Some buff groups regard these maniacal killers as tools of the sinister Illuminati who have been pressed into service by hypnosis or some other brainwashing technique.

She was starting to feel like an idiotic teenager in a bad B horror movie, who's in the very spot where the maniacal killer always strikes.

The later film became one of the first maniacal killer Santa Claus films, attracting considerable attention at the time of its release.

The maniacal killer apparently, also murdered Doctor Barrett's wife and sister.

"People speak and write today as if it's an established fact that Kit Carson was some kind of maniacal killer."

He has however a double life as the notorious 'Spine-Breaker', Victorian England's most maniacal serial killer.

No less obsessive than the maniacal killer he is stalking, the detective employs methods that are brutal and probably illegal.

Firin' the Band - Ricky is sweet talked into a recording deal with a local producer who later turns out to be a maniacal song-stealing killer.

"There were a lot of films with maniacal killers on the loose," Mr. Estes said.

A gutsy, inventive novel in which the head of San Francisco's police task force against organized crime deals with a maniacal killer and a nerdy paleoanthropolgist.