This Day in Halloween: Karl Freund's cult classic "Mad Love" -- starring Peter Lorre -- opens across the U.S. in 1935. / Illustration by Laura Peyton Maurer
Mad Love opens across the U.S. in 1935. Based on Maurice Renard’s novel The Hands of Orlac, and directed by Dracula cinematographer Karl Freund, Peter Lorre stars as an obsessed mad doctor, and though not successful at the time, Lorre’s performance helps the film become a cult classic.
