Deranged (1974)

Directed by

Alan Ormsby

Genre

horror film, comedy horror, crime film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 116 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged man living in a rural town begins grave robbing and killing women after his controlling mother dies. The story follows his descent into violence as a local reporter comments on the events.

unsettlinggrimbleakslow-burnpsychologicalcerebraldisturbingcreepy

What happens

Deranged (also known as Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile) is a 1974 American psychological horror film directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen, and starring Roberts Blossom. Its plot, loosely based on the crimes of Ed Gein, follows Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged man in a rural Midwestern community who begins a string of serial murders and grave robberies after the death of his mother Amanda, a religious fanatic who raised him to be a misogynist. The film features a diegetic narration in which newspaper columnist Tom Simms occasionally appears and narrates the events depicted. Though based on Gein, the film's title is misleading since Gein never experimented with necrophilia (although a necrophile is also defined as having "an obsessive fascination with death and corpses.") A Canadian film by Karr International Pictures, the production took place in Oshawa, Ontario in the winter of 1973, with a largely Canadian cast and crew. The film was released regionally in several U.S. states on February 8, 1974, before opening in Los Angeles on March 20, 1974. Deranged had disappeared after its release in 1974; however, it was rediscovered in Florida in the mid-1990s and was released on home video by distributor American International Pictures’ parent company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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