Crazed doesn't rewrite the rules of the horror genre or offer anything we haven't seen done to some extent or another, but for a low budget horror film, it accomplishes more than most and the attention to character drama and dynamics instead of offering a predicable slash fest is appreciated.
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This was the first feature film that I worked on as a Key Grip.
z2155223 January 2007
I would wish to say a few words about this picture.
In late July, 1976 I was in Los Angeles enrolled in a summer film workshop at U.C.L.A.; while editing my documentary film "24 Hours at the Original Pantry" I responded to a bulletin board card posted at the school looking for technical help on an independent feature film. I responded to the ad and was introduced to Richard and Jean Cassidy. I was hired that day as the company grip in charge of construction.
Together they had written, conceived and filmed a 35MM presentation short film of their story. The beautiful B/W project was an obvious tribute to the suspense and magic of Alfred Hitchcock. Directed by Richard, it featured his wife, Jean as the murder victim. This well crafted short was photographed very skillfully by a bright and talented Director of Photography named Doug Hodge.
The original working title of this film was "The Paranoiac"; it was completed and released as "Slipping into Darkness" by a company called Jupiter Pictures, sometime in late 1979.
Featured in the film is a very large house which still stands on Edgemont, south of Wilshire Blvd. and a few blocks east of Highland Avenue in Hollywood, Ca. Almost the entire film was set in this one location. This was the nature of "low budget/ no budget" independent film making during that era.
For anyone interested in the nuts and bolts. The camera, grip and set lighting equipment package (Additionaly, I suspect some financial assistance) was provided by The Sawyer Camera Co. Cliff Sawyer and Jack Birns were co-founders of the landmark Hollywood motion picture equipment rental company still known worldwide as Birns and Sawyer in Hollywood, California.
The 35MM camera package consisted of a Mitchell BNCR as the primary/ or "A" camera. The heavy Mitchell Camera was always operated on a Worrell geared camera head mounted upon an Italian Elemack "Spyder" dolly . An Arriflex 2C was used as the portable hand-held "B" camera. During the production, the BNCR was replaced by a camera known as the "Mitchell 205 Reflex". This was old Michell Model NC modified dramatically and updated by an Italian company in order to compete worldwide with the new and very innovative Panavision "X" camera.(only a small handful Mitchell 205 cameras still exist today) Even by present standards these cameras and lenses were great, but not very user friendly in terms of shooting sync sound in confined interior spaces.
At that time HMI (Daylight balanced)lighting technology was almost unheard of and carbon arc lights were far to expensive to operate within their limited budget. Therefore, tungsten lighting color corrected by filters for Daylight situations and extensive color gel correction and tenting of windows for all the interior scenes was relied upon . The project was shot on the relatively slow Eastman Kodak Color Negitave film stock of that era. The "tool box" we worked with was quite limited and very labor intensive for the crew size.
Despite the technical burdens and financial pitfalls which all small independent films faced and dealt with during the 1970's, I feel that this picture stands up very well compared with most low budget independent projects made during that time.
Thirty plus years later, I remain proud that this was my first feature film as a Key Grip. I still feel the same way about my efforts on a professional level and those who worked with me. Without the wonderful insights and information handed me by the talented and patient Director of Photography Doug Hodge, I might not have pursued and gained knowledge fundamental to the worlds of grip,set lighting and camera. In later years, I worked steadily as a key grip, lighting gaffer and cameraman on many film and television projects.
Additionally, the dogged determination of Richard and Jean Cassidy to see their project finished and out into the public arena was an inspiration to me. My professional life and career might never have gone beyond that 16MM editing room at U.C.L.A..
Motion pictures like this one were the training ground for many of today's "A"-list Producers, directors, actors, artists and technical craftspeople. My generation of film makers made our mistakes. We learned how and tried in all aspects of of our craft, to make a better mouse trap. Years ago, Key Grip and old friend Raymond Mario Perosi said to me: "Well hell, were all new once".
I have not seen this picture since 1979. Now that I discovered the new title, I will look froward to screening it with the latest changes and fresh eyes. If you have any comments about this film or film making in general, please submit them here or via my listing on this site.
