KFEB 1102: Maniac (1934)
April 2, 2020
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It’s time to Enter the Octagon with season 11! This season, each of the guys brings 2 season themes and all 8 movies will battle it out to be the theme of season 12! The theme this episode is Budget Boogaloo and the film is Maniac (also called Sex Maniac) from 1934!
Don Maxwell is an ex-vaudeville ham, wanted by police, who has now found himself as the unlikely assistant to Dr. Meirschultz, a mad scientist in the business of reanimating corpses. Maxwell’s gift of impersonation gets him and Meirschultz past the guards and into a morgue where they use a special serum to revive the corpse of a pretty young woman. But that’s nothing. Dr. Meirschultz has a heart beating in a jar of solution and is eager to put it into a corpse that really needs it.
Meirschultz gives his assistant a gun and advises him to commit suicide, so that he can put the heart in him, but Maxwell shoots and kills the scientist instead and hides the body. Maxwell dons eyeglasses and a fake beard to become h
is onetime benefactor. The trouble is, he impersonates the mad doctor too well and goes crazy himself.
As always, the KFEB hosts provide ratings for the films that are based on the fun, enjoyment, and craziness of the film. These scores are tabulated and an on-going grid will keep you up to date with the search.
So sit back and enjoy the laughs as KFEB tries to sort out one maniac from another and ponders if these are the oldest breasts ever seen on the podcast films.
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