Maniac

Maniac (1934)

Un chercheur, aidé par son jeune assistant, décide qu'il est grand temps d'expérimenter sa trouvaille : un sérum capable de réveiller les morts. Bien sûr, son acolyte n'est pas du même avis mais finit quand même par céder. Ils se retrouvent donc dans la morgue la plus proche pour se rendre compte que la création fonctionne parfaitement sur le cadavre d'une jeune femme...

Date de sortie
1934-09-11
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (60)
Durée
51 min
Genres
Horreur
Réalisateur
Dwain Esper

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Adapté de : Le Chat noir

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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