Thank you for taking time to read my comments.--Dan Zarlengo
In late July, 1976 I was in Los Angeles enrolled in a summer film workshop at U.C.L.A.; while editing my documentary film "24 Hours at the Original Pantry" I responded to a bulletin board card posted at the school looking for technical help on an independent feature film. I responded to the ad and was introduced to Richard and Jean Cassidy. I was hired that day as the company grip in charge of construction.
Together they had written, conceived and filmed a 35MM presentation short film of their story. The beautiful B/W project was an obvious tribute to the suspense and magic of Alfred Hitchcock. Directed by Richard, it featured his wife, Jean as the murder victim. This well crafted short was photographed very skillfully by a bright and talented Director of Photography named Doug Hodge.
The original working title of this film was "The Paranoiac"; it was completed and released as "Slipping into Darkness" by a company called Jupiter Pictures, sometime in late 1979.
Featured in the film is a very large house which still stands on Edgemont, south of Wilshire Blvd. and a few blocks east of Highland Avenue in Hollywood, Ca. Almost the entire film was set in this one location. This was the nature of "low budget/ no budget" independent film making during that era.
For anyone interested in the nuts and bolts. The camera, grip and set lighting equipment package (Additionaly, I suspect some financial assistance) was provided by The Sawyer Camera Co. Cliff Sawyer and Jack Birns were co-founders of the landmark Hollywood motion picture equipment rental company still known worldwide as Birns and Sawyer in Hollywood, California.
The 35MM camera package consisted of a Mitchell BNCR as the primary/ or "A" camera. The heavy Mitchell Camera was always operated on a Worrell geared camera head mounted upon an Italian Elemack "Spyder" dolly . An Arriflex 2C was used as the portable hand-held "B" camera. During the production, the BNCR was replaced by a camera known as the "Mitchell 205 Reflex". This was old Michell Model NC modified dramatically and updated by an Italian company in order to compete worldwide with the new and very innovative Panavision "X" camera.(only a small handful Mitchell 205 cameras still exist today) Even by present standards these cameras and lenses were great, but not very user friendly in terms of shooting sync sound in confined interior spaces.
At that time HMI (Daylight balanced)lighting technology was almost unheard of and carbon arc lights were far to expensive to operate within their limited budget. Therefore, tungsten lighting color corrected by filters for Daylight situations and extensive color gel correction and tenting of windows for all the interior scenes was relied upon . The project was shot on the relatively slow Eastman Kodak Color Negitave film stock of that era. The "tool box" we worked with was quite limited and very labor intensive for the crew size.
Despite the technical burdens and financial pitfalls which all small independent films faced and dealt with during the 1970's, I feel that this picture stands up very well compared with most low budget independent projects made during that time.
Thirty plus years later, I remain proud that this was my first feature film as a Key Grip. I still feel the same way about my efforts on a professional level and those who worked with me. Without the wonderful insights and information handed me by the talented and patient Director of Photography Doug Hodge, I might not have pursued and gained knowledge fundamental to the worlds of grip,set lighting and camera. In later years, I worked steadily as a key grip, lighting gaffer and cameraman on many film and television projects.
Additionally, the dogged determination of Richard and Jean Cassidy to see their project finished and out into the public arena was an inspiration to me. My professional life and career might never have gone beyond that 16MM editing room at U.C.L.A..
Motion pictures like this one were the training ground for many of today's "A"-list Producers, directors, actors, artists and technical craftspeople. My generation of film makers made our mistakes. We learned how and tried in all aspects of of our craft, to make a better mouse trap. Years ago, Key Grip and old friend Raymond Mario Perosi said to me: "Well hell, were all new once".
I have not seen this picture since 1979. Now that I discovered the new title, I will look froward to screening it with the latest changes and fresh eyes. If you have any comments about this film or film making in general, please submit them here or via my listing on this site.
