Deranged

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<B>Special Effects by Vincent Guastini</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Joyce..........Jane Hamilton</B></div> <div> <B>Frank..........Paul Siederman</B></div> <div> <B>Maryann........Jennifer Delora</B></div> <div> <B>Eugene.........James Gillis</B></div> <div> <B>Sheila.........Jill Cumer</B></div> <div> <B>Margaret.......Loretta Palmer</B></div> <div> <B>Young Maryann..Jessica Rose</B></div> <div> <B>Nick...........Gary Goldman</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Freemont...Harvey Siegel</B></div> <div> <B>Darren.........John Brett</B></div> <div> <B>Merrick........Frank Cole</B></div> <div> <B>Minister.......Daniel Chapman</B></div> <div> <B>Valet..........Bob Fitzpatrick</B></div> <div> <B>Teacher........Nancy Groff</B></div> <div> <B>Baby Frankie...Max Hamilton</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Jane Hamilton suffers from paranoid and for us comedic nightmares--vision-flashbacks involving her dead father who had repeatedly sexually molested her before his apparent suicide. The visions include everyone else in her circle's wanting to exploit her sexually or get at her mutlti-million dollar inheritance.  We get a picture of a guilt complex due to childhood trauma and lifelong abuse on the part of mother, father husband stepsister men etc. The result is a trip through Joyce's madness in which she experiences all manner of sexual fantasies and murderous visions based on her Elektra complex and isolation. If you're sitting around completely alone, you could watch this for the laughable portrayal of paranoid schizophrenia - or is it? It is. The inevitable response to a film that refuses to clue the viewer in on the reality of the events that take place, or shamelessly refutes the most reasonable interpretation of events in a last freeze frame as this one does, is outrage and dismissal on the part of the viewer. Humans enjoy knowing what is going on--you won't get that in this movie. Despite, or because of, the endless dead-end clues, the portrayal of paranoia becomes acceptable.  However, we were not generally bored with this film in spite of its foibles. In addition, the many brief encounters with her "tormentors" provide a lively pace and some very scary action and imagery. The swarm of corpses in Jane's appartment is chilling. Porn star Jamie Gillis stands tall as Daddy. His version of the lullaby song is chillingly off as is his nickname for Jane, "Daddy's delight".</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Sister has eyes on Frank, who warns that grndmother cant support them forever. Frank is heading for JFK to embark on a one month trip to London. Joyce hears the vouce of her sister warning her that she has her euyes on Frank. Frank leaves with a kiss and the warning that she shouldn't undertake anything alone: "Remember what the doctotr said." She nearly breaks down and explains to sister that the new baby and Frank's departere have unnerbved her. When the bickering sisters arrive at her mother's apartment which looks like an art gallery, they are greated by a baby shower for Joyce. Mother, bitch, complains that her daufhter had married a Brooklyn bum. After opening a bklue baby blanket, Joyce heasrs the voice of her father: he closes by calling her Daddy's delight. In the bathroom, Joyce has a flashback/vision to a scary/funny funeraral ceremony for her father featuring her disfunctional family, ending with the assembled offereing her straight-edge raizors with which to slash her wrists. They clearly resent her inheritance of Daddy's millions. Sister kleaves Joyce off aty her apartment, she enters confused and calls for Merrick the doorman, who falls out a door, apparently having dozed off. She enters her apartment. A masked man has been lurking in her dormroom and attacks her. He stamps on her pregnant belly a few times but she gets hold of a scissors and puts it through his eye. Though the intruder has been killed, Later, Joyce looks to have fully recovered and it appears that the baby has survived. However, it is soon clear that the baby was killed, and she is in therapy. She describes the voices she has been hearing. She admits the voices started when her father had died. She imagines a child in the bed. She has not heard from Frank since the attack. A man with groceries arrives and she puts a pillow under her frock so that it appears the has not lost the baby. Joyce is confused about who has visited--a roommate or the grocery man or her dead father. Marianne comes to visit next and she has delusions of the intruder at every turn. She tries to ignore him, but he circles around with a flashlight on her during the entire visit. Apparently, the body of the intruder has been tucked under a table, and she hasn't done anything about it. Daddy shows up in her bathtub having cut his throat. Nick comes by with some pasta dishes. She eats it like an animal and and orders some icecream and a pickle --for the baby. She gets an imaginary visit from the family and they interogate her about daddy's death. Imaginary mother and her new husband, Darren, visit and try out the bed. The gantasies come hot and heavy with recriminations about her inheritance and warnings about what a bum Frank is from her family. Nick arrives and notices the smell, but chalks it up to morning sickness. She gets a call from the superintendent who is complaining about a strong smell. The body is decomposing fast. She gets a command from Frank to move the masked man to the closet. Daddy's corpse watches with slit trhoat from the bathroom. The mask comes off the corpse, and it turns out to be a quite decomposed Frank. The camp priest is back with her marriage with Frank in which every9one is calling her "sucker". She imagines again that she is with the psychiatrist, Dr. Fremont. Nick arrives again, and Joyce has gotten sleeping pills from the imaginary Dr. Fremont, so has difficulty arousing. She lets him in and dresses in a night gown, stretching seductively. She fantasiezes that she's with Frank, and Nick tentatively joins her. She then gets a message from her father, and comes up with a straight edge razor and cuts his throat. She imagines her father getting in bed with her--presumably a memory. Marianne arrives and finds out that she has miscrried. Joyce asks her how she got in and the response is that she had left the dopor unlocked. She has a fantasy (again, a memory/) of Marianne having sex with Frank. Marianne asks where Frank is and Joyce shows her to the closet and and Nick falls on her and Joyce holds the knife to her. Marianne admits the plot against her as she's chased around the room before Joyce finally pushes the carving knife through her. The victims now are really cluttering the apartment, and Joyce has set up a number of candles, perhaps to mask the smell. Joyce sits and sews in an apartment littered with corpses when suddenly the ddecayed Frank buisds her join them, followed by words of encouragement friom Daddy and Nick and Maryanne. Joyce locks herself in her bedroom as a candlefire breaks out, but the corpses break the door, before briefly disappearing. Suddenly arms reackh out of the bed grabbing her before the little army returns encouraging her to kill herself and "Live again and again and again!" As the apartment burns, mother calls and Joyce tells her that the whole gang is at her place. She stumbles outside and walks the streets singing the lullaby song. A closing still indicates Frank may still be alive and in the area.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>