Directed by:
Tibor TakácsScreenplay:
David ChaskinCinematography:
Bryan EnglandComposer:
Michael HoenigCast:
Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook, Mary Pat Gleason, Christopher Kriesa, Bruce Wagner, Nelson Welch, Vance Valencia, Stephanie HodgeVOD (1)
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Virginia works at a used book store. She's really into horror novels and discovers a really good book. It's called "I, Madman" and it's about an insane doctor who cuts off people's noses, ears, and hair and puts them on his face to please a girl he likes. Only Virginia discovers that the book is nonfiction, and every time she picks up the book to read it, she sees him. The insane doctor from the book has escaped the book into our reality... (Shout! Factory)
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I, Madman is a stylishly filmed horror fairy story riding on the wave of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (no wonder – screenwriter David Chaskin is screenwriter of Freddy’s Revenge). In this movie, however, the disfigured killer does not come into the real world through dreams, but through reading a cursed book. I, Madman is, from a technical point of view, a very respectable and well-made fantasy horror movie, but the plot is largely predictable and, for example, literally one step behind the audience during the last half hour. So, the tension didn't build and work at all for me. Nevertheless, it is definitely an interesting enterprise with a respectably dreamlike atmosphere and a charming main heroine.
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