William Lustig

1980 classic Maniac gets 4K restoration, limited edition Blu-ray release

Posted 8 years ago

Next month, director William Lustig's disturbing and disgusting 1980 grindhouse classic MANIAC (which features gore provided by special effects legend Tom Savini) will be receiving a limited edition Blu-ray release through Lustig's company Blue Underground, and for this release the...

First wave of programming announced for this year’s Fantastic Fest

Posted 8 years ago

The 14th edition of Fantastic Fest, a festival that celebrates "offbeat and brilliant" cinema, is set to be held in Austin, Texas from September 20th through the 27th, and the first wave of programming has been announced – confirming that...

The Test of Time: Maniac Cop (1988)

Posted 8 years ago

We all have certain movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see?...

Creative team is still pushing the Maniac Cop remake forward

Posted 8 years ago

The MANIAC COP remake is a project I have great interest in, as a fan of the original trilogy (well, not of the third film so much, but the first two are awesome). I want to see more of the...

Maniac Cop creator Larry Cohen says the remake isn’t happening

Posted 9 years ago

Not long ago, it seemed pretty certain that we were going to be getting a remake of the 1988 William Lustig / Larry Cohen film MANIAC COP. Filming was scheduled to take place in Los Angeles this year, with Nicolas...

Documentary series Untold Horror will cover films that didn’t get made

Posted 9 years ago

My favorite director among the "masters of horror" is George A. Romero, and while I cherish the movies he has made, I'm also fascinated by the stories of the movies he couldn't get made. Projects like adaptations of Stephen King's...

Face-Off: Uncle Sam vs. I Know What You Did Last Summer

Posted 10 years ago

Next Monday is the Fourth of July, the time when those of us in the United States celebrate Independence Day, and I don’t mean the Roland Emmerich movie that inspired last week’s Face-Off. For this week’s movie battle we’re celebrating...

John Hyams’ Maniac Cop remake to film in NYC next spring

Posted 11 years ago

Last week we learned that UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING director John Hyams has signed on to direct the remake of William Lustig's awesome 1988 film MANIAC COP for producers Lustig and Nicolas Winding Refn. Talking...

John Hyams set to direct Maniac Cop remake; Nicolas Winding Refn producing

Posted 11 years ago

Since 2012, Nicolas Winding Refn has been attached as a producer on a planned remake of William Lustig's MANIAC COP, and it appears the project may have finally found a director. At Fantastic Fest, Refn announced that John Hyams (UNIVERSAL...

Original Vs. Remake: Maniac

Posted 12 years ago

Holy shit, did we ever have an uproar of 100% agreement with the outcome of our last Original Vs. Remake. How dare we even compare the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street to the original?! Well, this site’s all...