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Deranged / Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)

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  • Actors: Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson, Robert Warner, Marcia Diamond
  • Directors: Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen, Kevin Connor
  • Writers: Alan Ormsby, Frank Cotolo, Robert Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe, Tim Tuchrello
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: January 31, 2006
  • Run Time: 183 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (128 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000068TPD
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,522 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Cannibals, necrophiles, and murderers, oh my! I own many of the MGM Midnight Movie releases, and I have to say, these two films together certainly combine to make the most gruesome release to date.
Deranged (1974) aka Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile, was co-directed by actor Jeff Gillen (he played Santa Claus in the classic Christmas Story film released in 1983, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid.") and writer Alan Ormsby, who also wrote the film, along with other films like My Bodyguard (1980), Cat People (1982), and Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), is based on the ghastly true life events of reclusive Wisconsin farmer Ed Gein, convicted of necrophilia, cannibalism, and murder, inspiring films like Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Silence of the Lambs (1991) and others. The film stars perennial old timing character actor Robert Blossoms as Ezra (Ez) Cobb, whom I best remember from the John Carpenter film Christine (1983), as George LeBay, the old timing man who sold the nerdish Arnie Cunningham the possessed car.
The film starts off with an on-screen narrator giving us some exposition about Ezra, who lives a quiet, solitary life caring for his deeply religious, domineering and bed ridden mother, who instills within Eddie the notion that women, in general, are evil and sex is sinful. After her death, Ezra is left alone, and becomes miserable. So much so he digs up his mother more than a year after her burial (yuck), and brings her home. He soon begins finding fresher corpses, by following the obituaries, for all kinds of uses (double yuck). Soon his compulsions move from dead corpses to living victims. His secluded house becomes a shrine to all things dead.
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Ignore the previous comments! Kino Lorber just released this version that Amazon has posted and it is the completely UNCUT Version, with some new special features!! This IS the one you want! Finally after too many years!!! The picture is very sharp and the sound is way better than any previous releases which have been very rare in the U.S. Also, the most realistic version of the Serial Killer Ed Gein. They just changed his name for the most part. Highly Recommended!!
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Deranged is one of those films over the course of 20 years (Between Tape Traders, & Horror Message Boards) It has gained much more attention and it should, it's very much under-rated!
Deranged is a 1974 oddity of a Film
It Pre-Dates the Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre by only a year!
It's also the first real Biography about a real life Boogie Man (Ed Gein who you can't call a serial killer due to the fact I'm pretty sure he only killed two woman. But, what the local police found at Ed Farmhouse changed the "wholesome" Clean "Leave It to Beaver" type Americana forever
Ed Gein was proof real monster's were your next door neighbors!
This films tries to paint a picture of the lead up to his Infamous arrest... IMO it does it pretty good
Somethings about this film are very strange and disjointing (The man in the trench coat who walks into frame who is Narrating the film, the score is flat out creepy loops of a pipe organ-based hymn play throughout) Sounds like funeral music
This film was very much a Indie Film (when there really was no such thing as Indies)
The F/X and Gore are strong.....Tom Savini created the make-up effects I'm pretty sure this is his first real jobs in the film industry
If your a Old school Horror Fan (1970's to late 90's your enjoy this film for what it is)

Roberts Blossom (Escape from Alcatraz, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Home Alone, The Quick and the Dead) Plays Ezra Cobb
aka Ed Gein
His performance is really good it's very Organic and a bit creepy this is 1974 there's been very few Modern Horror Films/Slashers besides Psycho!
(There's a story about Deranged being brought up to Mr.
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Another delectable double-feature tidbit from MGM, this DVD features two horror movies with cannibalistic themes: DERANGED (1974) and the cult classic MOTEL HELL (1980).
DERANGED:
There are several movies whose writers claim that the films were inspired by the notorious Wisconsin necrophiliac and purported cannibal Edward Gein--PSYCHO (1960), THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974), and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991), to name a few--but only DERANGED comes close to reflecting Gein's grisly true-life activities. For those who don't already know, Ed Gein was a backwoodsy Wisconsin farmer who, during the 1950s, raided cemeteries and collected various body parts from the corpses. He is known to have made clothing and household items from the preserved skin and bones of his "trophies," and it was reported that he also ate some of the flesh (though this was never substantiated). Gein was caught and arrested in 1957 after actually killing the proprietor of a hardware store, then taking her body to his barn and preparing it in the manner of a hunter dressing a deer.
In DERANGED, the primary character is named Ezra Cobb, and though a lot of the real-life necrophilic and cannibalistic acts have been toned down for the script, Cobb is still a fairly accurate reflection of Edward Gein. To make these ghoulish themes a little more palatable, scriptwriter and co-director Alan Ormsby mixes in lots of gallows humor. In addition, the over-the-top performance of award-winning character actor Roberts Blossom, as Ezra Cobb, adds some jocularity to the film, but never goes so far as to diminish the overall horror.
Like Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which was released the same year, DERANGED opens with an attempt to convince the audience that what they will soon see is the gospel truth.
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