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. <br /> <br />The film, which was advertised with the tagline "He menaced women with his weird desires!", is in the public domain. A restored version was made available in 1999, as part of a double feature with another Dwain Esper film, Narcotic! (1933). A full length RiffTrax for the movie was released on November 25, 2009, with commentary by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. <br /> <br /> Bill Woods as Don Maxwell <br /> Horace B. Carpenter as Dr. Meirschultz <br /> Ted Edwards as Buckley <br /> Phyllis Diller as Mrs. Buckley <br /> Thea Ramsey as Alice Maxwell <br /> Jenny Dark as Maizie <br /> Marvel Andre as Marvel <br /> Celia McCann as Jo <br /> John P. Wade as Embalmer <br /> Marian Blackton as Neighbor
