Maniac -AKA Sex 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. All those nasty things people really wanted to see in the deadening 1930s: child birth, heroin addiction, eyeballs popping out of cats’ heads.
