New York taxi driver, with aspirations in directing a big horror film, Vinny Durand(Joe Spinell)is obsessed with female horror icon Jana Bates(Caroline Munro)and follows her to Cannes Film Festival willing to go to any lengths necessary to see the actress star in his picture. The film paints him an oddball right from the start as we see Durand masturbating in a darkened theater to the scene of a horror flick featuring a naked woman frying from an electrical wire in her hot tub..this ought to let the viewer know from the get-go what they're in for.
The film is mostly set in Cannes and director David Winters shoots exact streets, movie posters, and people on locations trying to capture that spirit of movie-making as the film transpires with sweaty Durand, quite bonkers as he endlessly fantasizes of being a star director appearing before crowds of adoring fans applauding at a movie premiere dressed in fancy black suit and cape(..this is a gas!). Soon those associated with Jana Bates who turn Durand down, when he approaches them with his great desire and script for her, wind up murdered in various ways(sliced throat, ax to the back, knife-stabbing, and gun-shots to the back of the skull). Is Durand the man responsible for these crimes?
My favorite scene has poor, frightened-out-of-her-wits Munro running from crazed Spinell from her bathroom, through her hotel, and into the Cannes streets in nothing but a towel! Love those scenes between Spinell and his mom(ESPECIALLY the final one!). Those expecting the graphic blood-letting of Spinell and Munro's previous "Maniac" will probably be disappointed with this film. I don't think the film is very good, (quite sloppy actually), but Spinell delivers enough lunacy in his wacko to entertain those horror fans looking for it.
The film is mostly set in Cannes and director David Winters shoots exact streets, movie posters, and people on locations trying to capture that spirit of movie-making as the film transpires with sweaty Durand, quite bonkers as he endlessly fantasizes of being a star director appearing before crowds of adoring fans applauding at a movie premiere dressed in fancy black suit and cape(..this is a gas!). Soon those associated with Jana Bates who turn Durand down, when he approaches them with his great desire and script for her, wind up murdered in various ways(sliced throat, ax to the back, knife-stabbing, and gun-shots to the back of the skull). Is Durand the man responsible for these crimes?
My favorite scene has poor, frightened-out-of-her-wits Munro running from crazed Spinell from her bathroom, through her hotel, and into the Cannes streets in nothing but a towel! Love those scenes between Spinell and his mom(ESPECIALLY the final one!). Those expecting the graphic blood-letting of Spinell and Munro's previous "Maniac" will probably be disappointed with this film. I don't think the film is very good, (quite sloppy actually), but Spinell delivers enough lunacy in his wacko to entertain those horror fans looking for it.