10 Horror Movies Where The Villain Survives

4. Maniac (1980)

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If you watch this movie, get ready for one wild and gory ride. From the offset we know there is going to be absolute carnage as we follow the story of Frank, a serial killer of women who scalps his victims and makes memorial mannequins of their clothes and hair.

Following several brutal murders it seems that Frank may be turning a bit of a corner, going on a couple of dates with a photographer named Anna and managing to resist murdering her! The pair stop by the cemetery to lay flowers on the grave of Frank’s late mother, where in a fit of grief he attacks Anna but she manages to escape.

Frank hallucinates his mother’s rotting corpse attacking him and flees home, where he then sees each of his corpse mannequins coming to life and attacking him.

The next morning, the police find him lying in bed having apparently committed suicide. This would be a fitting end to this bloody crusade, however as the police leave we see Frank’s eyes suddenly open. He lives to kill another day!

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