Igor and the Lunatics (1985)

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Director:

W.J. Parolini (as Billy Parolini)

Writers:

Jocelyn Beard, W.J. Parolini (as Billy Parolini)

Stars:

Joseph Eero, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Joseph Eero	...	Tom Turner
Mary Ann Schacht	...	Mary Ann Merson
Joe Niola	...	Ygor
T.J. Glenn	...	Paul (as T.J. Michaels)
Joan Ellen Delaney	...	Sharon (as Joanellen Delaney)
Peter Dain	...	Hawk
Kathleen Dennehy	...	Colette
Buddy Durrant	...	The Boy
Bobby Hargrave	...	Bernard
Constance Rodgers	...	Sara
Edward Mears	...	Captain Hood
Brendan Faulkner	...	Conway
Thomas Doran	...	Slim (as Tom Doran)
Patti Cohen-Hecht	...	Carol Quackerbush
Christopher Chandley	...	Jimmy Quackenbush

Storyline

Horror movie about a Charles Manson-like cult leader and his deranged, sex-mad, murderous followers who were captured and sent to prison, only to make probation 16 years later and launch a bloody revenge. Igor and his flock set out to smite the townspeople who sent them up, the former members who betrayed them to the law, and just about anyone else who gets in their way.

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Plot Keywords:

igor | revenge | dress ripped off | sawmill | circular saw | 

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Taglines:

Still Crazy After All These Years!

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Official Sites:

Troma

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

December 1985 (USA)

Also Known As:

Igor y los lunáticos

Filming Locations:

Carmel, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Troma Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Trailer Trauma 3: 80s Horrorthon (2017)

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Soundtracks

Most music Performed by "Exhibit A"
Sonia Rutstein
Janet Guerra
Diane Bowman
Bill Monroe

User Reviews

lame low-budget, incoherent horror flick about a small murderous hippie religious cult

Pretty incoherent movie about a man who belonged to and left a 1960s superficially hippie religious cult, who fights them sixteen years later. The man has a child with one of the other cultists, who during a raid by the police is hidden away, and taken by another man named Hawk who lives in a small cabin by the river. The cult kills some of its followers or some of the people in town. It's hard to keep track of who characters are, or what time period the scenes are supposed to be taking place. The leader gets paroled sixteen years later (I got that from the box - I missed the amount of time in the movie). Nobody is made to look any older, not noticeably, anyway.

One murder is done with a large circular logging saw, others are done with knives or a crossbow. I never heard the title character's name mentioned in the movie, but he's the one who overacts the most, hooting and hollering.

The movie is patched together pretty poorly, with voice-over helping (not much) to explain what is going on. Some of the sound effects were pretty bad. A man is getting punched, and we hear the sound of a whip cracking. A woman fires a gun, and we don't hear it fire, but hear a ricochet instead! It doesn't seem to have been done for comical effect.