Crazed (1982)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Richard Cassidy

Writer:

Richard Cassidy (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A lonely, mother-dominated man becomes obsessed by a beautiful young tenant in his mother's boarding house...

Plot Keywords:

Boarding House | Psychopath | Drowning | Corps | Epilepsy

Cast

Laszlo Papas	...	Grahame
Belle Mitchell	...	Mrs. Brewer
Beverly Ross	...	Karen
T.J. McFadden	...	Rodney
Rigg Kennedy	...	Chuck
Helen Rogler	...	Mrs. Ross
Marguerite Price	...	Room Renter #1
Stefanie Auerbach	...	Room Renter #2
Jeffrey Lawrence Ellis	...	Room Renter #3
James Arone	...	Wacko Conductor (as Jim Arone)
Robert Payne	...	Market Customer
David Kaufman	...	Cashier
Martin Robin	...	Cashier
Emma M. Benavides	...	Prostitute
Michael DeLorenzo	...	Soldier

Also Known As:

Blood Shed (video title)
Slipping Into Darkness (video title)

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Amityville, Long Island, New York, USA

A second review of this film

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!