Maniac (1934) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1934 · 51 mins · English

#27,542 5

Directed by

Dwain Esper

Starring

Phyllis Diller, Ted Edwards, Horace B. Carpenter, Jenny Dark, Marvelle Andre, John P. Wade

An ex‑vaudeville actor works as the assistant to a doctor who is obsessed with creating a modern Frankenstein. After murdering the doctor, the actor assumes the dead man's identity and begins menacing women with strange desires, turning the laboratory into a nightmarish hunting ground.