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Maniac

Name: Maniac
Director: Dwain Esper
Released: 1934-01-01

1934 film by Dwain Esper

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Released: 1934
Director: Dwain Esper
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0025465/Retrieved 2016-04-13
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Cast: Horace B. Carpenter
, Ted Edwards
Runtime: 51 min
Genre: horror film
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0025465/Retrieved 2016-04-13
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, exploitation film
, zombie film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English

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Maniac is a 1934 American independent black-and-white exploitation horror film directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the 1843 Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat", with references to his "Murders in the Rue Morgue". Esper and Stadie also made the 1936 exploitation film Marihuana.

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Director of photography: William C. Thompson
Main subject: mad scientist
Title: Maniac
Color: black-and-white
Assessment: Bechdel test assessment outcome: passes · criterion used: considering named characters only
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1.Stated in Bechdel Test Movie ListRetrieved 2017-12-10
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Different from: Maniac
Based on: The Black Cat
Copyright status: public domain

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