Maniac

Maniac

He menaced women with weird desires!

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Release Date

9/11/1934

Runtime

51 mins

Genres

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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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

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Graphic violenceSexual violence

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