Maniac (1934) [Horror] [Exploitation]
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- If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: goo.gl/0qDmXe | The movie "Maniac", also known as "Sex Maniac", is a 1934 black-and-white exploitation/horror film, directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the 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.
The film, which was advertised with the tagline "He menaced women with his weird desires!", is in the public domain. A restored version was made available in 1999, as part of a double feature with another Dwain Esper film, Narcotic! (1933). A full length RiffTrax for the movie was released on November 25, 2009, with commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. John Wilson, the founder of the Golden Raspberry Award, named Maniac as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in his book The Official Razzie Movie Guide.
Close-up of Bill Woods as "Don Maxwell" pretending to be "Dr. Meirschultz" Don Maxwell (William Woods) is a former vaudeville impersonator who is working as the lab assistant to Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter), a mad scientist attempting to bring the dead back to life. When Don kills Meirschultz, he attempts to hide his crime by "becoming" the doctor, taking over his work and copying his appearance and manner. In the process, he slowly goes insane.
The "doctor" treats a mental patient, Buckley (Ted Edwards), but accidentally injects him with adrenaline, which causes him to go into violent fits. In one of these fits, Buckley kidnaps a woman, tears her clothes off, and rapes her. Buckley's wife (Phyllis Diller) discovers the body of the real doctor, and blackmails Don into turning her husband into a zombie. The ersatz doctor turns the tables on her by manipulating her into fighting with his estranged wife (Thea Ramsey), a former showgirl. When the cat-breeding neighbor Goof sees what's going on, he calls the police, who stop the fight and, following the sound of Satan the cat, find the body of the real doctor hidden behind a brick wall.
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Directed by Dwain Esper, produced by Dwain Esper, Louis Sonney and Hildagarde Stadie, written by Hildagarde Stadie, based on the novel "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, starring Bill Woods as Don Maxwell, Horace B. Carpenter as Dr. Meirschultz, Ted Edwards as Buckley, Phyllis Diller as Mrs. Buckley, Thea Ramsey as Alice Maxwell Jenny Dark as Maizie, Marvel Andre as Marvel Celia, McCann as Jo, John P. Wade as Embalmer and Marian Blackton as Neighbor.
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You can see how old theatre acting influenced movies back then. The over acting and over enunciating. Seems silly now, but fun to watch. Thanks for sharing this.
I dunno, there's something charming and sometimes even more entertaining/interesting about that style of acting.
If you watch actors who understand film acting like Peter Lorre, James Cagney, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, or Joan Crawford you can see that the acting in this film is bad even for its day. And, people may have over enunciated back then; i think people are under enunciating now. If you listen to some millennial narrators, even the men sound kind of like valley girls with mush mouthed vocal fry. Maybe speech class should be reintroduced in schools, lol
Some actors & directors were still having a hard time adjusting to talkies.
Great upload. This is one those so-awfully-bad-it's-good movies.
I'm not sure WTF I just watched, but it was AWSOME 🤯❗
One of the most bizarre movie for its day. Eating a cats eye, topless scenes, crazy voices makes this a movie you have to experience!
So it’s “catnip” for horror movie junkies?🤣😂
Comparing that eye to an oyster.🦪 I did that when I ate a raw sheep's eyeball in Uzbekistan.🐑🇸🇱
Pre code totally bizarre film. Suspect reefers when filming. Fabulous.
It's actually post-Code by a few months. Where's Hays when you need him
31:00 theres the cat eye scene if you were curious, also its just a cat with a fake eyeball they poppped out it wasnt animal abuse or whatever
A mildly-inconvenienced kitty...
And when the cut back to the Doctor/Maxwell, he was eating a peeled grape.
"Once a ham, always a ham!"
I know the actor gave the writer the side eye...🤣
This was hilarious! The eyeball scene...I bet they were *screaming* in the theater! 👁
I know this is pre-code but the nudity still surprised me 😮 This must be the only film that had two cat fights...one between two women and one between two felines. Definitely before PETA! 🤣
great old movies
Now this movie is interesting,lol i just love all of those psychiatric descriptions they gave! What a plan that man had & it almost worked,they really should have recognized that imposter,either way,good movie all the way around,& much Gratitude for this share
Compared to earlier Dwain Esper movies (I'm looking at you, NARCOTIC), this is an actual artistic achievement and a masterpiece. In fact, I'd call it a masterpiece by itself. It has everything -- gore, boobs, madness, cats, stupidity, Satanism, footage from HÄXAN, incredible acting, hilarious dialogue... and at 50 minutes, it never geets boring. I totally enjoyed it from start to finish.
