MANIAC Hammer’s 1963 horror thriller – free on YouTube

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‘White-hot terror! Cold, clammy fear!’
Maniac is a 1963 psychological thriller about an American painter who has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from prison for the criminally insane. Also known as The Maniac

Directed by Michael Carreras from a screenplay by producer Jimmy Sangster.

The for Hammer Film Productions movie stars Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse (Paranoiac), George Pastell, Arnold Diamond, Norman Bird, Justine Lord and Jerold Wells.

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Plot:
Vacationing American artist Jeff Farrell (Kerwin Matthews) becomes romantically involved with an older woman, Eve Beynat (Nadia Gray), in southern France while holding some attraction for her teenage stepdaughter Annette (Liliane Brousse).

Eve’s husband/Annette’s father Georges is in an asylum for, four years ago, using a blowtorch to kill a man who had raped Annette. Believing it will help make Eve his for life, Jeff agrees to assist her in springing Georges from the asylum. Of course, Eve has a completely different agenda in mind…

Cast and characters:
Kerwin Mathews … Jeff Farrell; Nadia Gray … Eve Beynat; Donald Houston … Henri; Liliane Brousse … Annette Beynat; George Pastell … Inspector Etienne; Arnold Diamond … Janiello; Norman Bird … Salon; Justine Lord … Grace; Jerold Wells … Giles; Leon Peers … Blanchard; André Maranne … Salon

Filming locations:
Montfrin, Gard, France (Eve and Jeff meet at the WWI memorial)
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (Roman amphitheatre)
Les Baux-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (quarry)
Camargue, France
MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England (studio)

Notes:
Filmed in May and June 1962. Filmed in black and white and “MegaScope”.

Censorship:
When originally released theatrically in the UK, the BBFC made cuts to secure a ‘X’ rating. All cuts were waived in 2017 when the film was granted a ’12’ certificate for home video.

Trailer:

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