Maniac (1963)
Country: GB/US
Technical: bw/Megascope 86m
Director: Michael Carreras
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Liliane Brousse, Donald Houston
Synopsis:
A bar owner ensnares an all too eager American painter holidaying in the Camargue, first with her stepdaughter then with herself, so that she can use him to get her husband out of a mental hospital.
Review:
Not, as you might think, another variation on the Taste of Fear/Diabolique scenario (though there is a revenant corpse involved), this idiotically plotted Hammer production is just another lurid erotic thriller that forgot to write believable dialogue. Houston's turn as a blow torch wielding maniac with froggie accent is the last straw. Compensations for late-night diehards are the locations, Les Baux included, and Carreras' competent direction.
Country: GB/US
Technical: bw/Megascope 86m
Director: Michael Carreras
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Liliane Brousse, Donald Houston
Synopsis:
A bar owner ensnares an all too eager American painter holidaying in the Camargue, first with her stepdaughter then with herself, so that she can use him to get her husband out of a mental hospital.
Review:
Not, as you might think, another variation on the Taste of Fear/Diabolique scenario (though there is a revenant corpse involved), this idiotically plotted Hammer production is just another lurid erotic thriller that forgot to write believable dialogue. Houston's turn as a blow torch wielding maniac with froggie accent is the last straw. Compensations for late-night diehards are the locations, Les Baux included, and Carreras' competent direction.
Country: GB/US
Technical: bw/Megascope 86m
Director: Michael Carreras
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Liliane Brousse, Donald Houston
Synopsis:
A bar owner ensnares an all too eager American painter holidaying in the Camargue, first with her stepdaughter then with herself, so that she can use him to get her husband out of a mental hospital.
Review:
Not, as you might think, another variation on the Taste of Fear/Diabolique scenario (though there is a revenant corpse involved), this idiotically plotted Hammer production is just another lurid erotic thriller that forgot to write believable dialogue. Houston's turn as a blow torch wielding maniac with froggie accent is the last straw. Compensations for late-night diehards are the locations, Les Baux included, and Carreras' competent direction.