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Maniac! (1980)
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A horror film from 1980. It was directed by William Lustig (Maniac Cop, Uncle Sam) and stars Joe Spinell in the title role.It follows the exploits of the woman-hating and mommy issues-ridden psychopath Frank Zito, who wanders the streets of The Big Rotten Apple from one brutal kill to the next, breathing heavily and babbling incoherently all the while.The film's effects were provided by Tom Savini, which includes the infamous "Disco Boy Scene" where a man's head explodes from a close range shotgun blast.The film also has the dubious honor of being one of three movies the late Gene Siskel had ever walked out on.The year 2012 was treated to a remake that was produced and written by Alexandre Aja and which had Elijah Wood star as the title character. It is mostly the same story, but with the twist that almost the entire film is shot from a first-person perspective. It also incorporates online dating.Not to be confused with an even more crazy and totally unrelated 1934 film, Maniac. Or the 2018 TV show Maniac. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Much of Frank's personality, mommy issues, and his scalp-taking were inspired by Ed Gein. He also shares some traits with the Son of Sam in terms of appearance, place of residence, and time frame of his murders. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Rage Against the Reflection: Frank takes out his frustrations on a mirror, unhappy over his psychotic urges. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: "Rita knew ... Rita knew ... Rita knew ... Rita knew ... Rita knew ..." | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else! | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Frank looks normal and even attractive, and has no trouble getting dates on dating sites. Most of the characters don't seem to notice how disturbed he is even after lengthy conversations. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Frank addresses the viewers at one point. But hey, he's just crazy. | |
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Self-Harm | |
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Self-Harm: Frank makes a routine out of washing his hands under scalding hot water and scrubbing them with a wire brush. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Lucie tells Frank that he's "not what I imagined, I thought you'd be fat with long greasy hair". This is a reference to Joe Spinell, the actor who played Frank in the original. Frank chases one of his victims through a subway, as he did in the original, though he kills her in a parking lot. The aforementioned scene in the parking lot ends with Frank scalping his victim and facing the car in front of him, casting a reflection that resembles the cover of the original. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: In the opening scene, Frank is disgusted with a man for sexually harassing one of his victims-to-be. Or perhaps he just wanted him to get away from her so he could track her. | |
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Jizzed in My Pants | |
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Jizzed in My Pants: Implied. While Frank is scalping one of his victims, he lets out a long, pleasurable sigh. | |
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Stalker Shrine | |
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Stalker Shrine: There's one for Frank's mother, that's right next to his bed. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Joe Spinell shot someone to death through a glass window whilst wearing a suitably maniacal slasher smile. | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
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Bedmate Reveal: When Frank gets up from his bed, the audience is shown that the corpse of his latest victim is laying next to him. | |
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All in the Eyes | |
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All in the Eyes: Used when Frank wakes up, Catapult Nightmare-style, and light is shining on his eyes. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Frank, more so in the original than in the remake. He's a mentally unstable serial killer with a room full of dolls and childhood toys, and has an unhealthy, childlike obsession with his belated mother. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: Did Frank survive his suicide attempt, or did his eyes open due a post-mortem muscle spasm? If he did survive, what then? He's not going anywhere soon with a deep stomach wound and severe blood loss. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Anna dies in a car crash, and Frank claims her scalp. Also, Frank bleeds out from his stomach wound in this one. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison: Anna realizes she's Alone with the Psycho when Frank comes over to her apartment to comfort her, and starts spilling more details about Rita's murder than he has any good reason to know, such as the distance from her apartment to the art gallery. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Unlike the original version, all of Frank's intended targets die, along with Frank himself. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Frank, in both versions, though in different ways. In the original, despite his misogynistic streak, he takes a genuine liking to Anna and even warns a little girl who bumps into him on her bike to be careful. The remake version has none of the misogyny of his original counterpart and warns at least one victim to let him leave before he kills her. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness: In the original film, Frank was a sweaty, beer-bellied middle-aged man. He's played by Elijah Wood in this version, and the comparison is even lampshaded by one of his victims. Though his hands are covered in scabs and burns from Self-Harm. | |
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Sinister Subway | |
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Sinister Subway: Frank follows one of his victims through one. | |
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Facial Horror | |
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Facial Horror: The end has Frank hallucinating that his face gets ripped to shreds. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Frank misses his mother, despite the horrible abuse she put him through. | |
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The Remake | |
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The Remake: The unmade sequel was apparently going to be a remake of the 1975 film The Psychopath. And of course, there's the remake of the original. | |
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Big Word Shout | |
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Big Word Shout: "MOTHEEEEEEER!!!" | |
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Bungled Suicide | |
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Bungled Suicide: Frank stabs himself in the stomach with a knife at the end, hallucinating it as his victims coming back to life to take their revenge. But at the end, after the cops leave to get the coroner, his eyes open. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: Frank murders five women (six in the remake) and takes their scalps as trophies. | |
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Senseless Violins | |
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Senseless Violins: Frank carries his shotgun in a violin case. | |
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Job Title | |
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Job Title: Well, Frank is certainly maniacal. | |
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Slashed Throat | |
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Slashed Throat: Frank does this to his first on-screen victim (whom he finds on the beach waiting for her boyfriend) with a razor blade. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: Frank's final hallucination has his mannequins come to life and ripping his head off. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: When you take Frank's miserable life and general loneliness into account, he becomes a lot more pitiful than revolting. Made all the worse by his instant remorse whenever he claims a victim. | |
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The Public Domain Channel | |
