Deranged is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

/American

United States

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 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 made in 1974 and directed by Alan Ormsby

Alan Ormsby

Alan Ormsby is an American director, screenwriter, make up artist, actor and author. He is best known for his work in the horror genre.-Film career:...

 and Jeff Gillen

Jeff Gillen

Actor, Director, Producer, Art Director, Set Design and Construction, Mentor, Owner of Great Southern Studios MiamiBest Known as Santa Claus in A Christmas Story Directed by Bob ClarkActor in Numerous Movies and Commercials....

. It is also known by the title Deranged: The Confessions of a Necrophile in the USA. It is a low-budget movie that has since become something of a cult film

Cult film

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...

 and is based on life of Ed Gein

Ed Gein

Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein - July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes...

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Plot summary

Ezra Cobb lives with his mother in an unidentified region of the Midwest. His mother, a religious fanatic, has indoctrinated him since childhood to hate women. Upon her death, Ezra digs her up again, believing that she is still alive.

Ever more deluded each passing day, Ezra digs up various bodies, restoring them from their decomposition and even using them as home decor. Soon, Ezra's obsessions go beyond the dead themselves, and he becomes a serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

. Luring women into his grasp, he soon finds various other "creative" ways in which to decorate his home.

Cast

• Roberts Blossom
  Roberts Blossom
  Roberts Scott Blossom was an American theater, film and television actor and poet. He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged...
  
   as Ezra Cobb
• Cosette Lee
  Cosette Lee
  Cosette Lee was a Toronto character, television and film actress.-Early life and career:Lee started performing at a young age; in 1920 at the age of 10 she performed as an impersonator as an opening act at a local movie theatre...
  
   as Amanda Cobb
• Leslie Carlson
  Leslie Carlson
  Leslie Carlson is a character, film and television actor. He acted on stage in both the U.S...
  
   as Tom Simms
• Robert Warner as Harlon Kootz
• Marcia Diamond as Jenny Kootz
• Brian Smeagle as Brad Kootz
• Arlene Gillen as Miss Johnson
• Robert McHeady as Sheriff
• Marian Waldman
  Marian Waldman
  Marian Ann Waldman was a Canadian actress. She was also a veteran stage actress for Toronto for many decades of her career.- Biography :...
  
   as Maureen Selby
• Jack Mather as Drunk
• Micki Moore as Mary Ransum
• Pat Orr as Sally

DVD releases

In 2002, MGM released Deranged as part of its "Midnite Movies" collection of double feature DVD

DVD

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s. It was released along with the 1980 feature film Motel Hell

Motel Hell

Motel Hell is a 1980 horror comedy film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Rory Calhoun as farmer, butcher, and meat entrepreneur Vincent Smith...

.

In 2007, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 released a 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition. The U.S. DVD received a cut R rating, the German version is unrated and uncut, with a brain scooping scene which is cut from the U.S. version, it is also in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, with both an English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

(dubbed) audio track and optional English and German subtitles. The Extras include: Deranged Chronicles - The Making of Deranged, The Ed Gein Story - Documentary, Ed Gein: American Maniac - Documentary, The Making of: Tim Ritter's Creep (an unofficial sequel to Deranged), Original Trailer, Unrated Version Trailer, Teaser Trailer and a 24-page booklet.