Thanks for the kind feedback.

"The Maniac" was one of three films on an super8 reel made by a group of middle school kids in about 1980. The other two films are a detective story, and a robot story. They were unedited with numerous takes of each scene... I assembled all three of them as best I could, and added music. I also chose the title... I considered calling it "Phsyco Maniac" based on the misspelling in the fake newspaper headline.

Of the three, "The Maniac" was the best, and I think a pretty good effort for a group of kids having fun. Some of the camera angles were pretty imaginative, not to mention brave(?) filming in a construction site. The robot film is less solid, but with a hilarious special effect of the robot getting it's leg cut off in a duel. The robot suit looks suspiciously like a storm trooper outfit. The detective one was the most ambitious, but incomplete and incoherent. However, it had the single best effect that they managed -- a detached hand crawling up the outside of a window. I may or may not include those other two films as future extras. As far as why they were in a tin labelled Star Wars, I would just assume that was by mistake.

Oh, they also filmed footage of them making the films... so a "making of" could actually be done of their films(!)

The soundtrack for Krig is identical to the Grande, except that the Grande had a couple of patches inserted to account for brief missing segments.