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Deranged

Deranged

5,8 /10 (117 Votes)
1974 EN 83 min

Overview

A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.

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Release date

02/02/1974

Votes

117

Popularity

2.3

Pretty Sally Mae died a very unnatural death...But the worst hasn't happened to her yet!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

83 min

Budget

$200,000

Original Soundtrack

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John Chard

John Chard

2014-11-13

⭐ 7

Mama? Mama? Deranged is brought to us by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen. It's a telling of the Ed Gein story, the Plainfield Ghoul who in the 1950s shocked small town Americana to its very core. The names have been changed to, protect, well no that's not true, it's a product of its time is why, but this is an Ed Gein film, and it's a troubling and worthy piece of art in equal measure. Certain instances have been spruced up for poetic licence, but the core essence of Gein and his madness exists wholesale. Roberts Blossom plays Gein (as Ezra Cobb), a man so tied to his mama's apron strings…

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