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Maniac

  • 1934
  • Not Rated
  • 51 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
3,7/10
2,8 mil
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Maniac (1934)
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B-HorrorHorror corporalTerror psicológicoFicção científicaHorror

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.

  • Direção
    • Dwain Esper
  • Roteirista
    • Hildegarde Stadie
  • Artistas
    • Bill Woods
    • Horace B. Carpenter
    • Ted Edwards
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    3,7/10
    2,8 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Dwain Esper
    • Roteirista
      • Hildegarde Stadie
    • Artistas
      • Bill Woods
      • Horace B. Carpenter
      • Ted Edwards
    • 86Avaliações de usuários
    • 41Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Maniac (1934)
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    Bill Woods
    • Maxwell
    Horace B. Carpenter
    Horace B. Carpenter
    • Dr. Meirschultz
    • (as Horace Carpenter)
    Ted Edwards
    • Buckley
    Phyllis Diller
    • Mrs. Buckley
    Thea Ramsey
    • Alice Maxwell
    • (as Theo Ramsey)
    Jenny Dark
    • Maizie
    Marvelle Andre
    • Marvel
    • (as Marvel Andre)
    Celia McCann
    • Jo
    John P. Wade
    • Embalmer
    • (as J.P. Wade)
    Marian Constance Blackton
    Marian Constance Blackton
    • Neighbor
    • (as Marion Blackton)
    Umberto Guarracino
    • Pluto
    • (cenas de arquivo)
    • (não creditado)
    Bartolomeo Pagano
    Bartolomeo Pagano
    • Maciste
    • (cenas de arquivo)
    • (não creditado)
    Satan
    • Satan the Cat
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • Dwain Esper
    • Roteirista
      • Hildegarde Stadie
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    Avaliações de usuários86

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    jbacks3

    Blazing a Trail for Ed Wood...

    I'd venture to guess that HBO could come up with a decent series about gypsy movie producers skirting the Hays Office of the 1930's... guys like Dwain Esper running all over Depression-Era America showing T&A "sex education" flicks in fraternal lodges and burlesque houses... it's just too bad that the movies they made stink (maybe that's their appeal). MANIAC is patently awful... Framed within chapters straight out of a pre-war DSM manual, MANIAC has so much to mention, all of it bad. Bill Woods is deserves particular notice for his relentless over- errh, I hate to call it 'acting' but in the Land of Hams, he would be King of Pork. Rivaling Woods is the uniquely bad Horace B. Carpenter. Everything in MANIAC screams for something better. Actresses appear and vanish (and in one case change altogether) for no discernible reason (although I suspect one probably balked at being topless). There's a couple of gratuitous topless shots--- one of which makes absolutely no sense and Esper has spliced in some (probably, no undoubtedly better) silent movie into the scene where Maxwell goes nutzoid at the end. THE INTERESTING THING: The "cinematographer" William C. Thompson deserves special notice: his work REALLY sucks. Camera movements are terrible, the lighting is horrible and there's a jerky feeling in every scene (lots of shots of cats and rats)... but wait! Thompson would later go on to become ED WOOD'S cinematographer (look... goosebumps!) and would obviously never truly get any real grip on his craft. I suspect Thompson was played by the ubiquitous Norman Alden in Tim Burton's homage to the antithesis of cinematic greatness, 1994's ED WOOD (4-stars!), but his character is unnamed. MANIAC has historic interest as a footnote showing how stupid an independent producer/director could get with a camera and what looks like a $400 budget. Rumor has it that Esper was a prosperous slumlord who obtained an abandoned movie camera and editing equipment from a tenant. Esper must've turned a buck on these things because he was able to keep grinding them out... but Maniac makes the worst drivel spewed out by Educational Films and PRC look like art. NO STARS!
    winner55

    only fun when it's cheap

    All right, I admit that "Reefer Madness" had continuity one could follow; but after you lose interest in 'counter-culture' naughtiness, that movie does get a little dull quite often.

    The thing I like about "Maniac" is that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Although narrative bits and pieces are borrowed from mainstream horror films of that era, and of course from the stories of Edgar Allen Poe, they're never actually woven together in any coherent manner. Nor is there any relationship established between these and the recurrent dictionary definitions of various psychoses that appear on title cards with syrupy strings playing in the background.

    And of course none of it's believable in anyway - especially the make-up when the killer 'disguises' himself as the mad scientist.

    However, I will say that the pacing here is swift, the dialog hilarious, the acting overwrought to the point of pure self-parody, and, after all, folks - it's only 51 minutes.

    And it only cost me $2 - one just has to do one's shopping more carefully.
    4ReelCheese

    In The Tradition Of Awful Movies...

