Maniac / Narcotic
29,00 USD
Description
Produced outside of the studio system on virtually no budget, embracing themes that explicitly violated the Motion Picture Production Code (Hollywood's rules of good screen behavior), Dwain and Hildegarde Esper's Narcotic and Maniac are cornerstones of American independent cinema. Touted as educational treatises on drug addiction and mental illness, the films are instead sordid plunges into more varied degradations of body and spirit. Loosely based upon the life of William Davies (an opium-addic