Delirium

MOVIE #1,566 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.24.24 This is majorly convoluted but it's also a wholly unique premise. It's not really a slasher or even a horror per say, but it's too vicious to be classified as a thriller . It's a Vietnam PTSD/social decay vigilante romp cloaked in the guise of a spree killer's tale that's more or less a bait and switch. These ‘extremists’ sure are quick to deviate from their game plan of only killing ‘bad’ guys, huh? The film isn't quite prescient but it hits on sociocultural aspects that never seem to go out of fashion. It’s probably best known for landing on the infamous “video nasties” list (it’s not really that nasty, honestly). Director Peter Maris has over a dozen credits of similar genre mashup-looking schlock spanning into the mid 00s. I liked this but not enough to explore his work further any time soon, for what it’s worth. The guy who played the older detective is named Larry Meade but he’s listed in the credits by the stage name “Terry Ten Broek” lol what?).

A quick programming note: This is the last watchlist Wednesday: the first of two randomly selected films from my Letterboxd. They ended up being quite an interesting pair as you’ll see in the next review.

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Delirium (also known as Psycho Puppet) is a 1979 American thriller film directed by Peter Maris and written by Maris and Richard Yalem. The film is one of the infamous "Video Nasties". It was released on October 1, 1979.