Maniac
United Kingdom
1963
86 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
English, French
Synopsis
Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, is stranded in a cheap bar in France where he falls for Annette, the pretty daughter of the proprietor, played by Nadia Gray. Nadia Gray gradually shifts the young man’s attentions to herself, rather than her daughter, and together Matthews and Gray concoct a plot to help Gray’s estranged husband, now a homicidal maniac confined in an institution after a grisly series of killings dubbed “The Acetylene Murders” by the press, out of the mental institution so he can escape from the country. —IMDb
Director
Michael Carreras
Michael Carreras (21 December 1927, London – 19 April 1994, London) was a British film producer and director. He was best known for his association with Hammer Studios, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years.
As producer, he worked on The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Curse of the Werewolf (1960) and She (1965). He later turned his hand to directing, with The Savage Guns/Tierra brutal (1961), believed to be the first Spaghetti-western ever produced, Maniac (1963), The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964), Slave Girls (1967), The Lost Continent (1968) and Shatter (1975) among others. In 1971 he took over directing Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb after director Seth Holt died partway through filming. —Wikipedia
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