Thank you for taking time to read my comments.--Dan Zarlengo
A second review of this film
MADMANMARZ8 July 2002
Blood Shed/Crazed/slipping Into Darkness was the first movie I ever reviewed on IMDB. Initially I totally bashed the film. After A second viewing I take it back completly!!! The fact that the video art work makes it look like a violent-gore film lead to my negative review. I was expecting a gore fest and instead got a film with low body count and no gore. This film is actually very good. Their are a lot of interesting little things in this movie proving way ahead of the current events of our time. The lead character is constantly having flashbacks of his childhood. Most interesting is the priest flashbacks, the film seems to hint that he was molested by a priest especially of the quick shots of the boy on his knees possibly in a confessional booth. Ironically this issue is currently all over the news. It's almost as if the writer knew of a dirty little secret and was exposing it with this film. The character's army flashbacks are interesting too, especially since real life serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer had a bad experience in the army as well. It seems to me at second look that this film is a realistic look of how a lonley individual with serious past issues can slowly become completly insane and end up murdering people. To top it off there is some funny dialogue by the old ladies in this film to soften the serious tone. A second look at this film reveals a seriously under rated study of insanity. The original title Slipping into Darkness fits the movie better than the Blood Shed tag which will steer you the wrong way!
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Maciste_Brother20 April 2004
CRAZED is one obscure movie.
It's quite forgettable and boring but not bad. I've seen much worse than this.
While watching it, I couldn't figure out when it was made, who was in it or why it was made. I couldn't help but feel that this movie was made in the 1970s, not 80s. The whole cast is unknown to me. And the reason why it was made is even more obscure. It's not horrific enough to be considered an all-out horror film. But it's too gruesome to be considered a standard melodrama. The characters in the movie were all annoying, certainly the woman who's looking for a room. Talk about an unpleasant character. And the killer was such a loser that it's impossible to empathize with him. The filmmaking is neither this nor that. It's very conventional filmmaking with very little personal, artistic touches to it but it's not 100% commercial filmmaking because of its low budget.
In the end, it's like watching nothing at all.
BTW, this film is also known as BLOOD SHED. I wonder why they called it that because there's no shed to be found anywhere in the entire movie.
It's quite forgettable and boring but not bad. I've seen much worse than this.
While watching it, I couldn't figure out when it was made, who was in it or why it was made. I couldn't help but feel that this movie was made in the 1970s, not 80s. The whole cast is unknown to me. And the reason why it was made is even more obscure. It's not horrific enough to be considered an all-out horror film. But it's too gruesome to be considered a standard melodrama. The characters in the movie were all annoying, certainly the woman who's looking for a room. Talk about an unpleasant character. And the killer was such a loser that it's impossible to empathize with him. The filmmaking is neither this nor that. It's very conventional filmmaking with very little personal, artistic touches to it but it's not 100% commercial filmmaking because of its low budget.
In the end, it's like watching nothing at all.
BTW, this film is also known as BLOOD SHED. I wonder why they called it that because there's no shed to be found anywhere in the entire movie.
Way better than you would be led to believe
BandSAboutMovies11 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Also known as Slipping Into Darkness and Bloodshed and shot as The Paranoiac, this movie is like a young and scrappy cover band playing Psycho in a small club and you're like, well, they're derivative, but that's a totally different bass part and that singer has some charm, you know? It's ramshackle and cheap in the best of ways, set in a boardinghouse, as so many of the best horror movies are - particularly regional and low budget examples - where aspiring journalist Karen (Beverly Ross) gets a cheap from Mrs. Brewer (Belle Mitchell). Yet, as always, everything comes at a price, as her new neighbor Grahame (Laszlo Papas) is beyond obsessed with her.
Grahame spies on her through the ventilation system and we soon learn that he was molested not once, but twice in his formative years, leading to him being quite off today. The kind of off where - spoiler, except that by me saying this is so very close to Psycho you should know what's coming but this goes further - when Karen drowns in the tub, he keeps her body in his room and tries to preserve what little he has of her, all while her ex-boyfriend and a classmate she's grown biblically close to try to find out where she's gone.
There's a detail early on where it's revealed that Karen is diabetic and suffers from seizures and by the time she's in her death throes in a bathtub, you realize that this isn't a movie that just throws out small details. It's a movie that forces you to empathize with its killer - again, third mention, Psycho - while having its main female character neither be the final girl nor the heroine.
Either you're going to feel that this is way too long and drawn out or you'll be fascinated by it, feeling like you're just like Grahame, watching lives that are not our own, seeing damaged people attempt to escape their dismal fates. In a different story, the way that life has turned both of the leads into shells of people - Grahame haunted by multiple moments of childhood trauma and a lack of being able to connect to anything resembling intimacy and Karen unable to even face her ex-boyfriend as she leaves him and continually being inappropriately approached by nearly every man in this movie - who in a different story may have met cute and worked together to solve their issues.