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The Public Domain Channel: Frank and Anna attend a screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Slightly. Frank was, in the original, cripplingly awkward and had a few misogynistic tendencies outside of his mommy issues and his killings, has "serial killer" written all over him, but was disturbed by actually killing women. Here, he doesn't seem to hate women (he outright tells one of his victims that he likes her and tries to warn her to leave before he kills her) and while still awkward, his awkwardness comes off sweet and endearing when it's not heartbreaking. He has more in common with Norman Bates than he does his original counterpart. | |
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Unbroken First-Person Perspective | |
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Unbroken First-Person Perspective: Not quite an example - while most of the film is from Frank's POV, it periodically breaks perspective to depict events from an omniscient third-person perspective, such as when Frank murders his third victim in a parking lot. The film also employs a handful of Third Person Flashbacks to Frank's childhood, and sometimes depicts Frank's fantasies or hallucinations from a third-person perspective (although it could be argued that these are still from his perspective, given that all of these are occurring inside his head). | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Both films follow Frank's point of view. | |
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Shovel Strike | |
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Shovel Strike: Anna attacks Frank with a shovel when he is chasing her in the cemetery. | |
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Bullet Time | |
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Bullet Time: Used when Frank shoots Disco Boy and when he attacks one of the Anna's photograph models. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: Various mannequins which wear scalps from Frank's victims that he keeps around his apartment. | |
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Mask of Sanity | |
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Mask of Sanity: Frank hides how he disturbed he is very well, and most of the characters seem to think of him as at worst a little eccentric. | |
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Rise from Your Grave | |
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Rise from Your Grave: Frank has a hallucination at the graveyard of his mother's maggot-infested corpse rising from the grave and grabbing him. | |
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Grave-Marking Scene | |
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Grave-Marking Scene: Frank visits his mother's grave near the end. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: From a first-person perspective, no less. | |
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He-Man Woman Hater: Although Frank is remorseful for his killings, he still appears to have some issues with them, like his confusion regarding Anna's photographic project. | |
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The End... Or Is It? | |
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The End... Or Is It?: Frank goes off the deep end, hallucinating that his victims have returned to take revenge, stabbing himself in the stomach in his madness. The cops show up to arrest him, and find him lying on his bed. They go get the coroner, and his eyes open the moment they close the door. | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Takes place at Christmastime. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Frank has this reaction to most of his murders. It doesn't stop him from committing them, though. | |
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Murderous Mannequin: Frank hallucinates being ripped apart by his own mannequins (on which he placed the scalps of his victims) in both versions of the film. | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child: A little girl bumps into Frank on her bike; he just tells her to be careful and sends her on her way. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Frank doesn't survive this time around, and after sitting through an hour and a half watching what sanity he has deteriorate, it's really sad. | |
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Final Girl | |
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Final Girl: Subverted with Anna, as she dies this time around. | |
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No-Tell Motel | |
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No-Tell Motel: Frank takes the hooker whom he intends to kill into an establishment like this. | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: Anna tries to run down the serial killer with his car. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: Disco Boy's death, courtesy of a double-barrel shotgun blast by Frank. | |
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Make-Out Point | |
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Make-Out Point: Disco Boy and Disco Girl drive into one near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for some Auto Erotica. Unfortunately, they were followed by Frank. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The film includes a version of Q Lazzarus' "Goodbye Horses." Frank and Anna attend a screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Frank's mother was a prostitute who beat him and would lock him in the closet when she was with her johns. That would certainly explain his awkwardness around the fairer sex, as well as why he kills women that remind him of her. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Most of the characters, like Disco Boy and Disco Girl. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Frank sees his hand being chopped off in his last hallucination. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Which describes the Ax-Crazy Frank. | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
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Troubled, but Cute: Women tend to see Frank as attractive, but he's clearly got a lot of issues and tries to push them away before he kills them. | |
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Hallucinations | |
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Hallucinations: Frank starts having these when Anna hurts him at the cemetery in the original. The remake has one as well. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head A-Splode: Disco Boy's head explodes thanks to a shotgun blast. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Both the original and remake do not leave much to the imagination. | |
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Reluctant Psycho | |
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Reluctant Psycho: Frank hates killing and feels nothing but remorse for his crimes, but is urged on by his own psychosis. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Anna's boyfriend, Jason. He calls Frank gay and continues to belittle and antagonize him afterwards. According to Anna, he was an asshole to her, as well, which led to them breaking up after the party. To a lesser extent, Rita. She (possibly) mistakenly calls him "Fred", and mocks his profession to his face. Though she wasn't wrong about the mannequins being creepy, and is implied to have been on good terms with Rita. | |
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Disposable Sex Worker | |
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Disposable Sex Worker: Frank's second on-screen victim is a hooker whom he picks up from the streets, and proceeds to strangle in bed. | |
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To a lesser extent, Rita. She (possibly) mistakenly calls him "Fred", and mocks his profession to his face. Though she wasn't wrong about the mannequins being creepy, and is implied to have been on good terms with Rita. | |
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Camping a Crapper | |
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Camping a Crapper: Frank chases a nurse into a subway restroom and kills her there. | |
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Blood-Splattered Innocents: Disco Girl gets covered with Disco Boy's blood when Frank shoots him. | |
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