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unusual facts about Maniac



Anna Dello Russo

She is self-described as a "passionate fashionista" and has been described by Helmut Newton as a "fashion maniac".

Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls

In total 12 of the tracks were previously recorded by Wednesday 13's band Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 and 1 from an earlier band, Maniac Spider Trash.

Daddy Screw

Daddy Screw has also recorded collaborations and made guest appearances on tracks by several other artists including Terror Fabulous ("Broke Wine Butterfly"), Sharon Forrester ("Money Isn't Everything"), Tinga Stewart ("Dancehall Maniac"), Maxi Priest ("Heartbreaker"), Toyin Adekale ("Man Wid De Agony" and "Second to None") and Barrington Levy ("Girl I Like Your Style").

Flying Dagger

Among the sources of the music are "The Attack" from Quigley Down Under by Basil Poledouris as the theme for the Hon Brothers, the main theme from A Fish Called Wanda by John Du Prez as the theme for the Fung sisters, as well as music from Jay Chattaway's Maniac, Alan Silvestri's Death Becomes Her, and David Newman's Heathers, among others.

Invisible Man: Rape!

Allmovie writes that Invisible Man: Rape! more closely resembles later U.S. teen wish-fulfillment fantasies like Zapped! (1982) and Invisible Maniac (1980) than contemporary rape-themed Roman porno films.

Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence

Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence is a 1993 horror action film, and the second sequel to Maniac Cop, directed by William Lustig and Joel Soisson.

MANIAC II

MANIAC II was built by the University of California and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, completed in 1957.

Pieter Dirkx

In 2011, Pieter Dirkx directed the music video for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's single "Maniac".

Psycho Cop

The film is very similar to Maniac Cop, though the titular character is not a mutilated monster, unlike Maniac Cop.

Reemer

Frontman Dave Hunter's longtime girlfriend (who starred in the music video for Maniac) is former Hollyoaks actress Leah Hackett.

Slavs and Tatars

Stealers Wheel' "Stuck in the Middle with you" became "Stuck in Ossetia with you" about the Georgia-Russia war of 2008 while Michael Sembello's "She's a Maniac" (from Fame) becomes "She's Armenian" about the Armenian diaspora.


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