Review of Mania

Mania (1974)
5/10
Trashiest trash of the Trash Kingdom
30 September 2021
Gone is the Polselli of the elegant vampire features of the early sixties. Welcome AKA Ralph Brown, a sloppy director who misplaces his actresses behind the hanging cables and furniture, as if to show his contempt to proper filmmaking (or bad acting). This one screams TRASH at every possible moment - just as the heroine Eva Spadaro does. She just screams, screams some more, then laughs hysterically, until she screams. Strangely enough she didn't become the new Scream Queen of the screen - Eva Spadaro is seen here in her only film role and basic internet search doesn't render any information about who she was or what became of her.

The film is a complete mismash - mad scientists, evil twins, torture chambers and, of course, a mandatory and totally unmotivated lesbian struggle which might easily be one of the worst of its kind on the silver screen.

Altogether, if you haven't yet guessed it, it's great fun to watch and giggle!
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