| Overview: | "The Manicas" is a brilliant portrait of the Italian society of the sixties. The film is divided in several segments, each one devoted to a particular mania, with a special attention to the sexual ones. This anthology is filled with popular Italian comedians, Walter Chiari, Raimondo Vianello, Franco Franchi & Ciccio Ingrassia and many others, along with international performers such as Lisa Gastoni, Gaia Germani and Umberto d Orsi.
"The Maniacs" is also remembered as the only collaboration between the notorious director Lucio Fulci ("The Black Cat", "Zombi 2") and the legendary "scream queen" Barbara Steele ("Black Sunday"), not to mention the soundtrack from the Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone.
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