s / Italian
Text #12 : VobSub / 3.1 kb/s / Japanese
Text #13 : VobSub / 2.8 kb/s / Korean
Text #14 : VobSub / 3.7 kb/s / Portuguese
Text #15 : VobSub / 3.8 kb/s / Russian
Text #16 : VobSub / 4.1 kb/s / Spanish
Text #17 : VobSub / 3.9 kb/s / Swedish
Text #18 : VobSub / 3.9 kb/s / Thai
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Blood Beach
00:02:37.366 : Main Titles
00:06:05.991 : One Last Trick
00:09:00.790 : Strangled and Scalped
00:16:39.957 : "I Told You Not to Go Out Tonight"
00:21:12.688 : Hunter
00:24:02.775 : Double-Barreled Death
00:30:40.213 : Breaking News
00:35:47.687 : Night Stalker
00:42:17.326 : Reflection of Fear
00:48:56.183 : Anna and Frank
00:54:47.242 : Photo Shoot
00:58:25.168 : Naked Terror
01:04:34.829 : Torment
01:12:38.396 : Mommie Dearest
01:19:14.667 : Bloody Revenge
01:23:22.956 : Maniac
01:25:40.427 : End Credits

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Code:Encoded from Maniac.1980.1080p.BluRay.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.7.1-PTP.mkv
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