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Disturbed [VHS]

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Dr. Derrick Russell (Malcolm McDowell) is a Professional Psychiatrist at a Mental Hospital. When he meets a Sex Obsessed but an attractive suicidal patient (Pamela Gidley), who is new at the Hospital, He`s attractive to Her (Although she has a Split Personality). Which Russell did a horrible thing to a Attractive Patient of His, ten years earlier. When Russell is planning to something Awful to his new Patient, He`s accidently killed her with the help of a Mental Patient (Geoffrey Lewis). Since, she Murder, Russell is being hearing strange things on his Mind and Also, seeing strange things including the Woman, He Murdered, is it all in his Head or She`s not Dead?

Directed by Charles Winkler bring a Clever, Something Dumb, Entertaining Comic Thriller works thanks to the Fun Performance by McDowell. Written by Emerson Bixby and the Director from a Story by Bixby brings some memorable moments in this Movie, which is Strangely Funny. Although, the Story doesn`t Quite Work at times and the Camera Angels are at times-Unnecessary for this to Work, But the Acting is quite Good. Priscilla Pointer and Irwin Keyes are in Good Supporting Roles. Disturbed isn`t the Greatest Black Comedy Ever Told but It`s Quite Different, when the Movie wants to. Clint Howard and Filmmaker-Adam Rifkin are in Small Roles as the Mental Patients. Grade:B+.

The director got himself one of those two-for-one labotomies at K-Mart, he rewrote the script, and turned this film into a comedy that wasn't funny and a thriller that wasn't scary. McDowell tried, but then so did the navigator on the Titanic. Thumbs down...

Rarely has the genre of moving images so acutely conveyed the pedagogic burden of the dominant ideology. Unsophisticates may have been puzzled by the subtle sociological gradience masked by the director's latent subtrefuge of exploitative cinema. However, thoughful observers must ratiocinate that this is in fact, if not in deed, the pentultimate work of an auture at the height of his powers. The incalcuable sentience and sensitivity required to cobble such bifurcated meaning in mere celluloid is awesome on the scale of apotheosis. "Disturbed" is unquestionably the greatest film since "Madmen Of Manduras".