Mar 13, 2022
Delirium (1979)
"Paul, did he try to kill the roommate of the girl who was murdered here the other night? Is there any connection between the two incidents?"
"I don't know yet."
"You know who he is?"
"We get our story, you'll get your story, okay?"
#delirium#1979#slasher#video nasty#american cinema#peter maris#richard yalem#Turk Cekovsky#Debi Chaney#Terry TenBroek#Barron Winchester#bob winters#Garrett Bergfeld#Nick Panouzis#Harry Gorsuch#Chris Chronopolis#Lloyd Schattyn#Jack Garvey#Mike Kalist#Myron Kozman#Pat Knapko#probably only of interest to those poor fools (like me) who are interested in finding every film that ended up on the fabled dpp video#nasties list in the 80s. like several other films on the list‚ this probably didn't deserve it: sure it's a little horrible and kind of#misogynistic (like most nasties) but there were contemporary mainstream action and thriller films that were stronger. whatever; as to this#film‚ it's supposedly the result of one film (a stalk and slasher) being abandoned and the footage rolling into another (urban conspiracy#thriller). it isn't hard to see the joins (the two plotlines don't really intersect outside of one or two dialogue references) and the end#result is definitely uneven and a little flabby but it isn't the worst I've seen. the conspiracy element is the better filmed of the two‚#and the very ending is surprisingly effective but it can't quite excuse some major failings. most notably‚ flashback scenes set in Vietnam#clearly shot on an abandoned lot in the US and‚ most bizarrely to a uk viewer‚ set to Approaching Menace aka the bit of library music that#found immortality as the Mastermind theme tune.