Instead, the one moment when Grahame's voyeurism could have been used for good and saved Karen, he's called away by Mrs. Brewer and misses out on his would-be love's lonely demise. For a movie that seems to present itself as a slasher, that's a big idea.
Director and writer Richard Cassidy sadly didn't do much after this, directing and writing - before being removed and replaced by editor Adrian Carr - the 1983 Danielle Steele adaption Now and Forever, as well as writing The Edge of Power and directing The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Bible Unravelled, which his based on Dr. Barbara Thiering's book, The Qumran Origins of the Christian Church, which introduces the theory that the unnamed figures in the Dead Sea Scrolls are John the Baptist and Jesus.
An even bigger shame is that this hasn't been released on blu ray, as there are plenty less deserving movies that have been given plenty more attention.
Grahame spies on her through the ventilation system and we soon learn that he was molested not once, but twice in his formative years, leading to him being quite off today. The kind of off where - spoiler, except that by me saying this is so very close to Psycho you should know what's coming but this goes further - when Karen drowns in the tub, he keeps her body in his room and tries to preserve what little he has of her, all while her ex-boyfriend and a classmate she's grown biblically close to try to find out where she's gone.
There's a detail early on where it's revealed that Karen is diabetic and suffers from seizures and by the time she's in her death throes in a bathtub, you realize that this isn't a movie that just throws out small details. It's a movie that forces you to empathize with its killer - again, third mention, Psycho - while having its main female character neither be the final girl nor the heroine.
Either you're going to feel that this is way too long and drawn out or you'll be fascinated by it, feeling like you're just like Grahame, watching lives that are not our own, seeing damaged people attempt to escape their dismal fates. In a different story, the way that life has turned both of the leads into shells of people - Grahame haunted by multiple moments of childhood trauma and a lack of being able to connect to anything resembling intimacy and Karen unable to even face her ex-boyfriend as she leaves him and continually being inappropriately approached by nearly every man in this movie - who in a different story may have met cute and worked together to solve their issues.
Instead, the one moment when Grahame's voyeurism could have been used for good and saved Karen, he's called away by Mrs. Brewer and misses out on his would-be love's lonely demise. For a movie that seems to present itself as a slasher, that's a big idea.
Director and writer Richard Cassidy sadly didn't do much after this, directing and writing - before being removed and replaced by editor Adrian Carr - the 1983 Danielle Steele adaption Now and Forever, as well as writing The Edge of Power and directing The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Bible Unravelled, which his based on Dr. Barbara Thiering's book, The Qumran Origins of the Christian Church, which introduces the theory that the unnamed figures in the Dead Sea Scrolls are John the Baptist and Jesus.
An even bigger shame is that this hasn't been released on blu ray, as there are plenty less deserving movies that have been given plenty more attention.
Hidden gem!
ethylester4 February 2004
I really enjoyed every part of this movie. It was never dull and the characters were very well done. I especially liked the "crazy" guy Graham. Papas does a remarkable job portraying this kind of psychotic. He is charming and shy on the outside, but has real potential to lose his mind if provoked.
There are so many good things I could say about this hidden gem of a movie. The old ladies are fun - they talk about bad breath and halitosis and super market employees who are "hoodlums" and "all hair and pimples" - but it's not done in a cheesy way, and that's why it's so good.
There are unpredictable moments and unexpected twists. You know the guy is going to go crazy, but you don't know exactly how. He does a really good job hiding his feelings. And I must admit, being a girl alone in her apartment while watching this film freaked me out a little bit. The story is flat out creepy!!
One correction needs to be made on here, however. The crazy guy is not "mother dominated". The old lady is NOT his mother. His mother abandoned him when he was only 4 or 5 years old. This is when we see the flashback scenes to his childhood. His life may be dominated by the old lady, but accepts this willingly, and out of loneliness. She is not an evil dominatrix whatsoever. Just a kind old lady who is also lonely.
It's too bad "Rodney" didn't act in any other movies. He could play Mac Davis, if they ever made a film about him. ha, yeah right.
I also thought Karen was a good character. I would like to clear up another idea on here. Some reviewers don't know why she left the farm. It seemed plain to me that she left because she wanted to become a writer and couldn't do so while living with her boyfriend. I think she also wanted to get away from him and that kind of country living. She needed to get into a city and spend some time alone with her writing in a place of her own.
