MANIAC(1934)
In the sets: 100 Greatest Terror Classics;
Mad Scientist Theater

A madman scientist(is there any other kind?) is
experimenting with a serum to bring the dead back
to life!! He plans to use his serum on a woman
who committed suicide! But before he can, he gets
offed! The acting is really bad!! Believe it or
not, this 1934 film had nudity in it!! C+

From a reviewer from IMDb.com:

"Maniac" is aka "Sex Maniac" and why "Sex Maniac"
is beyond me because neither one of the main
characters (Don Maxwell & Dr. Meirschultz) are
sex crazy that I could tell. The film is extremely
loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat".

In all honesty I do not believe this film is supposed
to be pure horror. I think it is an early comedy-horror
film. Why? The deliberately comical looks on the
actors faces, the deliberately bad over-acting, the
deliberately bad script with lines such as: "I
think too much of Satan to use cats for experiments"
etc... it all adds up to a comedy-horror in my beliefs
and NOT a real or pure horror film.

The film is simply awful and weird but, believe it
or not, there are worse "horror" films out there
to watch. You don't believe me? The take a look
at the movie called "Monster (1980)" it is aka
"Monstroid". "Monstroid" makes "(Sex) Maniac" look
like a very artful and well done film.

Overacting? Yes this movie has it - but some of
the other older films are full of overacting as
well. It's not unusual for a films during this
time era.

Would I recommend the movie "Maniac (1934)" to
others? Only to the people looking for a terrible
horror film to watch or to those that are extremely
curious to see just how bad this film really is.

Why did I give this film 2 out of 10 stars instead
of just one star? Because I did get a couple of
giggles out of this awful flick.

2/10 - Rainey-Dawn

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