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Ladies and gentlemen, the search is over. I have discovered the worst film ever made. This atrocity from 1934 is only 51 minutes long, but there is so, so distinguished to talk about I hardly know where to inaugurate. The sheer impossibility of this film actually makes it distinguished, however. Maniac is essentially the grand-daddy of all exploitation movies, but this goes design beyond simple exploitation. It is paramount that we place the blame for this movie where it is due: producer/director Dwayne Esper. palmed this film off as an right glimpse of mental illness-throughout the movie, we are occasionally presented with set cards detailing the types of mental illness our educational movie is about to illustrate. I can’t gain this was actually released in the 1930s; there’s even some partial nudity in this thing (though, of course, no peep of the heinous belly button forbade by the immoral Hayes Code) . Apparently, Esper made his educational entertainment films outside of Hollywood and thus avoided the type of censorship being practiced in Tinsel Town.
The movie begins in the lab of Dr. Meirshultz (Horace Carpenter), a indignant scientist obsessed with restoring life to corpses. He needs a lifeless body, of course, and he orders his assistant Don Maxwell (Bill Woods) to find him into the morgue. Maxwell is a feeble vaudeville entertainer and impersonator, so he passes himself off as the coroner and gets the valid doctor inside the morgue (somehow fooling two incompetent and quite possibly inebriated morgue workers) . Doc gives the lucky, female stiff a couple of jabs from his enormous hypo, and after a few minutes of intense arm rubbing, she begins to walk. The boys accelerate home gleefully with their prize. Not inform to reanimate one measly corpse in one day, Meirshultz now insists on reanimating someone with a “shattered” heart. Did I mention that we are treated with random scenes of dogs, cats, and mice running around attacking each other throughout the film? Anyway, a couple of fighting cats awe Maxwell out of the undertaker’s office, and he runs all the draw home. Doc is angry that he failed him and naturally comes up with the notion of using Maxwell as the victim whom he will revive with his pulsating artificial heart in a jar. Rather than shoot him himself, he gives the gun to Maxwell and gives him the fantastic opportunity of killing himself in the name of science. Guess who ends up with a bullet in him? Maxwell now comes up with the plan of impersonating the doctor and almost immediately finds a patient at his door. Mrs. Buckley (played by Phyllis Diller, but not THAT Phyllis Diller) has brought in her husband for further treatment. Mr. Buckley (Ted Edwards) thinks he is the orangutan from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Maxwell decides to give him a shot filled with water to accumulate rid of him but accidentally jabs him with the mountainous enormous hypo of super-adrenaline. It is at this point that you should stay the movie, call your friends, and prepare yourself for one of the most unforgettably over the top, hammiest scenes ever filmed-you have to gaze it to possess it, and even then you might not fill it. Eventually, Buckley grabs the newly reanimated young lady, runs off into the night with her (actually, it’s a completely different actress than we saw before, but you’re not supposed to glance), rips off her gown, and presumably doesn’t halt there.
Back to the lab: Maxwell decides he must revive Dr. Meirshultz, but the darned cat eats the artificial heart. It is about this time that Maxwell starts jabbering on and on about “the gleam” and commences to bag fill of Satan (that’s the cat’s name) and pop one of his eyes out-yes, I know this is rather spoiled, but rest assured that the prop customary not only doesn’t eye like a precise cat, it is not even the same color as Satan) . Now, I know you’re wondering: does he eat the cat eyeball? Well, of course he does; this movie is called Maniac for a reason. He’s collected got this lifeless body to dispose of, so he takes it down in the basement and exploits another one of Poe’s short stories by bricking up the corpse. Now things open to score peculiar. We are suddenly taken to a hotel room elephantine of four young women prancing around in their skivvies. One of these is Maxwell’s wife, we learn, and she reads in the newspaper that her estranged husband has objective inherited gobs of money. Naturally, she suddenly yearns to be reconciled with her dear sweet hubby. Eventually, we ruin up with Mrs. Maxwell and Mrs. Buckley locked up in the basement in a bonafide knock-down, drag-out catfight while Maxwell continues to prove every facet of mental illness upstairs. The police eventually near and finally succeed at ending this unpleasant movie.
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I wish I could drawl you more in the situation of this review; I serve you to do some Internet searches and read some of the detailed (and hilarious) information cult movie fans have written about this strong contender for worst movie ever made. I am really in a dilemma when it comes to giving this movie a rating. It more than deserves the lowest rating possible because it is truly an unfriendly movie, yet it is so odd and improbable (especially for its time) that it has become a cult classic that lovers of atrociously awful cinema, particularly of the dread variety, simply must experience. Quite reluctantly, I’m giving it five stars for having gone where no dreadful movie has gone before, but please impress my warning-if you don’t cherish poor dismay movies, you will absolutely loathe this film.
This one truly is an unforgettable mishmash… really delectable terrible film with lots of laughs in the store for the one who dares. But: this release as depicted above (red cloak) is using incredibly terrible source material. Amazon.com also sells another version: Navarre Corporation/Reel Values Triple Feature Fear Classics Volume 9 (wow! sounds like a British address!) features The Maniac which looks mighty better. It’s almost as cheap, but it comes with two other flicks which are mediocre but quite watchable. Recommended!
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