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This double-feature DVD features 2 early 1930’s exploitation films from Dwain Esper. Although maybe tame by today’s standards, impartial try to imagine seeing people shoot up heroin in a movie wait on in the 30’s! It’s all very high camp now, of course, and if you like antique sleaze, this may be your thing. Esper was definitely no Kubrick, but he has his acquire uncommon and absurd style…inserting shots that have no point, suddenly cutting away to expose animals fighting each other, superimposing stock footage, etc. Could he be the precursor to Ed Wood? Anyway, some highlights of the 2 films include a steady shot of a cesarian birth of a baby, a snake eating another snake, a cat’s eyeball poked out (and then eaten by the maniac), a couple of loyal sideshow freaks, some brief nudity as a psycho carries off a woman to ravish her, and of course lots of over-the-top acting. Both movies tried to net around the censoring codes of the time by pretending to have a message (narcotics are dreadful), but the movies are strictly exploitative. The prints faded for this DVD are scratchy and have some jumps here and there, but considering the age and that no major studio was leisurely these films, this may be the best materials available. Also on the DVD is the trailer for “Maniac”, some letters from the censor at the time, an excerpt from a mute italian film “Maciste in Hell” that footage was superimposed in “Maniac”, and audio commentary by an author-expert on Esper and such films. A superb capture if you like stuff like “Reefer Madness”, etc., but don’t put a question to any scalpings in “Maniac” —it’s actually a loose re-telling of “The Sad Cat”.
Forget the rest…This is the best available version of Dwain Esper’s MANIAC on DVD.
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KINO presents this exploitation shocker in a print from the UCLA Film and Television Archive that puts other DVD versions to shame. Not to say that this is material agreeable of The Criterion Collection, but you’ll not catch a better version of Dwain Esper’s bent rob on “The Sunless Cat” on DVD.
Dwain Esper was later known for distributing MGM’s “FREAKS” after the studio shelved their hold product out of embarrassment. Never one to fearful away from exploiting material to obtain a buck, Esper added the ” Special Attraction” prologue that now exists on most prints and made a itsy-bitsy fortune distributing the film.
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Complete with inserts from the calm film MACISTE IN HELL traditional to suggest madness, wax heads of famed executed criminals under the main title, women dueling with hypodermic needles in a cellar, brief nudity, body snatching from a morgue and suggested animal cruelty, MANIAC is Esper’s best known claim to fame and must be seen to be believed.
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