If you like good characters and psychological movies that keep you wondering what's going to happen next, you should see this one (if you can find it). Never a dull moment and not too unrealistic. 8/10.
And remember, in the words of the over-acting professor: To be a <insert overused swear words in here> good writer you don't just need discipline, you need DI-CI-PLINE!! (I could have done without this guy).
There are so many good things I could say about this hidden gem of a movie. The old ladies are fun - they talk about bad breath and halitosis and super market employees who are "hoodlums" and "all hair and pimples" - but it's not done in a cheesy way, and that's why it's so good.
There are unpredictable moments and unexpected twists. You know the guy is going to go crazy, but you don't know exactly how. He does a really good job hiding his feelings. And I must admit, being a girl alone in her apartment while watching this film freaked me out a little bit. The story is flat out creepy!!
One correction needs to be made on here, however. The crazy guy is not "mother dominated". The old lady is NOT his mother. His mother abandoned him when he was only 4 or 5 years old. This is when we see the flashback scenes to his childhood. His life may be dominated by the old lady, but accepts this willingly, and out of loneliness. She is not an evil dominatrix whatsoever. Just a kind old lady who is also lonely.
It's too bad "Rodney" didn't act in any other movies. He could play Mac Davis, if they ever made a film about him. ha, yeah right.
I also thought Karen was a good character. I would like to clear up another idea on here. Some reviewers don't know why she left the farm. It seemed plain to me that she left because she wanted to become a writer and couldn't do so while living with her boyfriend. I think she also wanted to get away from him and that kind of country living. She needed to get into a city and spend some time alone with her writing in a place of her own.
If you like good characters and psychological movies that keep you wondering what's going to happen next, you should see this one (if you can find it). Never a dull moment and not too unrealistic. 8/10.
And remember, in the words of the over-acting professor: To be a <insert overused swear words in here> good writer you don't just need discipline, you need DI-CI-PLINE!! (I could have done without this guy).
Fantastic offbeat character study
GroovyDoom23 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I was pleased to see so many other reviews here that felt the way I do about this film, it really is an obscure gem that deserves rediscovery. The story owes a great debt to "Psycho", but I have to say that "Crazed" really digs deeper than "Psycho" does in its exploration of the emotional horror experienced by its Norman Bates character, Grahame (Lazlo Pappas). There's a Marion Crane parallel too in Karen (Beverly Ross), a troubled woman who sets out to follow her dream of becoming a journalist. When she rents a room in the boarding house where Grahame also lives, she triggers a growing obsession that quickly breaks whatever tenuous ties Grahame has to sanity and pushes him over the edge, his life spiraling downwards into madness and murder.
Grahame becomes a lurking presence in the house, spying on Karen in her most intimate moments through peepholes he has set up in the walls of the house. Every attempt he tries to make to reach out to Karen in a conventional way is met with awkward rejection, and this emotional isolation is the true horror that the film is most interested in showing us. Grahame also makes for a compelling character due to the sensitive performance by Lazlo Pappas. Beverly Ross is great, too, and these two characters emerge as doomed people who are similar, yet unable to reach one another.
Although "Crazed" isn't a film where graphic violence is the focus, it does feature several murders that are quite shocking, not because they're gory, but because they're so realistic. The thing that sticks with you after the credits, though, is the stunning performance by Pappas, who convinces us that we've just witnessed a real person losing grip of his mental health. I was shaken after I saw this movie, and it still haunts me.
Grahame becomes a lurking presence in the house, spying on Karen in her most intimate moments through peepholes he has set up in the walls of the house. Every attempt he tries to make to reach out to Karen in a conventional way is met with awkward rejection, and this emotional isolation is the true horror that the film is most interested in showing us. Grahame also makes for a compelling character due to the sensitive performance by Lazlo Pappas. Beverly Ross is great, too, and these two characters emerge as doomed people who are similar, yet unable to reach one another.
Although "Crazed" isn't a film where graphic violence is the focus, it does feature several murders that are quite shocking, not because they're gory, but because they're so realistic. The thing that sticks with you after the credits, though, is the stunning performance by Pappas, who convinces us that we've just witnessed a real person losing grip of his mental health. I was shaken after I saw this movie, and it still haunts me.
Immensely despairing and unjustly slighted proto-slasher.
