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By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

When William Lustig\u2019s now classic 1980’s horror film MANIAC first opened in theatres in\u00a0 Center City, Philadelphia, it wasn\u2019t playing at any of the more \u201crespectable\u201d theatres.\u00a0 It was showing in what was once the \u201cXXX\u201d theater area,\u00a0 an area my father always deemed unsafe for me to go to alone.\u00a0 Were he even aware of the nature of MANIAC beyond being \u201ca horror film\u201d,\u00a0 my heading to the theatre to see the film would have only concerned him more as MANIAC is the story of a serial killer named\u00a0 Frank.\u00a0 Dealing with mother issues, Frank was a killer of fascinating proportion, stalking women in the gritty, dirty, \u201cpiss-filled\u201d side streets and alleys of New York, killing them, scalping them.\u00a0 Gritty, visceral, raw, MANIAC was one of the ultimate grindhouse \u201cmust sees\u201d of the day and has lived long thanks initially to VHS and its compelling box art and then the ease and economy of viewing with mediums like Netflix, VOD, DVD, etc.\u00a0 So it comes as no surprise that MANIAC finally gets a reimagination, this time thanks to director Frank Khalfoun.<\/p>\n

\"khalfoun<\/p>\n

In what is without a doubt as near perfect a reimagination or remake as any film can be, Khalfoun turns MANIAC on its head, literally and figuratively.\u00a0 Shifting the point of view to being completely within the eyeline of Frank, Khalfoun thus immerses each of us into the mind and mind\u2019s eye of a serial killer, forcing us to see and feel what Frank is thinking, seeing and doing.\u00a0 But then he casts Elijah Wood as Frank.\u00a0 No longer a burly hulking menace as Joe Spinell\u2019s Frank is in Lustig\u2019s original, Wood\u2019s diminutive elfin stature belies the evil within, creating an ambiguity that rattles the cages and keeps one on edge the entire film.\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly, it wasn\u2019t until years after the film\u2019s theatrical release that Khalfoun was even exposed to MANIAC.\u00a0 Not allowed to see it, \u201cI didn\u2019t even know it existed in theatres.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t see Saturday Night Fever either.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t allowed to see [those films] back then.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 But once he did, it was forever ingrained in his subconscious fabric.<\/p>\n

I had a chance to sit down with Franck Khalfoun and in this exclusive interview, talk about MANIAC, and his desire to not have MANIAC be a \u201cclose to perfect remake\u201d but a \u201cclose to perfect film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"khalfoun<\/p>\n

One of the really impressive aspects of this film, not that every element isn\u2019t very impressive, is the cinematography.\u00a0 How did you go about designing that cinematography and the overall tonal look because you\u2019ve got this great bluish noir icy feel and then you pop it with color in very judicious moments?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My whole take on the way that this film look was obviously production design and cinematography.\u00a0 I wanted it to look beautiful and then I wanted it to be all drenched in darkne<\/em><\/strong>ss, sort of symbolizing this perhaps beautiful man who is now covered himself in darkness and trying to slowly to reveal himself, trying to come out of that.\u00a0 It just embodies the character.\u00a0 The problem with doing a movie in POV is that I have to use every other element to try and create emotion and create a sensibility.\u00a0 I knew that if I made a very lush, beautiful movie and then darkened it, that it would evoke some sort of feeling, some sort of mystery<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 You want the veil to be lifted as you want the veil to be lifted on this character as you want to discover, as you hope that this character will sort of lift himself out of this thing.\u00a0 Beyond it being a movie about a man slashing and scalping women, it\u2019s a man looking for love, looking for acceptance, looking for a way out of his wounds of childhood.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

