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Maniac (1934): The glint of light from a knife in a dark alley is the first we see of depraved serial killer Lockheart. From there it is a race against time as the police attempt to stop him before he kills again...and again...and again. |
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Maniac (1934): "Do you have to run up and down the hall like a maniac?" queries Grandma. 23-year-old Julie explains that, yes, she is in fact required to do so -- under the terms of a contract she has recently been awarded as a freelance hall-runner. Grandma eyeballs the contract, notes the repeated use of the word "maniac" in legally-binding clauses, and is forced to admit that any attempt to interfere with this activity could risk putting Julie in an untenable position. In a pathetic attempt to save face, Grandma tries to show how smart she is by insisting that Julie could have held out for more residuals. |
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Maniac (1934): Chester Wilberforce is "mad" for the girls and can't help asking them out but he bites off more than he can chew when he sets up three dates for the same time. As he runs back and forth trying to keep Betty, Maria and Susie from becoming suspicious he encounters a series of obstacles - a stray dog, mud puddles, a lady with a high stack of packages, a coal delivery van - and his appearance gets wilder and more dishevelled. But his explanations for this get more and more farfetched until at last all three women follow him and confront him - at which point a policeman arrives to investigate reports of a "maniac" running around causing trouble. Sitting in his cell at the end, Chester swears off women for good - until, looking through his cell window, he spies a pretty girl. Here we go again... |
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Maniac (1934): Samson, a burly black man, develops a burning obsession with the white women of Havensburg, Alabama. After he assaults several women the townspeople band together to rid their town of the menace, eventually burning down Samson's shack with him in it. This blatant piece of pro-white propaganda enjoyed only local distribution in the South as national distributors refused to touch it. |
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Maniac (1934): An ex-vaudeville actor is the assistant to a doctor with Frankenstein aspirations. After murdering the doctor, the would-be actor finds it necessary to assume the identity of the dead physician. Edgar Allen Poe's THE BLACK CAT is written into the storyline. |
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Maniac (1934): A late silent Expressionist film in the style of Fritz Lang, in which we follow a mild-mattered filing clerk in his descent into madness and murder. |
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None of the synopses above could possibly be legitimate! |
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I give up! What is the answer? |
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