EyeAskance14 October 2008
Filmed on a meager budget sometime during the later 1970s, this is an intriguing forerunner to the glut of psycho/slasher fare which dominated the horror genre for a decade following the release of HALLOWEEN. Unfortunately more-less forgotten, CRAZED is a well handled and out-of-the-ordinary project with exceptional performances, and it deserves a broader fanbase.
Spare on the sensationalism common to films of this variety, emphasis is instead placed on the anguish of a dissociative young man in an emotionally fragile state. Tortured as a child(as seen in flashbacks), years of physical, mental, and sexual abuse have rendered him a socially disconnected and passive adult, trudging through his life with a horrible dead-end job and humble subservience to his hoary, demanding landlady. His awkward amatory anxieties are piqued by a young lady who takes residence in the room next to his, then a tragic card is suddenly dealt by the hand of fate. In this moment of unfortunate circumstance, a contrite and most pitiable killer is born.
Rarely frightening in conventional ways, CRAZED is nonetheless effective in its phlegmatic gravity...the story is thronging with an unrelenting pervasive sadness, straight through to its benumbing closing shot. Impatient viewers may find the methodical slow pacing a chore to endure, but to those with tastes leaning toward a more visceral brand of horror, CRAZED comes highly recommended.
7/10
Spare on the sensationalism common to films of this variety, emphasis is instead placed on the anguish of a dissociative young man in an emotionally fragile state. Tortured as a child(as seen in flashbacks), years of physical, mental, and sexual abuse have rendered him a socially disconnected and passive adult, trudging through his life with a horrible dead-end job and humble subservience to his hoary, demanding landlady. His awkward amatory anxieties are piqued by a young lady who takes residence in the room next to his, then a tragic card is suddenly dealt by the hand of fate. In this moment of unfortunate circumstance, a contrite and most pitiable killer is born.
Rarely frightening in conventional ways, CRAZED is nonetheless effective in its phlegmatic gravity...the story is thronging with an unrelenting pervasive sadness, straight through to its benumbing closing shot. Impatient viewers may find the methodical slow pacing a chore to endure, but to those with tastes leaning toward a more visceral brand of horror, CRAZED comes highly recommended.
7/10
Surprisingly downbeat "Psycho" inspired slasher.
HumanoidOfFlesh25 May 2010
A diabetic seizures sufferer Karen wants to take a part in a creative writing course.She rents a room in Mrs Brewer's boarding house.One of the tenants is Grahame,obviously disturbed and mentally unstable ex G.I,who lives at the top floor.He falls in love with Karen and the consequences are deadly as the murders begin..."Crazed" is leisurely paced,but suspenseful psycho-slasher that owes a lot to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho".The acting is very good and the plot offers some twisted surprises and two gruesome killings including one fairly nasty stabbing scene and a strangling."Crazed" is quite similar in tone to "The Silent Scream" and "The Killing Kind",but I enjoyed it.8 out of 10.
I'VE SEEN ALOT WORSE, WORTH THE WATCH!!!!
SlasherReviewer9 July 2004
I can't imagine what movie the other reviewers watched as only one person get's killed? Must have been another movie? Yes it takes about 45 minutes for the first victim to be slaughtered but we have some humor and some sleaze to grasp first. This movie had a great Hitchcock feel to it, and a must see for true horror fans. No it's not the best movie ever but it's quality early 80's slasher trash. Some drowning's in bathtubs, brutal knife murders, strangeling, etc. I have the cover as well as a female is lying nude and bloody!!!I have the Regal Video version of Bloodshed and it was 87 minutes. Slasher reviewer gives this twisted fiasco 3 thumbs up out of the full 5. That means check it out!!The incest overtones were a bit much but the religious brainwashing flashbacks made me laugh like a priest on his wedding day. Enjoy trash cinema and don't be so critical you other reviewers!!
I liked it...
lthseldy124 October 2000
When I had bought this film for $6.00 at a used book store I didn't know what to expect. I thought this movie was interesting to watch. I do not know why the girl had to leave her apartment and still keep in touch with her boyfriend but my guess would be because of emotional problems in her life. She moves into a house that the people that live in it remind me of the tenants in the movie "The Sentinel". She ends up moving next door to some crazed wacko with alot of mental problems stemming from experiences in his past and the man begins to bother the girl after the old lady that is the landlady of the building tells him to do so and he thinks about it and gives it a try. She begins to push him away and gives him every excuse not to go out with him and he begins to get impatient. I will not give out anything that happens after this but as far as the overall movie goes I found it enjoyable to watch and the characters in the movie were perfect for their parts in this movie.