Plus one other juicy tidbit…
Eating that freshly squeezed cat’s eye. 😵
THERE WERE ENOUGH HAMS IN THIS PRODUCTION TO SUPPLY A DELICATESSEN! OSCAR GOES TO 24 YR OLD DEAD WOMAN CARRIED AWAY WHO DID NOTHING!
Lol I know I can barely sit through it
He was harder than lead pipe
What did you expect a dead woman to do?
This film was a trip! So bad, it's kinda good. I also love the pre-code nudity.
THE BEST CAT FIGHT CAME AT THE END!
Seems they borrowed plots from both Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft. I mean, you had "Herbert West Reanimator", "The Telltale Heart", "The Black Cat", and "The Cask of Amantilliado" all blended together with "Murders in the Rue Morgue" merely referenced.
Did anyone notice that a "Phyllis Diller" is listed in the opening credits? Couldn't be the same one, though!
I noticed Phyllis Diller right away...;-)
No, it's not the same Phyllis Diller.
Woodland Restoration This Phyllis Diller was born 1897 and died 1972.
I too saw it right away!!
It's not *the* Phyllis Diller.
24:38 My favourite piece of hammy acting ever!
Seek help
@@lewisc215 I tried, but they were unable to do anything about it. I love it more than ever.
Dr. Sadler's forward was spot on~ in the Bible we're told that faith trumps fear!
Well, that sure was a movie.
It’s like they walked up to people at random and said “do you want to be in a movie”
Most of the people are. The doctor was the only actor as he appeared in other movies before and after
@@jacobschweitzer1068whenever I watch movies like this I look for as much info as possible to annoy the crap out of my family and friends with tiny details they think no one should know. If I didn’t like mildly torturing those close to me I would have missed a detail that I that you might have missed and again the only reason I know this is I like being a dick as far as this is concerned. The doctor was in more movies and it was the only movie for a couple of them but the bulk of the cast worked exclusively together on a few exploitation movie like this and Reefer Madness and weren’t always given credit. This was only made public after the remake of Reefer Madness in 2005 as the families of the long dead cast who were completely unaware of the original Reefer Madness and their family connection to the movie tried to squeeze money from a studio with failed lawsuits.it took me along time to find this stuff so it’s no shame on you or anybody to not know this. I even thought it would be an interesting book but other than what I put here the story isn’t interesting. So that’s what I did during lockdown I’m sure everyone else on earth was more productive than I was.
Lol This is truly a horror film. It’s funny if you smoke first. 😄
This blew my mind. It’s soooooo bad, I didn’t think something this old would compete with modern stinkers but it really does. Hilarious too, I cried laughing.
Well it did make the list of worst moves ever,let alone the 1930's.
Phillis Dillers first big break !!!! LMAO
Warning- don't watch this if you love cats!
Thanks for the warning, but I think it's safe to say that no cats were harmed in the making of this film. ;)
The neighbor with the cats seemed as every bit as a psycho, yet he's just supposed to be quirky or something...
@@divingduck1970 If you don't count the pair they made fight among themselves and the one they made fight with a dog...
I don’t.
"that reminds me...I have pressing business..."
Somehow this is more coherent and entertaining than Rose of the Skywalker. :/
Classic movies r so damn awesome 👍🏻
I wonder what happened to Buckley and that Frankenstein woman he carried off. I imagine they had wild and passionate sex in the fields, which cured her of her zombieism, they fell in love and lived happily ever after.
They had a child and named him Joe Biden.
This was so bizarre on so many levels - loved it! Was just as bad as I expected. So what happened to that guy that got the adrenaline shot and went off and raped the zombie woman? Did they run away together or what? 😂
It's a wonder there was any scenery left at the end of this movie...
