Deranged (1974)

19741h 36mdir. Alan OrmsbyCanada, United Statescomedy horrorhorror film

With Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson

Directed by Alan Ormsby

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Deranged (also known as Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile) is a 1974 American psychological horror film directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen, and starring Roberts Blossom. Its plot, loosely based on the crimes of Ed Gein, follows Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged man in a rural Midwestern community who begins a string of serial murders and grave robberies after the death of his mother Amanda, a religious fanatic who raised him to be a misogynist. The film features a diegetic narration in which newspaper columnist Tom Simms occasionally appears and narrates the events depicted. Though based on Gein, the film's title is misleading since Gein never experimented with necrophilia (although a necrop

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