    In the tradition of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, this turkey manages to earn four stars because it's so utterly, completely, bizarrely and amazingly awful. After murdering his boss, a doctor, an aspiring actor uses makeup to take his place. The rest of the movie is pretty much incomprehensible as the fake doc goes berserk. Women catfight with syringes, a topless woman is kidnapped and, most famously, our protagonist, for reasons known only to him, pops out and eagerly consumes a cat's eye.

    One presumes that MANIAC, to some degree at least, was supposed to be this bad. It was released in 1934 as a "roadshow" movie, meaning perpetrators of what was then intolerable filth traveled from one town to the next with its reel, showing it in shady burlesque houses. By today's standards, it's probably not even an "R" film; other than the brief nudity, it's extremely tame. MANIAC will appeal to fans of terrible movies. In fact, this may very well be the very first "good bad" flick. It will also interest those curious to see what was deemed as immoral artistic expression all those years ago.
    TonyDood

    You haven't seen it all

    The longer I live the more surprising things I see. Here's a movie from the '30's that has bare boobs, gore and a shot of a man popping a cat's eye out. I don't know if it was real--the cat didn't seem to mind much so I doubt it was.

    This has the feel of an Ed Wood exploitation opus--all over the place story-wise (a guy impersonates a mad doctor to promote his own mad ideas and a lot of people aren't thrilled with it, and some end up dead). It's clearly an exploitation film--it takes place in one room and plot is forsaken in favor of grisly ideas and action, deception, slutty women and over-the-top acting. Like many movies from this era it's too slow and grainy for most people to enjoy and certainly too poorly made to recommend, and the rewards are slim. I'd keep the fast-forward handy and the alcohol too--the title placards that try to legitimize the movie by suggesting it's an essay on different forms of madness is pointless and irritating, really.

    The best news is that it's short and there's more action than talking--too bad more movies aren't like that these days. Oh, and there's the oddity of an actress named "Phyllis Diller" being in it, no relation to the wild-haired 60's stand-up comic, of course.
    1jimtinder

    Wow. What can I say?

    In the 1980s, thanks to the Brothers Medved, "Plan 9" earned the reputation as the worst film of all time. In the 1990s, thanks to MST3K, "Manos, the Hands of Fate" earned the worst film moniker.

    Allow me to submit the film "Maniac" as the very worst. This film is so wretched, so fallible, so awful, it's impossible not to have an opinion about it.

    "Maniac" is a film of almost no reputation. However, cult film critic Danny Peary called it the very worst. It's easy to see why. "Maniac" has almost no frame of film that is expertly produced. The film is grainy, shots are poorly executed, actors are rendered unseeable by being filmed standing behind test tubes.

    "Maniac" easily has the worst acting in any film, from any time, any country. Overacting must have been a prerequisite to being hired for this film. Everyone talks in such an imposing, declaratory style, you'd think you were watching a session of Congress. At least "Plan 9" has professional actors such as Lyle Talbot; at least "Manos" has interesting characterizations. "Maniac" cannot boast any of that, except that actor Horace Carpenter once worked at Biograph with D.W. Griffith. What a comedown for him to be in this film.

    Don't get me wrong; the film is a hoot to watch. From the incredible cat's eye scene to the cat fighting to the women fighting with syringes, "Maniac" has it all.

    This film, made in 1934, may surprise people with its brief nude scenes. But it was a "roadshow" movie, so it's not really surprising at all. This was the kind of movie that could only be seen in burlesque houses or tent shows. Often, a promoter would put ads about the movie in the local papers, gaining huge interest in the film. The promoter would pitch a tent on the outskirts of town for the screening of the film. The promoter all too often would have to fold the tent and get out of town quickly, trying to avoid local authorities and local moral laws.

    Do yourself, do your family, do your community a favor. Rent "Maniac" and see if you don't agree it's the worst ever.

    You'll howl, you'll cry, you'll kiss your rental money goodbye!

    See! Incredible eye-popping scenes! See! A bevy of chorus beauties! See! Mad scientists go even madder! See! How long you can stand watching it!

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    • Curiosidades
      Several key cast members are uncredited, and their identities remain unknown, most notably "Goof" the cat-hoarding neighbor, the detective, the skinny morgue attendant, Maria Altura (who Dr. Meirschultz brings back to life), and Altura's body double (for scenes requiring nudity).
    • Erros de gravação
      When Maxwell drags Dr. Meirshultz down the basement stairs, they are both wearing Dr. Meirshultz' glasses, even though they only had one pair of glasses to begin with.
    • Citações

      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!

    • Conexões
      Featured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      La Cucaracha
      (uncredited)

      Written by Pica Pica

      Traditional

      Sung by Thea Ramsey

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 11 de setembro de 1934 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Sex Maniac
    • Locações de filme
      • Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA
    • Empresa de produção
      • Roadshow Attractions
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    • Orçamento
      • US$ 5.000 (estimativa)
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    • Tempo de duração
      • 51 min
    • Cor
      • Black and White
    • Mixagem de som
      • Mono
    • Proporção
      • 1.37 : 1

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