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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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08.06.09
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Don Maxwell is a vaudevillian actor known for his impersonations, who is running from the police and has taken a job assisting a certain Dr. Meirschultz. Meirschultz believes he knows the way to resurrect the dead with a special formula he has created, and when he cannot find a corpse to experiment on, he orders Maxwell to kill himself so that he might test the serum on him instead. Rather than go through with it, Maxwell turns his gun on Meirschultz, killing him; and so that he won't arouse suspicion, Maxwell then disguises himself as the doctor and attempts to fill his role. He proceeds to meet a couple of murderously-minded women, drive one man to insanity, and eat a cat's eyeball. Sporadically placed title cards relating the symptoms of various mental illnesses help give the movie its title.
Movie Tagline:
He menaced women with weird desires!
Title: Maniac
Release Date: September 11, 1934
Runtime: 51 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 2.7
Brimstone Pit Rating: 3.7 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With M
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director(s):
Dwain Esper
Cast:
William Woods ...Don Maxwell (as Bill Woods)
Horace B. Carpenter ...Dr. Meirschultz
Ted Edwards ...Buckley
Phyllis Diller ...Mrs. Buckley
Thea Ramsey ...Alice Maxwell
Jenny Dark ...Maizie
Marvelle Andre ...Marvel (as Marvel Andre)
Celia McCann ...Jo
John P. Wade ...Embalmer (as J.P. Wade)
Marian Constance Blackton ...Neighbor (as Marian Blackton)
Umberto Guarracino ...Pluto (archive footage)
Bartolomeo Pagano ...Maciste (archive footage)
Satan ...Satan the Cat
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Dwain Esper
Louis Sonney
Hildegarde Stadie
Writer(s):
Hildegarde Stadie
Trailer(s):
Maniac Horror Film Trailer 1
More Movie Taglines:
- He menaced women with weird desires!
- A Subject Seldom Discussed
- True and Authentic/Nothing Withheld
- Strange Loves Exposed
- What Are the Dangers of Desire?
- What Wrecks Romances?
- The Truth About Love Fearlessly Told
Movie Quote(s):
- Dr. Meirschultz: Tonight, my dear Maxwell, I'm ready to try my experiment on a human!
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Buckley: Oh! Stealing through my body! Creeping though my veins! Pouring in my blood! Oh, DARTS OF FIRE IN MY BRAIN! STABBING ME! I CAN'T STAND IT! I WON'T!
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Blonde: Hay, Mazie! We know you're hard boiled. You don't have to stay in the water thirty minutes to prove it. Mazie: Oh, lemme alone. I may not be decent, but I'm sure gonna be clean!
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Maxwell: It was in Miersholtz' eyes when he wanted to murder me. It was in Mrs. Buckley's eyes when she wanted to murder her husband. Alice had the gleam in her eye when she wanted to find me. She'd murder me! I must get rid of her. How? Mrs. Buckley! She will help. She must help!
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Detective: What's with all the cats? What's the trouble? Rats? Cat Man: Aw, thousands! Right here in my back yard. Detective: Thousands! Cat Man: Yeah, got a thousand cats too. Wanna see'em?
Movie Trivia:
- The "Bill Woods" who is credited as playing Maxwell appears to be William Woods, a Los Angeles makeup artist who's skills would have been of great assistance to the plot of the film.
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This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE.
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SPOILER: In the scene where a cat's head is squeezed and its eyeball pops out, the cat actually only had one eye; a glass eye was inserted into the empty socket before filming, and that was what popped out.
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SPOILER: The actor who plays Maxwell also plays the coroner, who he is seen impersonating earlier in the film. Only one of the embalmers is credited, and he is referred to by another character as 'Mike'
IMDB Links:
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Keywords:
Assistant, Doctor, Scientist, Impersonation, Cat ...[more]
Keywords All:
Heart, Mad Scientist, Fake Beard, Black Cat, Morgue, Disguise, Vaudevillian, Benefactor, Insanity, Jar, Nudity, Marriage, Gore, Husband Wife Relationship, Strangulation, Multiple Exposure, Catfight, Murder, Driven Mad, Propped Up Corpse Falls Down, Evil Laughter, Fur, Closing Eyes Of Dead Person, Low Budget Film, Mental Illness, Rat, Estranged Wife, Eye Gouging, Disembodied Heart, Basement, Exploitation Film, Devil, Demon, Manic Laughter, Wife, Exercise Machine, Reanimation, Rape, Hiding Dead Body, Re Animate, Coffin, Madness, Public Domain, Scheming Wife, Police Officer, Dead Body, Melodrama, Belt Massager, Policeman, Violence, Brick Wall, Bathtub, Hypodermic Needle, Female Nudity, Inheritance, Insane Man, Husband, Exploitation, Eating Of Cat, Animal Abuse, Embalmer, Carrying Someone, Lingerie, Cellar, Dead Woman, Topless Woman, Sleaze, Jail Cell, Dead Man, Ham Actor, Mutilation, Independent Film
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Rating: 3.7 out of 10.0 - 68 votes cast total
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