MANIAC doesn\u2019t come across as a man slashing.\u00a0 I felt this to be a truly poignant drama about the human condition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Totally.\u00a0 And I\u2019m glad you feel that way because I think movies are more powerful when they bring something deeper, regardless if it\u2019s a genre film or not<\/em><\/strong>, regardless if it\u2019s a horror movie or not.\u00a0 Most of the horror movies that stand time are the ones that go beyond scares and actually tell human story.\u00a0 You can always tell a good horror film if you remove the horror.\u00a0 If you remove the horror and you analyze what the drama, what the life, what the character\u2019s drama is, then you know that you\u2019re pretty much going to have something that stands and that will be entertaining and that will connect.\u00a0 You can\u2019t horrify people if you don\u2019t connect them to your character.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 If they don\u2019t love your character, what\u2019s the difference.\u00a0 You can\u2019t scare people if you don\u2019t care about who you\u2019re killing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scaring here is done with the way you build the tension.\u00a0 You build tension very incrementally so we\u2019re on tenterhooks waiting to see what\u2019s coming but becoming more and more invested in Elijah\u2019s character of Frank, this wounded soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re right.\u00a0 It\u2019s not your typical sort of fear movie with things jumping out at you.\u00a0 It slowly creeps on you.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 And the longer you spend in this guy\u2019s mind, I think, the more you want to escape it . . . you\u2019re stuck.\u00a0 In the same way he\u2019s stuck in his brain in doing the things that he does, you\u2019re stuck in watching.\u00a0 You are complicit now.\u00a0 Not only are you stuck as a witness, but you are complicit in what he\u2019s doing.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> And there\u2019s a strange thing that happens.\u00a0 As you participate, as an audience member you want to see what happens next.\u00a0 But now that you\u2019re complicit in the crime, it has a double edged feeling.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to leave because you want to see what happens and you don\u2019t want this to happen but it\u2019s happening regardless and you can\u2019t help it.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s what creeps up on you and that\u2019s the sort of difficult thing that there is about watching this movie.\u00a0 I think this beautiful cinematography, this beautiful art direction, this really lush and sort of epic score creates a very false sense of comfort and security.\u00a0 That juxtapositioned with horrific acts of violence, it\u2019s troubling.\u00a0 It\u2019s jolting, I think, in a good way.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then you also lure us into a false sense of security as the film lightens with the introduction of Anna.\u00a0 You get the porcelain white, white, white, not even a flesh tone mannequin, it\u2019s the porcelain white, white.\u00a0 The purity, the light and you think there\u2019s going to be this great shift with Frank that just pulls you in even deeper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, yes!\u00a0 It\u2019s funny that you say the light comes in when she appears because that\u2019s exactly [what happens].\u00a0 The whole movie\u2019s dark until he raises the curtain and there comes the light into his life.\u00a0 There she is in all her radiant beauty and innocence in a way.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> You\u2019re hoping that this will be the shift for him.\u00a0 That\u2019s why you\u2019re grabbed by him because it is innocent and there is an attraction which works I think so much better than the original in the way that the character has a potential.\u00a0 There\u2019s a real potential here for a relationship and that is terribly dramatic as opposed to the original which you\u2019re just waiting for him to cut her into pieces.\u00a0 Here, you\u2019re hoping, I think , that he changes, that he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"khalfoun<\/p>\n

You see that humanity that you give him.\u00a0 What led you to cast Elijah?\u00a0 He is perfect, perfect for this take on Frank.\u00a0 Just seeing his eyes or his reflection and not seeing him throughout the movie, but just those mesmerizing eyes of his or his reflection in a mirror or looking in the rear-view mirror, on a glass or window pane – this is not who you would typically think of for a role like this but it adds another dimension and layer to it with his own innocence<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has these beautiful kind eyes.\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly why.\u00a0 It\u2019s the last person you\u2019d expect.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>I think that\u2019s the most terrifying thing about serial killers – and everybody always says it – \u201cit was our neighbor.\u00a0 We loved this guy.\u00a0 He was quiet, calm.\u00a0 He was nice, polite to everybody, and he turned out to be a monster.\u201d\u00a0 That is so much scarier to me than the guy who looks like [someone] you would run from if you saw him on a street corner.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why initially when producers and everybody started mentioning Elijah, I thought, \u2018How interesting.\u2019\u00a0 So many actors carry this baggage of the past things that they\u2019ve done and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really the case with Elijah because he has the range, obviously, you can see it in this, that he has the range to do this.\u00a0 But if anybody was going to associate him with past characters, I thought that most of those characters have been good and innocent and I thought, \u201cWhat a thrill to sort of destroy that mythology.\u00a0 To have him be the catalyst for the story and for these murders.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s terrifying to know that, \u2018Wow!\u00a0 If our next door neighbor could do this, then it\u2019s possible for anybody.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019re no stranger to the film industry on both sides of the camera.\u00a0 At this stage of your career, what\u2019s the greatest gift that filmmaking gives to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow!\u00a0 Ya know, it\u2019s such a hard thing to do<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I think that a lot of people think \u201chow glamorous\u201d and it\u2019s certainly not.\u00a0 It\u2019s war.\u00a0 It\u2019s very difficult and I think the state of film and the industry for guys like me and auteurs or filmmakers, it\u2019s becoming harder and harder to get things done.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 So we spend most of our time churning and hustling and fighting to not only [develop] ideas, but get things off the ground.\u00a0 I think the greatest gift is just doing it, just having the opportunity to do it.\u00a0 For me, the real kick has always been the audience.\u00a0 From when I was directing theater or being on stage, it\u2019s always about that connection with an audience.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 So when I show a film, I spend my time watching the audience.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen the film a million times.\u00a0 Even when I did theater, theater was great for that because each performance had its own timing, its own rhythm, its own life, and things would happen on stage.\u00a0 It was magical because it was always different no matter what.\u00a0 So you would end up watching the parade, but you always keep your eyes on the audience as well.\u00a0 For me in the movies it\u2019s how the audience reacts and where I can connect and what I can say and that people actually pay attention. [laughing] It\u2019s so hard to put up congruent ideas and have them stand.\u00a0 With the lives that we lead and the lives that people have, to ask them to sit for 1 \u00bd hours and watch what you\u2019ve done, that\u2019s the gift.\u00a0 It\u2019s really cool.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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