What is "maniac"

maniac \ma"ni*ac\, n. A raving lunatic; a madman.

c.1600, "pertaining to mania; insane," from French maniaque (14c.), from Late Latin maniacus, from Greek maniakos, from mania (see mania). Borrowed at first in French form; Latinized in English from 1727. The noun is attested from 1763, from the adjective.

n. 1 An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania. 2 A fanatic, a person with an obsession.

adj. wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy" [syn: maniacal, maniac(p)]

n. an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman]

Maniac (from Greek μανιακός, maniakos) is a pejorative for an individual who experiences the mood known as mania. Also in common usage it is an insult for someone involved in reckless behavior.

Maniac may also refer to:

• MANIAC I, an early computer
• Maryland Maniacs, a United States indoor football team

Maniac is a 1980 American exploitation slasher horror film directed by William Lustig and written by Joe Spinell and C. A. Rosenberg. The plot focuses on a disturbed and traumatized serial killer who scalps his victims. Spinell also developed the story and stars as the lead character.

With a minuscule budget, many scenes in the film were shot guerrilla style. Originally considered an exploitation film, Maniac has since attained a cult following despite receiving mixed reviews and released in limited theatres. It was distributed by Analysis Film Releasing Corp. The Hollywood Reporter called it "something of a grubby touchstone among genre fans." The film was remade in 2012 by director Franck Khalfoun and produced by Alexandre Aja, starring Elijah Wood in the lead role.

Maniac, also known as Sex Maniac, is a 1934 black-and-white exploitation/ horror film, directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story " The Black Cat", with references to his " Murders in the Rue Morgue". Esper and Stadie also made the 1936 exploitation film Marihuana.

The film, which was advertised with the tagline "He menaced women with his weird desires!", is in the public domain. A restored version was made available in 1999, as part of a double feature with another Dwain Esper film, Narcotic! (1933). A full length RiffTrax for the movie was released on November 25, 2009, with commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. John Wilson, the founder of the Golden Raspberry Award, named Maniac as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in his book The Official Razzie Movie Guide.

Maniac is a monster truck, and the team truck to Jurassic Attack in the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam series. The truck is owned by Don Frankish of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Don has won the save of the year in 2008, driving Jurassic Attack. He is known to participate southwest around California, and up north around Minnesota. In recent years, Don has constructed a new Jurassic Attack ride truck and has parted ways with his two race trucks. Maniac, now owned by Trent Hickie, continues to perform at Canadian shows each year.

"Maniac" is a song performed by American girl group Girlicious. Released as the second single from their second album, Rebuilt. It officially impacted Canadian radio on March 23, 2010. It was released to iTunes Canada on April 6, 2010. Maniac" reached number seventy-four on the Canadian Hot 100. It performed best on the Serbian Top 50 singles where it charted for eleven weeks and reached a peak of eleven.

Maniac (born Brandon Jolie in Bow, East London) is an English grime producer. Maniac served 6 years of a 14 year sentence after being convicted of conspiracy to murder in 2009 before being given a conditional early release in 2015. In music, Maniac is a highly rated producer who has worked with artists such as Wiley, Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk.

"Maniac" is a song performed by Michael Sembello. The song was used in the 1983 film Flashdance.

"Maniac" appears during an early scene in Flashdance and is used as the backing track of a montage sequence showing Alex ( Jennifer Beals) training strenuously in her converted warehouse.

The song was included in Flashdance after Sembello's wife accidentally included it on a tape sent to executives at Paramount Pictures who were looking for music to use in the film.

A dance music version was released in 2000, by Irish DJ Mark McCabe, entitled " Maniac 2000".

Maniac is a 2012 French-American psychological slasher film directed by Franck Khalfoun and written by Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, and C.A. Rosenberg. The film was produced by the French film companies La Petite Reine and Studio 37. It is a remake of the 1980 film of the same name and stars Elijah Wood as Frank Zito, a brutal serial killer. The film also stars Nora Arnezeder, Jan Broberg, and America Olivo.

Maniac is a power pop, punk rock band from Los Angeles, CA. that was started by Andrew Zappin, Zache Davis of The Cute Lepers and The Girls, Ardavon Fatehi and Richie Cardenas of Clorox Girls and Neighborhood Brats in 2012. Shortly after Maniac's formation, Justin Maurer of La Drugz and Clorox Girls replaced Ardavon on guitar. The following year, Richie left and was replaced by James Carman of Images and LA Drugz on the drums. Maniac have been described as "a perfect combination of everything that's cool about melodic punk and power pop" and their first record Demimonde "offers the kind of melodic buzzsaw that’s just as likely to appeal to every fortysomething at the last Buzzcocks show as it will to every twentysomething at the last Ty Segall show."

The band released a single in 2013 and a full-length LP in 2014, both on La Ti Da records. The band premiered a video for "Party City" which was the first single off their LP "Demimonde" in 2015.

Maniac is an upcoming American dark-comedy television series by Cary Fukunaga, with the main roles played by Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. The show is set to air in 2016 on Netflix. The project has been ordered to series on January 23, 2016.

The Norwegian original is created by Espen PA Lervaag and Håkon Bast Mossige.