Deranged

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Ray L @RT17291655 May 1 I enjoyed this film I'm a little bit surprised but it was pretty good for a low budget 1970s film See more matthew d @Gooseo 10/28/2023 Its Forrest Gump meets House of Wax. The music consisted of the same church hymn on endless repeat (budget cuts i guess) But that extra money mustve been embezzled as no other aspect of the movie was good. Most of the screen time goes to a very irritating loathsome man you desperately want to hit after the 1st scene. Oh the killer tells the other guy hes killing and he doesn't stop to consider just once hes not kidding? Uh ya ok. See more 03/24/2019 In terms of 70s low-budget exploitation horror flicks, this one is actually good. It shifts from very sad to a vile and, indeed deranged, film, with rotting corpses and cheap looking blood. But what's even more disturbing about this pic is that it inspires itself a lot from the real life Ed Gein. The pacing can be a problem, being unequal, but it's made up for with shocking moments, and the music is also good. Overall, this is a creepy and interesting little film. Recommended!! See more 02/26/2019 This is from the era of video nasties. It's one of the least talked about horror movies and that's unfortunate. There are issues mostly in the pacing. However you get a villain who is truly demented and the story isn't afraid to show the audiences that side of the story. See more delysid d @RT67044741 09/01/2017 I enjoyed this strange and creepy film See more 05/07/2017 Weird low budget AIP retelling of the Ed Gein case, though Roberts Blossom's serial killer character here has been renamed Ezra Cobb (Gein was actually still alive when this film was made). If you're not families with the Gein case, it's the same case that inspired "Psycho" (Gein dug up and taxidermied his mother) and also "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (Gein used human bones for bowls and decorations and made masks from female victims' skin, among other even worse of horrors). If the word deranged describes anyone, Gein would be it. This movie version takes a docudrama approach that doesn't really work, although Blossom's performance, despite a terrible script and dialogue, manages to make Ezra Cobb a compelling character and very nearly elevates this film above B-picture drive-in camp. And although the film is for the most part amateurishly made, it does have some moments that are truly chilling, such as (SPOILER ALERT!) when a woman discovers his Era's room of corpses and him dressed in a woman's skin, or the film's finale when the authorities find Cobb eating a very bloody dinner at his dinner table. Overall, this is a poorly made film, but Blossoms, who for a majority of his career was relegated to supporting parts, gives a very strong performance that transcends the many many weak points of the film. See more Read all reviews

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