This Day in Halloween: Cult classic "Mad Love" -- starring Peter Lorre as a mad doctor -- opens across the U.S. in 1935. / Illustration by Deanna Lim
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.
