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      Disconnected

      1985 1h 21m Horror List
      Reviews 21% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score A video-store clerk (Frances Raines) drops her disc-jockey boyfriend (Carl Koch) for a stranger (Mark Walker), with a slasher on the loose. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member I'd never seen this until the Neon Brainiacs guys picked it one of our movies on the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature. Man — this is something. Directed by Gorman Bechard, this film centers around video store employee Alicia — if you love seeing classic VHS cases, this is assuredly a movie you should watch — who allows an old man into her home to use the phone and abruptly disappear. She tries to relate this story to her boyfriend Mike and her gorgeous twin sister Barbara Ann, who is definitely stealing Mike away from her. She's also being pursued by a strange man named Franklin who comes to her store despite not having a VCR. And when she gets home from the bar that night, she starts a series of prank calls that either have strange voices at the end or have Mike and her sister discussing murdering her and the affair they are having behind her back. At the same time, Detective Tremaglio is investigating a series of crimes and this section of the movie takes the form of what we'd call found footage these days, as we see the actual interrogations. If you've just read those two paragraphs and thought, "Disconnected seems to make no sense," trust me, it lives up to its name. Alicia and Franklin begin a romance — at the same time that he's murdering women and using their dead bodies for sexual pleasure — and then just when it seems like things are about to get resolved, the calls begin all over again, even after she destroys the phone, which starts bleeding. Then the old man leaves her apartment. Shot in Waterbury, Connecticut and featuring a soundtrack with XTC, The Excerpts (the band Jon Brion started in), Haysi Fantayzee and Hunters & Collectors, there really isn't a slasher — there isn't a movie — like this. Of course, Vinegar Syndrome put it out. They made some kind of deal with several dark demons to have the inside track on the rights to forgotten VHS rental movies or something. They're going to all lose their souls, but we get some great movies out of their dark deal. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member wow this was aggressively shitty and bad. This has maybe 3 good scenes at the very most and they lasted only a couple seconds. There was maybe 2 murders in this whole shitty affair and they were so cheesy and low budget it was painful to watch. I understand people who make low low budget movies only have a certain amount of money to put into effects but my whole view is if you aren't going to be able to spend money on somewhat decent effects then don't bother making a horror movie. A great example of a low low low budget movie with awsome effects was the 1989 zombie movie "The Dead Next Door". This had next to no budget at all and most of the scenes take place in a very small cheap looking video store, and one apartment. This review is pretty long for such a piece of shit movie but I guess the only good thing about this was the leading actress was charming and she gets naked in this. The only other good thing about this movie was the one creepy scene involving a creepy guy on the phone with a dead body in his bed. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member wow this was aggressively shitty and bad. This has maybe 3 good scenes at the very most and they lasted only a couple seconds. There was maybe 2 murders in this whole shitty affair and they were so cheesy and low budget it was painful to watch. I understand people who make low low budget movies only have a certain amount of money to put into effects but my whole view is if you aren't going to be able to spend money on somewhat decent effects then don't bother making a horror movie. A great example of a low low low budget movie with awsome effects was the 1989 zombie movie "The Dead Next Door". This had next to no budget at all and most of the scenes take place in a very small cheap looking video store, and one apartment. This review is pretty long for such a piece of shit movie but I guess the only good thing about this was the leading actress was charming and she gets naked in this. The only other good thing about this movie was the one creepy scene involving a creepy guy on the phone with a dead body in his bed. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A video-store clerk (Frances Raines) drops her disc-jockey boyfriend (Carl Koch) for a stranger (Mark Walker), with a slasher on the loose.
      Director
      Gorman Bechard
      Screenwriter
      Gorman Bechard, Virginia Gilroy
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 29, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 21m