{"product_id":"738329267698","title":"Maniac (Forbidden Fruit: Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 17) (Blu-ray)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo perverse that it continues to shock and offend viewers 90 years after its release, Dwain Esper’s Maniac is a deranged retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” in the guise of an educational film on mental illness. This no-budget thriller by self-taught filmmakers has a wildly fragmented style. Its intrusive use of title scrolls, stock footage, and gratuitous nudity make it one of the first true underground films (with a gruesome wink at the eyeball-slicing scene of Un chien andalou). Maniac is presented here in a new restoration, from the original camera negative and other 35mm elements preserved by the UCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive, and is presented in cooperation with Something Weird and the Sonney Amusement Enterprises Film Collection. Four true crime short films by Dwain Esper and Louis Sonney: You Can't Beat the Rap, The Last Hour of Killer Mears, The March of Crime, and The March of Crime (2nd Ed.) | Audio interview with Dwain Esper and Hildagarde Stadie (1982) courtesy of Mark Woods, Jr. | Audio commentary by Bret Wood (1999), author of Marihuana, Motherhood \u0026amp; Madness | Original theatrical trailer | 2024 Re-release trailer | Trailers for Dwain Esper's Narcotic (1933) and Marihuana: Weed With Roots in Hell (1936)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinema 1 Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44872112668751,"sku":"738329267698","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/2787\/5407\/files\/maniac-forbiddenfruit-vol17-bluray_a03be155-8fb3-433a-a044-d01cc4fdf22c.jpg?v=1773777860","url":"https:\/\/cinema1.ca\/products\/738329267698","provider":"Cinema 1 Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}