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Demented N Not bad could of been Better more like one of the more graphic Columbos (The one starting Rue from the Golden Girls) I couldn't help feel that any second Dick Van Dyke was gonna pop up and solve the mystery from diagnosis murder. The movie isn't really slow from the word go it's cooking, but the writer and director seem to know what to do when suspenseful things are happening, but haven't got a clue how to write or direct genrel chit chat conversations. All in all it's not a bad movie I just wouldn't watch it again anytime soon,. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Here's a fairly lame attempt at an 'erotic thriller' which wastes an exceptional turn by Bruce Dern as tattoo artist Karl Kinsky, who sees his occupation less as a career than as a spiritual calling. Maud Adams is Maddy, the air-headed supermodel who inexplicably becomes the object of his hopeless, sexually-stunted desire; Adams has precisely 1/100th the talent and conviction of Dern, and consequently watching her suffer at his hands is painful for all the wrong reasons. Essentially Karl wants to cover her body with his 'mark' (elaborate tattoo work) so that she'll stay with him forever. You see, Karl has some strange ideas about women which straddle the line between oafish servitude and sexual sadism. The way the film unfolds the mystery of his character is a betrayal of Dern's fine and nuanced performance, since the script doesn't have much intelligence built into its design. The screenplay by Joyce Buñuel, daughter-in-law (!) of the great Luis Buñuel takes none of the master's delight in human perversity, instead settling for leering sensationalism and by-the-numbers suspense film clichés. Director Bob Brooks knows how to use his camera to create striking images, but there's only so much a well-placed set of female breasts can convey before the script needs to kick in with some valuable subtext. And as I mentioned before (and feel obliged to mention again), Adams's failure to register even a single believable emotion doesn't help the film's cause. One wonders what might have been if Brooks and Buñuel had taken a more challenging route with their story rather than serving up De Palma-Lite. Unfortunately, this is a deeply stupid movie that doesn't even succeed as camp. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow-moving, overacted and overwrought. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Despite Bruce Dern's fine performance, the plot has quite a few holes, and ends up being a hollow genre exercise rather than a fully realized story. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A mentally ill tattoo artist kidnaps a model to create his masterpiece on her body. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Haha it's one of those films, isn't it ... you either love it or hate it. I saw it a couple of times when I was at school and I still remember it 'til today. Maud Adams was gorgeous in it ... and like Pamela De Graff said ... it was an 80s pre-cursor to Boxing Helena. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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