HORROR MANIACS (DVD MOVIE)

Horror Maniacs, also known as The Greed Of William Hart, was originally filmed under the title (The Crimes Of) Burke And Hare. The threat of a lawsuit by the ancestors of the notorious grave-robber William Hare forced producers to redub the soundtrack and substitute new character names. The expense of this effort was a major strain for the low-budget production and resulted in the elimination of a music soundtrack. The film was one of the last notable movies to star the deliriously hammy Tod Slaughter, an actor whose maniacal performances peaked in such macabre melodramas as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Murder In The Red Barn. Though his fame in the U.S. horror film genre was eclipsed by actors such as Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, Slaughter was well known in his native Britain as a master of menace. In Horror Maniacs, Slaughter stars alongside his real-life wife Jenny Lynn (playing the role of Helen Moore). The scriptwriter and assistant director of Horror Maniacs, John Gilling, filmed the same story ten years later as Flesh And The Fiends with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance.

Starring: Tod Slaughter
Directed by: Oswald Mitchell
Screenplay by: John Gilling

DVD Details:

• Run Time: 53 minutes
• Number of Discs: 1
• Originally Released in 1948
• Black & White
• No region encoding; For global distribution.