Maniac

Maniac (1934)

Der Wissenschaftler Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter) experimentiert mit der Wiedererweckung verstorbener Menschen. Mit seinem neuen Laborassistenten Maxwell (Bill Woods) hat er allerdings ein denkbar schlechtes Los gezogen, denn der theatererfahrene Neue scheint noch irrer zu sein als sein Herr selbst: Maxwell tötet Meirschultz und nimmt dessen Identität an. In seinem fortschreitenden Wahnsinn gleitet der Imitator von nun an Stück für Stück in seine eigene Welt hinab...

Erscheinungsdatum
1934-09-11
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (60)
Laufzeit
51 Min.
Genres
Horror
Regie
Dwain Esper

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: Der schwarze Kater

Maniac is a 1934 American independent black-and-white exploitation horror film directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the 1843 Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat", with references to his "Murders in the Rue Morgue". Esper and Stadie also made the 1936 exploitation film Marihuana.

Production

The film was shot on a minuscule budget of $7,500, according to the film's financier's son, and like many of director Dwain Esper's films was self-distributed on the exploitation roadshow circuit. After initial disappointing returns (and no reviews in the media of the time), the film was retitled Sex Maniac with great success. It became notorious for a scene in which one character strangles a cat and then eats its eyeball.

The footage that is superimposed over the scenes where the actor (having shot the mad scientist) is descending into madness, while bricking his victim inside a wall, originated from the 1922 Danish-Swedish film Häxan.

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