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Maniacal is a american film of genre Horror released in USA on 10 february 2003 with Mary Ann Springer
Maniacal (2003)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 february 2003
Length 1h22
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Rating37%
Maniacal is a 2003 horror film directed by Joe Castro, and written by Eric Spudic.
Synopsis
While his sister Janet is out with friends one night in 1994, the disturbed Gilbert Gill uses a hammer to wound his alcoholic father and kill his sexually abusive stepmother before being arrested by Officer Spiegel. Gilbert is placed in the Hitchberg Sanitarium, where he is tormented by hallucinations of his stepmother.Actors
Mary Ann Springer
(Kid in Park)
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