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Delirium

  • 19791979
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  • 1h 28m
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4.1/10
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Delirium (1979)
An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.
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An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Peter Maris
  • Writers
    • Eddie Krell(story)
    • Jim Loew(story)
    • Peter Maris
  • Stars
    • Turk Cekovsky
    • Debi Chaney
    • Terry TenBroek
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  • Director
    • Peter Maris
  • Writers
    • Eddie Krell(story)
    • Jim Loew(story)
    • Peter Maris
  • Stars
    • Turk Cekovsky
    • Debi Chaney
    • Terry TenBroek
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    • 15User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
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    Turk Cekovsky
    • Paul Dollingeras Paul Dollinger
    Debi Chaney
    • Susan Norcrossas Susan Norcross
    Terry TenBroek
    Terry TenBroek
    • Larry Meadas Larry Mead
    • (as Terry Ten Broek)
    Barron Winchester
    • Eric Stemas Eric Stem
    Bob Winters
    • Donald Andrewsas Donald Andrews
    Garrett Bergfeld
    • Markas Mark
    Nick Panouzis
    • Charlie Guntheras Charlie Gunther
    Harry Gorsuch
    • Capt. Hearnas Capt. Hearn
    Chris Chronopolis
    • Det. Parkeras Det. Parker
    Lloyd Schattyn
    • Det. Simmsas Det. Simms
    Jack Garvey
    • Devlinas Devlin
    Mike Kalist
    • Specteras Specter
    Myron Kozman
    • Wellsas Wells
    Pat Knapko
    • Jenny Thompsonas Jenny Thompson
    Letty Garris
    • Hitchhikeras Hitchhiker
    Charlotte Littrel
    • Vietnamese prostituteas Vietnamese prostitute
    • Director
      • Peter Maris
    • Writers
      • Eddie Krell(story)
      • Jim Loew(story)
      • Peter Maris
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    • Trivia
      Filmed in St. Louis and its world premiere was held there on July 20, 1979.
    • Alternate versions
      The film was banned in the UK and included on the DPP 72 list of video nasties. It was eventually issued as "Psycho Puppet" on the Viz video label in 1987 after 16 secs of BBFC cuts to edit a scene of a topless woman being impaled with a spear.
    • Connections
      Featured in Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)

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    "Nasty" but really pretty forgettable psycho-on-the-loose movie
    Man, you gotta love the swinging 70's! The villain of this movie goes to a "job interview" and manages (despite being very creepy-looking and apparently mute) to pick up a secretary, who takes him back to her place for sex, but after he proves impotent he stabs her to death. He then steals a car and picks up a leggy, hot-pants clad female hitch-hiker, but even after he nearly kills them both driving like a maniac, they still end up going skinny-dipping together and he strangles her in the surf. He next meets a young farm girl, but even though he is trespassing on her property, she is more interested in flirting with him than calling the police, and she gets a pitchfork in the neck for her troubles. Then he actually goes into a house where a woman is taking a bath, and he probably would have done great with her too, but he kind of blows it by taking a butcher knife to her delivery boy. The investigating officer meanwhile seems far more interested in making dates with the pretty roommate of the first victim than he is in solving the case. Fortunately, the girl whose case he IS trying to crack is still working as a secretary at the office where the killer had his "interview" and she stumbles upon a connection between this out-of-control "psycho puppet", her boss, and shadowy organization of Vietnam vet vigilantes who may be behind the mysterious "suicides" of a number of criminals who had gotten off on technicalities--at which point this movies turns from a cheap "Halloween" knock-off to something that anticipates the later (and much better) Michael Douglas film "The Star Chamber".

    This is one of the movies that was banned in Britain in the 1980's as a "video nasty", but was so unremarkable in its native America that it is virtually forgotten today (and not even available on DVD). I'm not sure exactly sure what about this upset the Brits. There's some gore effects, but they're not that impressive. There is a lot of nudity, and the mixture of nudity and violence often got the hackles of the British censors up. This movie is also kind of misogynistic in that ALL the women are pretty much brain-dead and about as sexually discriminating as rabid alley cats in heat. (I especially like the first victim who is "going to tell everybody" that a guy she just met hours earlier and doesn't know from Adam "can't get it up"). But frankly its notoriety on the other side of the pond really gives this movie a lot more credit than it probably deserves.

    More than the earlier "Halloween" or the later "The Star Chamber" this really reminded me of another late 70's film called "Killer's Delight" (aka "The Dark Ride"). That, however, is a much better movie, and it IS available on DVD, so if you're thinking about watching this, see that one instead. This is kind of "nasty" I guess, but mostly it's pretty forgettable.
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    • Release date
      • April 30, 1981 (Mexico)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Psycho Puppet
    • Filming locations
      • St. Louis, Missouri, USA
    • Production companies
      • Delirium Associates
      • Worldwide Productions (III)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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