A lame movie with an old idea...
WritnGuy-220 August 1999
I avoided this movie--"Bloodshed" at the rental place I go to--until finally picking it up last night. And boy do I wish I just kept avoiding it.
This movie is a bit confusing, and extremely boring. A woman leaves her farm to go stay at some house for no explained reason, and after much boredom, she has a seizure in the bathtub and drowns. This weirdo who lives at the house was watching from behind a one way mirror, and instead of reporting her death, he leaves it in her room. More and more boredom, and then a little bit of murder here and there until the stupid ending. I was so happy it was over. It was a little comical seeing old ladies as some of the cast members that would normally be played by stupid dumb blondes fresh out of high school. They were in the "scariest" parts of the movie.
Avoid this movie. But if you like movies like "3 on a Meathook," check it out. That movie was boring with little to it. So is this. And it's just as odd. So, if you liked that, you'll find this enjoyable. I, personally, thought it was terrible.
This movie is a bit confusing, and extremely boring. A woman leaves her farm to go stay at some house for no explained reason, and after much boredom, she has a seizure in the bathtub and drowns. This weirdo who lives at the house was watching from behind a one way mirror, and instead of reporting her death, he leaves it in her room. More and more boredom, and then a little bit of murder here and there until the stupid ending. I was so happy it was over. It was a little comical seeing old ladies as some of the cast members that would normally be played by stupid dumb blondes fresh out of high school. They were in the "scariest" parts of the movie.
Avoid this movie. But if you like movies like "3 on a Meathook," check it out. That movie was boring with little to it. So is this. And it's just as odd. So, if you liked that, you'll find this enjoyable. I, personally, thought it was terrible.
N/A
saint_brett1 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
'Crazed' is the daring new trend, filmed out of the late 70's, that shocked audiences worldwide.
Oh wait, I've seen this already.
So, this is the second time I'll have seen it then.
That's right, this lead actress, Adrian Pennino, is confessing her love to a goat before departing for the big smoke.
I get this movie mixed-up with 'Pigs.' The two lead actresses look the same and they both have similar storylines.
Is that that Pretenders "Don't get Me Wrong" chick driving around the countryside?
Okay, I just wasted 5-minutes swapping this movie for 'Pigs' as it got the better of me if they were the same movie. They're not.
'Pigs' is also known as 'Daddy's Deadly Darling.' Oh, this crap, 'Crazed' also comes under an alias - 'Slipping Into Darkness.' Hmm.
There's hissing static on this DVD which interferes with my audible senses and reminds me of a hot summer day, or cicadas. And I hate Summer.
What's-her-name goes into a seizure when waking up to find Jim Morrison in her bed. Yeah, light her fire, dude. Set her on fire. Set her on fire. Set her on fire.
What a hoot this "okay" chick, and her foul mouth, is at the 7-minute mark. She looks like cousin Dale in drag from Walley World.
Chrissie Hynde has trouble finding boarding when in the city and encounters nothing but creeps, pervs, and weirdos.
Love the guy with no shirt on. "Maybe we can make an arrangement?" What a hot bod. He would have discounted 50% of the rent with that Adonis of a chiselled body of his.
She finally settles on a manor with an old lady from Panama, who has the 'Forest Gump' legs and an oddball handyman - Grahame.
We're given a brief background of Grahame.
He's an outcast who was discharged from the army because he's miniature in structure and only a half body man.
Grahame's crossed between Dwight Yoakam meets Jeff Fahey in a Smog Strangler kind of way.
He quickly takes a liking to Adrian Pennino but she secretly despises him and his tiny built frame structure. He's punitive downstairs as well and can't maintain a hard approach to female company.
Is that Tracey Walter from 'Repo Man?' He always was a quirky actor. He probably should have been cast as the lead in this? Instead, he plays a teacher who's drank ten cups of industrial strength coffee beforehand.
Not much doing in this movie other than people standing around with hands on hips and looking for direction.
Come on, director fella, where are we going with this movie?
