
Maniac
He menaced women with weird desires!
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Release Date
9/11/1934Runtime
51 minsGenres
Overview
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
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EnglishBudget
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A grimy, delirious pre-code horror that lurches between exploitation and grotesque dark comedy, following a vaudeville drifter's descent into murder and impersonation in a mad scientist's laboratory.
Mood
UnsettlingDread-soakedAbsurd
Themes
IdentityObsessionCrime
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Frenetic
Look
High-contrastPractical effects
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceSexual violence
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