11: 26 "Think of it life in the body that sought Oblivion "
8:08 what???? Lmao
Pre-Code Hollywood rules! ;-)
Nabonidus Scorpio i love Pre Code
Filmmaker Dwain Esper actually worked outside the Hollywood studio system & so was not subject to their rules & could circumvent Code standards, thus his gratuitous displays of nudity & violence, he also rented out theaters to exhibit his films without Hollywood or studio interference, truly an independent decades before the term existed, precursor of Ed Wood Jr. for title of worst filmmaker in history, as Maniac clearly demonstrates.
40:50 im surprised theirs nudity in this especially from 1934
it's a pre code movie
@@gjle what does that mean
@@randomreviews4278 The movie was made before codes were put in place that govern displays of nudity in film. The beginning of what we're familiar with today as film ratings such as PG, R, etc. I don't know the date exactly when the codes restricting nudity were put in place but this movie was made before that date. It started sometime in the 1930's.
best movie i ever saw by the man who made godfather me thinks coppola made this? To freakin lazy to google it, hence me here watching this gem almost feel like gerkin the gerkin during the scary? parts!!! lol
Bizarre and funny!
afraid to see doctors now..been watching way too many spook movies..honest.. i best cut back...heh
Weird!!!
What’s wrong with the dark haired girl’s voice? She sounds like Minnie Mouse
31:59 cat scene.
Is that the same one and only Phyllis Diller with the crazy hair and 😆 She really did have talent 👀 gotta love her💜
It's a different person
@@jacobschweitzer1068 I just chequed it out and it is Phyllis Diller from the film maniac 1934
@@paulcaron400 different Phyllis Diller
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The girl at the ironing board had a voice that would have been great in the cartoons of the day. Terrible acting , but the movie was really good!!
Probably the worst acting I've watched in a 30's movie. And the man with the cats seems as every bit as a psycho too, yet he's just supposed to be what? Quirky?
❤️
The first bad movie in the world.
Nudity in a 1930's movie? Where was the Hays Office to stop that?
Pre code
1934
The cat scene...Eeuu
The doctor looks a lot like Jim Backus with a fake beard. It's not though.
Phyllis Diller is in this??!!
Yes, but not the Phyllis Diller you're thinking of.
ONE OF THE LADIES IN LINGERIE AT POINT 35:00 WHO WANTED BATH WATER FIRST INDEED IS THE YOUNG PHYLLIS DILLER OF FAME
@@richardburriesci7723No
@@richardburriesci7723Wrong. The one of whom you're thinking was only 17 at the time.
A horror movie without the swear words...or blood and guts. Much better than the ones that came out later.
the ones later were good too actually,the current horror movies are bad compared to 1920-70s,80s,90s
Phyliss DILLER!!
Who composed the opening theme?
Tchaikovsky. It's from his 6th symphony.
Ruined by all the commercials
start at about 36 minutes.
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Holy mackerel. It actually is worse than Ed Wood!
This movie is on the list of worst movies.
NOPE.
Frankly the acting in the low-budget movies from back in the day are much better acted than the A-movies. Far more naturalistic and true to life, and they date better. Still a piece of crap though, as even the best movies today will look 50 years from now.
31:55
Feeling Goodbye Not Sleep
Ugh. Disgusting movie and the whole cat skinning business is repulsive. Won't finish it.
It is a pretty grisly scene, and this is a pretty terrible movie.
Though, it wasn't the same cat, if you look closely. It's generally believed a one-eyed (gray) cat with a glass eye was used. A stupid scene, regardless, but a faked scene.
And even back in its heyday, this was considered a pretty bad movie. But the risqué Pre-Code aspect was always the draw to these B-movies.
Sudden Kill Yeah Sleepings
Cu sonor
known as one of the worst movies of all time... classic
Who the hell thinks it’s ok to put a movie on CZcams where a guy strangles a cat.
So what?😂
So call PETA. 😾😿🙀😽😼😻😹😸😺
Completely uncredited psychiatric nonsense. Full of pseudoscience of the 1920s. Magnificent schlock
Haha what tipped you off mate? I thought this was a documentary from MIT! Stunning deduction!