It's not explained why Adrian left her rural home for the big smoke.
She barely attends college.
She sits around her apartment dabbling in illegal activities and daydreaming.
Yes, she has an 8/10 body only because she's tanned. (She really does resemble the actress from 'Pigs' AKA 'Daddy's Deadly Darling.')
It's revealed an exorcism was preformed on Grahame who was traded in as a child by his parents and left unwanted because of learning defects.
By night he mans a homeless dude's shelter and visits massage parlors which conjures up past memories and invokes torment.
Meanwhile, what's-her-name is running a regular bordello out of her new residence and injecting illegal drugs into her system. She becomes a layabout to support her drug addiction and sleeps with all the students in her writing class.
Grahame musters up the courage to ask Chrissie Hynde out on a date but is rejected twice. Take the hint, guy - beat it.
Humiliated, he caves in to temptation and assaults her on impulse, has an accident in his pants after only three seconds, panics, then confesses his love for her before blitzing it out of there.
Unfortunately there's a disgusting scene right after this which has offended me and I no longer wish to proceed.
Oh wait, I've seen this already.
So, this is the second time I'll have seen it then.
That's right, this lead actress, Adrian Pennino, is confessing her love to a goat before departing for the big smoke.
I get this movie mixed-up with 'Pigs.' The two lead actresses look the same and they both have similar storylines.
Is that that Pretenders "Don't get Me Wrong" chick driving around the countryside?
Okay, I just wasted 5-minutes swapping this movie for 'Pigs' as it got the better of me if they were the same movie. They're not.
'Pigs' is also known as 'Daddy's Deadly Darling.' Oh, this crap, 'Crazed' also comes under an alias - 'Slipping Into Darkness.' Hmm.
There's hissing static on this DVD which interferes with my audible senses and reminds me of a hot summer day, or cicadas. And I hate Summer.
What's-her-name goes into a seizure when waking up to find Jim Morrison in her bed. Yeah, light her fire, dude. Set her on fire. Set her on fire. Set her on fire.
What a hoot this "okay" chick, and her foul mouth, is at the 7-minute mark. She looks like cousin Dale in drag from Walley World.
Chrissie Hynde has trouble finding boarding when in the city and encounters nothing but creeps, pervs, and weirdos.
Love the guy with no shirt on. "Maybe we can make an arrangement?" What a hot bod. He would have discounted 50% of the rent with that Adonis of a chiselled body of his.
She finally settles on a manor with an old lady from Panama, who has the 'Forest Gump' legs and an oddball handyman - Grahame.
We're given a brief background of Grahame.
He's an outcast who was discharged from the army because he's miniature in structure and only a half body man.
Grahame's crossed between Dwight Yoakam meets Jeff Fahey in a Smog Strangler kind of way.
He quickly takes a liking to Adrian Pennino but she secretly despises him and his tiny built frame structure. He's punitive downstairs as well and can't maintain a hard approach to female company.
Is that Tracey Walter from 'Repo Man?' He always was a quirky actor. He probably should have been cast as the lead in this? Instead, he plays a teacher who's drank ten cups of industrial strength coffee beforehand.
Not much doing in this movie other than people standing around with hands on hips and looking for direction.
Come on, director fella, where are we going with this movie?
It's not explained why Adrian left her rural home for the big smoke.
She barely attends college.
She sits around her apartment dabbling in illegal activities and daydreaming.
Yes, she has an 8/10 body only because she's tanned. (She really does resemble the actress from 'Pigs' AKA 'Daddy's Deadly Darling.')
It's revealed an exorcism was preformed on Grahame who was traded in as a child by his parents and left unwanted because of learning defects.
By night he mans a homeless dude's shelter and visits massage parlors which conjures up past memories and invokes torment.
Meanwhile, what's-her-name is running a regular bordello out of her new residence and injecting illegal drugs into her system. She becomes a layabout to support her drug addiction and sleeps with all the students in her writing class.
Grahame musters up the courage to ask Chrissie Hynde out on a date but is rejected twice. Take the hint, guy - beat it.
Humiliated, he caves in to temptation and assaults her on impulse, has an accident in his pants after only three seconds, panics, then confesses his love for her before blitzing it out of there.
Unfortunately there's a disgusting scene right after this which has offended me and I no longer wish to proceed.
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