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Summary: A modern classic sure to become part of horror film folklore
Review: I laughed, I cried, I trembled, I gasped and almost wet my pants. Watch this movie and you'll finally understand what a great horror movie is all about. The plot is straight from a nightmare following a night of heavy pizza and the characters are as surreal as the title of this scary flick. Watch it alone with the lights out. This tale of unrequited love and its hideous results is bizarre, yet you won't be able to look away. A box office non-entity, you'll need good luck finding this film on video anywhere, as it has mysteriously remained out of print for years. If you have the resourcefulness to find this movie, and the bravery to watch it, you will be amply rewarded with a weekful of scary dreams and a very enjoyable movie experience.
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Summary: Very underrated
Review: I love this movie! And although I agree with my fellow reviewers about the silly ending, it doesn't detract from the rest of the movie. FYI: the villian is played by Randall William Cook, who also did the makeup and stop motion effects for the film, and is currently famed for his incredible work on Lord of the Rings.
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Summary: A Classic Horror Film
Review: I'll keep this brief since there are so many other great reviews. This movie impressed me so much when I saw it I went on to write a paper and give a presentation about it while in college for video production. It is one of my favorite horror movies. It is so much more like a CLASSIC horror movie than any of the hack and slash garbage that usually comes out. It is more based on suspense and drama than gore. The gore is actually rarely shown - it is more implied through sillouttes and other interesting camera shots. Great story, great lighting and great symbolism make this a keeper...BUT...Why in the world is it only available Full Screen? That is so disappointing, as I've been waiting for this to come to DVD since I got my player. Oh well, sometimes you just have to make due with what's available.
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Summary: A Classic Horror Film
Review: I'll keep this brief since there are so many other great reviews. This movie impressed me so much when I saw it I went on to write a paper and give a presentation about it while in college for video production. It is one of my favorite horror movies. It is so much more like a CLASSIC horror movie than any of the hack and slash garbage that usually comes out. It is more based on suspense and drama than gore. The gore is actually rarely shown - it is more implied through sillouttes and other interesting camera shots. Great story, great lighting and great symbolism make this a keeper...BUT...Why in the world is it only available Full Screen? That is so disappointing, as I've been waiting for this to come to DVD since I got my player. Oh well, sometimes you just have to make due with what's available.
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Summary: I ... Liked It!
Review: I, MADMAN is, at best, a guilty pleasure ... with forced camp-ridden dialogue in a forced camp-ridden situation (a stunningly beautiful bookworm shucking her life away at some used book stores stumbles across an author who penned only two 'non-fiction' horror stories magically brings the demented author to life in a very Freddy Krueger-esque fashion) ... and you can't but help enjoy this harmless horror flick despite your best intentions.Yes, others have made mention of this, but the lead actress (Jenny Wright) is an absolute stunner to look at. Sadly, the film is a bit dated with the wardrobe and hair choices, but, one she slimmed down to the bra and panties it's a very easy gaffe to dismiss. (snicker) The plot is relatively predictable (the script squeezes out a few surprises), and the premise isn't entirely original ... but the "Nightmare on Elm Street" twist works very well in the limitations of the acting and effects. What's the real travesty is the fact that I, MADMAN -- if it enjoyed a theatrical release -- is only offered up in standard television ratio. Some of the scenes might've played better given the 'look' of widescreen (especially some of the more suspenseful moments where our lead actress finds herself in the role of a lead actress -- a novel within a novel). The film's 'period piece sequences' are slim, but they arguably would've played out more effectively visually had a widescreen transfer been available. With an ending too brisk, it's hard to say if a franchise could've been made of the MADMAN. There certainly was potential, and the career of Jenny Wright in constant pursuit of the Madman seeking other victims might be 'the big fish that got away.'
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Summary: Excellent Film
Review: If only Tibor Takacs had done more like this film.
I saw this film in the VHS release as HARDCOVER. It retains the same superb tone as THE GATE, in which it seems that the same stop motion animator has been used.
