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* May 26, 2011 - 10:39am
It feels like it was yesterday. It was staring down at me from the horror shelf at Video Time in my hometown. It was 1982 or ‘83 and since the headline above says “Madman”, the movie was of course Joe Giannone’s movie of that title. I held the video in my hand and admired the fetching artwork on the sleeve, I read the copy on the back. It seemed to be very cool, very scary -- and very violent. But was it cut? Censorship was tough in Sweden back, but some distributors didn’t bother to submit their releases to the censors.
I don’t know if it was cut. I never rented it. I remember one of my classmates entertaining us by acting out the best bits of “Madman”, which he had seen the day before. He said it begins with a guy in the woods who calls out “Maaadmaaan!” and this really scary fellow shows up and kills everybody.
It took me about 30 years to see this movie. I stumbled across it a year or two ago and watched it, and then I re-watched it the other day. Interesting -- this somewhat forgotten movie has become one of my favorite slashers. Well, I never forgot it; I just couldn’t forget that artwork -- and since the movie was off the radar for decades, I got even more curious.
To be honest, the opening of “Madman” is pretty … bad. A bunch of so-called young adults and an older, bear like man sit around a campfire in the woods, and one of the guys sings this song. All of it. From beginning to end. It’s supposed to be suggestive, but turns out just silly.
But after that, the older man tells the story of Madman Marz, a man who used to live in the very same woods, and who went insane and chopped his family to death. Legend has it he’s still around in these woods and if you call out his name, he’ll come for you. Naturally, one guy calls his name out, and what can I say -- he sure shouldn’t have done that, folks.
Read » Retro Horror Review: Madman (1982)



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