Maniac, 1934 film
Maniac, also known as Sex Maniac, is a 1934 black-and-white exploitation/horror film, directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper’s wife, as a loose adaptation of the 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. The film, which was advertised… Read more →