Product Description: So perverse that it continues to shock and offend viewers 90 years after its release, Dwain Esper’s Maniac is a deranged retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” in the guise of an educational film on mental illness. This no-budget thriller by self-taught filmmakers has a wildly fragmented style. Its intrusive use of title scrolls, stock footage, and gratuitous nudity make it one of the first true underground films (with a gruesome wink at the eyeball-slicing scene of Un chien andalou). Maniac is presented here in a new 4K restoration, from the original camera negative and other 35mm elements preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and is presented in cooperation with Something Weird and the Sonney Amusement Enterprises Film Collection.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: Dwain Esper
Starring: Horace Carpenter, Bill Woods, Thea Ramsey, Ted Edwards
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 52 min
Rating: Not Rated
Language: English
Studio: Kino Lorber
Home Video Release Date: November 12, 2024
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- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
- Region: Region A/1
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- Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
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SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS
JUMP BACK TO TOP- Audio interview with director Dwain Esper and screenwriter Hildagarde Esper
- The true crime short films of Dwain Esper and Louis Sonney: You Can't Beat the Rap, The Last Hour of Killer Mears, The March of Crime, and The March of Crime (2nd Ed.)
- Audio commentary by Bret Wood, author of Marihuana, Motherhood, and Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper
- Original theatrical trailer
- 2024 Re-release trailer
- Trailers for Dwain Esper's The Seventh Commandment, Narcotic, and Marihuana: Weed With Roots in Hell
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