Maniac Tales tells the story of Juan, a Mexican illegal immigrant in New York, who is offered a job as a doorman in an old building of the city. It turns out that the screenwriter of *Maniac Tales*, a very popular TV series, lives in the building but has disappeared with the c of the last episode of the season, and a reward is offered to whomever can find that c. Juan decides to investigate and search for it, and when he gets into the screenwriter*s apartment he finds out that the TV series hides creepy secrets which are related to the building.