Takacs seems to know how to go one step beyond, and the leading Lady is great; comments to the contrary are just sour grapes. Also, to have Nicole Kidman in this film would just destroy it, since Kidman is so horrible at acting.
The word was that the inventor of the Makeup for this film was so good, that Takacs decided to cast him as Malcolm Brand... could be film legend, but I don't think so.
I have lost count of how many times I have watched this film, and it is great each time. Very escapist, not much gore , despite the messy cuts in the actors, it is not a splatter fest. More of a superb fright fest.
I can't recommend this enough... its a real fun ride at every stage of the twisted, and wonderfully done , plot.
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Summary: Way-cool!
Review: Interesting and stylish horror movie.
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Summary: FACE VALUE....
Review: Interesting, full-blooded horror thriller about a used-book store clerk Virginia (Jenny Wright) who becomes involved in a 50's pulp horror novel and finds the author (who's also the lunatic in the book) apparently stalking her. The mad doctor/maniac of the book is reconstructing his face with facial features obtained from his murder victims to please the heroine. Virginia not only sees the mad Malcolm Brand/Dr.Kessler (who supposedly died) but finds that he's committing mutilation murders around her as in the book. Of course no one believes her. The film has the old fashioned feel and look of a 50's pulp horror novel as well as neat fantasy sequences from the book with Wright as Anna, the book's heroine, being terrorized by Kessler. The murders are gruesome and lurid but not overly explicit. There's also a monster from the book (a creation of Kessler's) that appears in an early fantasy sequence and in the great climax. Randall William Cook (who also did the special effects) is wonderful as the enigmatic, black clad and facially disfigured Brand/Kessler. Wright is good as Virginia, Clayton Rohner is Virginia's detective boyfriend and comedian Stephanie Hodge is Virginia's laconic co-worker Mona. The fantasy vs.reality theme is well handled and gives the film a good, colorful creepy ambience. This is one of the few modern day horror films that actually works as well as entertains. Highly recommended for buffs. Lights out. Enjoy.
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Summary: EYES! Face? Razor?????
Review: IT's kind of a 'do it yourself' version of "Eyes Without a Face" - not really - closer to the lovely Vinnie the P's "House Of Wax" ...... very nasty work afoot and this one keep you well on your toes , err whatever. Nerdy [but buxom] blonde is a reader of pulp - she becomes slightly entwined in two rather sick fictional excursions by a now departed soul only to find out that the works are actually classified as NON-Fiction .... not helping is the detective hunk boyfriend, who 'believes' her somewhat. Seems that she is now being pursued by the mysterious black trench coated figure - lower face masked and this one carries sharp objects ..... GREAT FUN in the seedy side of Hollywood's old apartments, and those nasty little sticky Yale locks .... ART DIRECTION? Superb! Mixes of green, mint, pastachio, vermillion, crimson and just old plain red - almost like watching 3D without the glasses. [A brief nod to 'Rear Window' - works well!] A MUST for the collector! Bravo to the cast for maintaining the mood and period of this special pleasure [!]
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Summary: EYES! Face? Razor?????
Review: IT's kind of a 'do it yourself' version of "Eyes Without a Face" - not really - closer to the lovely Vinnie the P's "House Of Wax" ...... very nasty work afoot and this one keep you well on your toes , err whatever. Nerdy [but buxom] blonde is a reader of pulp - she becomes slightly entwined in two rather sick fictional excursions by a now departed soul only to find out that the works are actually classified as NON-Fiction .... not helping is the detective hunk boyfriend, who 'believes' her somewhat. Seems that she is now being pursued by the mysterious black trench coated figure - lower face masked and this one carries sharp objects ..... GREAT FUN in the seedy side of Hollywood's old apartments, and those nasty little sticky Yale locks .... ART DIRECTION? Superb! Mixes of green, mint, pastachio, vermillion, crimson and just old plain red - almost like watching 3D without the glasses. [A brief nod to 'Rear Window' - works well!] A MUST for the collector! Bravo to the cast for maintaining the mood and period of this special pleasure [!]
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