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Alan OrmsbyKamera:
Jack McGowanMusik:
Carl ZittrerBesetzung:
Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson, Marian Waldman, Micki Moore, Pat Orr, Jack MatherInhalte(1)
Jeffrey Gillen and Alan Ormsby co-direct this US horror based on the serial killings of Ed Gein. Ezra Cobb (Robert Blossom) is devastated when his mother dies, and so digs up her corpse and installs it in his house. With his mental state continuing to deteriorate, Ezra begins digging up further bodies to bring them to his gruesome home before his obsession eventually leads him to lure a number of women to his lair in order to murder them. The cast also includes Cosette Lee, Micki Moore and Robert Warner. (Arrow Academy)
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Obwohl Deranged um ganze 8 Monate vor dem verwandten Texas Chainsaw Massacre entstand, geriet er im Schatten seines kultigeren Bruders. Und das ist wirklich schade, denn dieser Film hat seine unbestreitbaren Qualitäten und diese beiden Horrorfilme ähneln sich sogar sehr. Und was am wichtigsten ist: Beide wurden von dem schockierenden Fall des Ed Gein inspiriert. Während Hooper eher auf den Horroraspekt setzt, wählt Deranged eine authentischere und psychologischere Herangehensweise. Kein Schwingen der Kettensäge, sondern eine wirklich gründliche Untersuchung des Lebens eines Wahnsinnigen, der nach dem Tod seiner geliebten Mutter beschließt, Leichen auszugraben und junge Frauen zu ermorden. Diese außergewöhnliche, rohe und recht erschütternde Darstellung wird zusätzlich durch die großartige Leistung von Roberts Blossom in der Hauptrolle unterstrichen. Es macht wirklich Freude, ihm zuzusehen.
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Bizarre, disturbing and depressing. A peculiar and minimalist narrative about a legendary mass murderer, more psychologically plausible than the thematically similar The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but on the other hand much less visually interesting and without a single scene that a horror fan would play repeatedly and whose suggestion would penetrate deeply into their mind (TCM is packed to bursting with such sequences). Still, a valuable lesson in my genre education, you simply won't find similarly tuned exploitation flicks, with an honest seventies atmosphere and a primitive guilty pleasure form. 55%
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Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile is essentially conceived as a reconstruction of Ezra's life after his mother's death, with the editor entering the narrative throughout, providing some commentary, which emphasizes the unsettling feelings that can arise from this film. Truly ahead of its time, but still a very well-crafted piece even today, capable of unsettling the viewer at the very least. The effects are excellent, although the color of the blood is a bit painful on the eyes.
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