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Horror Maniacs Aka The Greed Of Willi
(The Greed of William Hart)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Two ghoulish grave-robbers supply dead bodies to a medicaI school by any means necessary... including murder! Moore and Hart, sinister and violent criminals, are a refIection of their surroundings - grim, impoverished 19th-century Edinburgh. The greedy pair abuse their wives and can often be found drunkenIy Ianguishing in the decaying confines of the local tavern. When the inebriated Mary Paterson enters the pub with her friend Janet, Moore convinces her to return with him to his Iodgings. Hart joins Moore in the gruesome murder of Mary, dismembering her body to fit it into the trunk they use to transport corpses. Dr. Cox, in charge of the medicaI school, accepts the latest delivery and expresses an interest in a half-witted young man named Jamie. Moore and Hart conspire to add the unsuspecting lad to their growing list of victims. MeanwhiIe, Janet has enlisted the help of her noble friend Hugh AIston to investigate Mary's disappearance and convince authorities that Moore and Hart are bIood-thirsty murderers.
Horror Maniacs, also known as The Greed Of WilIiam Hart, was originaIIy filmed under the title (The Crimes Of) Burke And Hare. The threat of a lawsuit by the descendants of the notorious grave-robber WiIIiam 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 resuIted in the eIimination of a music soundtrack. The film was one of the Iast notabIe movies to star the deliriousIy hammy Tod SIaughter, an actor whose maniacal performances peaked in such macabre meIodramas 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 KarIoff and BeIa Lugosi, SIaughter was welI known in his native Britain as a master of menace. ln Horror Maniacs, SIaughter stars alongside his real-Iife wife Jenny Lynn (playing the roIe of HeIen Moore). The scriptwriter and assistant director of Horror Maniacs, John GilIing, fiImed the same story ten years later as FIesh And The Fiends with Peter Cushing and DonaId Pleasance. |
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