Maniac / 1934

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.

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.

Bill Woods as Don Maxwell
Horace B. Carpenter as Dr. Meirschultz
Ted Edwards as Buckley
Phyllis Diller as Mrs. Buckley
Thea Ramsey as Alice Maxwell
Jenny Dark as Maizie
Marvel Andre as Marvel
Celia McCann as Jo
John P. Wade as Embalmer
Marian Blackton as Neighbor