Searching for Elwood

- Few actors have a glance like Elijah Wood. And it’s a real success, for part of makers of this Franco-American co-production, to elect him as protagonist. Alexandre Aja, fanatical director of horror film, and one of his friends director, Franck Khalfoun, who had acted in two of his films, they deal with this remake of 1980 film with same name.

- Elijah Wood, conscious of his face of "first of the class", knew that he should flee of an easy typecasting that it could not do any good to his career. Already in 2005, with Hooligans and Sin City, he performed violent roles, but with Maniac, he will  stop be the adored son-in-law.

- In a role that hardly we see him, except through reflections in mirrors, rear-view mirrors or show windows, on the few occasions where we can enjoy his presence, Elijah Wood has a look of nuts, quite disturbing.

- It's nice that stars like Elijah Wood they are involved in projects which, in principle, should be a thousand miles from their agents. However, seeing them in unusual roles, controverted or series B (or rather, C or D) produces the healthy pleasure of perceiving the risk taken to break an image, and the difficult art of playing a character that has the sole moral dilemma, to give  23 or 24 stabs each night.