This Italian-helmed, US acted film is a straight up slasher film, as opposed to a giallo. It got itself banned as a video nasty due to the gore, which is plentiful, but is just kind okay due to the plot, which is threadbare.
It's a kind of mix of Halloween, with an escaped mental patient heading for home, with a little bit of Maniac thrown in too, as he's a tortured soul who is revulsed himself by his actions. You see George keeps flashing back to some time when he was a child, and keeps seeing images of his mother's severed head opening her eyes and looking at him. After taking part in an experimental treatment, George is considered healthy and released, immediately running off to go kill people.
Elsewhere, mother-of-three Sharon is having trouble balancing her new love life with the behaviour of her son C.J, who is a bit of handful to say the least. Not only is he prank calling the babysitter from inside the house, he's also pretending to be stabbed by a strange man who is hanging around outside the house. Guess what happens when a strange man does start hanging around the house? C.J should have read the story "The Boy Who Cried I've Been Stabbed Too Many Times."
That's basically the plot - George starts hanging around the place looking for babysitters to kill while C.J mentally tortures his mother and various babysitters before everything comes to a head in an absolutely blood drenched ending. Pity there's not much happening between the violent murders.
It looks like the actors were all amatuers but to me they did okay, especially the mother, George, and C.J. As a father of a kid who also loves pranking me, the actress that played the mother was pretty good as a person losing her mind.
This one is pretty easy to find due to its status as a video nasty. You might even remember the cover from the early eighties!
It's a kind of mix of Halloween, with an escaped mental patient heading for home, with a little bit of Maniac thrown in too, as he's a tortured soul who is revulsed himself by his actions. You see George keeps flashing back to some time when he was a child, and keeps seeing images of his mother's severed head opening her eyes and looking at him. After taking part in an experimental treatment, George is considered healthy and released, immediately running off to go kill people.
Elsewhere, mother-of-three Sharon is having trouble balancing her new love life with the behaviour of her son C.J, who is a bit of handful to say the least. Not only is he prank calling the babysitter from inside the house, he's also pretending to be stabbed by a strange man who is hanging around outside the house. Guess what happens when a strange man does start hanging around the house? C.J should have read the story "The Boy Who Cried I've Been Stabbed Too Many Times."
That's basically the plot - George starts hanging around the place looking for babysitters to kill while C.J mentally tortures his mother and various babysitters before everything comes to a head in an absolutely blood drenched ending. Pity there's not much happening between the violent murders.
It looks like the actors were all amatuers but to me they did okay, especially the mother, George, and C.J. As a father of a kid who also loves pranking me, the actress that played the mother was pretty good as a person losing her mind.
This one is pretty easy to find due to its status as a video nasty. You might even remember the cover from the early eighties!