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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.A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
Horace B. Carpenter
- Dr. Meirschultz
- (as Horace Carpenter)
Thea Ramsey
- Alice Maxwell
- (as Theo Ramsey)
Marvelle Andre
- Marvel
- (as Marvel Andre)
John P. Wade
- Embalmer
- (as J.P. Wade)
Marian Constance Blackton
- Neighbor
- (as Marion Blackton)
Umberto Guarracino
- Pluto
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Bartolomeo Pagano
- Maciste
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Satan
- Satan the Cat
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaSeveral key cast members in the film are uncredited and their identities remain unknown, most notably the cat-farming neighbor, "Goof", as well as the detective, the skinny morgue attendant, and Maria Altura, the woman who Dr. Meirschultz brings back to life. The identity of the actress who doubles for Altura for scenes that require nudity has also not been identified.
- GoofsWhen 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)
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This film has no cohesive story, go figure it's an exploitation film, and as a true exploitation film it provides an abundance of spectacle. Maniac is about a......well a maniac. Throughout the film intertitles appear that define aberrant mental states (dementia, praecox, paranoia, etc..). Spectacle is furnished scenes such as a man popping a cats eye out of it's head and eating it, two women lounge about in their underwear, two women fighting with syringes!! Finally the last two scenes are nudie strip scenes, and are inserted for titillation sake only! Suicide recovery, cat chasing mouses, mad scientists, and a guy ranting "rats eat raw meat--you know, cat carcasses...so the rats eat the cats, the cats eat the rats, and I get the skins", are all part of this disjointed viewing experience everyone should see!!
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- Budget
- $5,000 (estimated)
- Runtime51 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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