I, Madman (1989)

Director: Tibor Takács

Starring: Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook

A bookshop clerk and wannabe actress starts seeing the disfigured killer from her 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her. She tries to convince her cop boyfriend, but to no avail.

‘I, Madman’ is not to be confused with 1981’s slasher movie ‘Madman’.

‘I, Madman’ happens to be the name of a novel…in the movie, that is. Virginia, who works at a book store, is obsessed with writer Michael Brand’s work. In search of his book ‘I, Madman’ she one day arrives home to find the book in front of her apartment.

Much of the events in the film is the visualization of the story as Virginia reads it. But when people start dying, the villain in the book becomes very real to her and the lines between fact and fiction starts to blur. Virginia’s boyfriend is Richard, a cop who investigates the murders. When Virginia tells him she knows when the next murder will take place, he disregards it as her obsession with the novels – especially with her having a habit of scaring herself whilst reading the novels. Virginia believes the killer to be author Michael Brand himself.

The villain is a truly creepy character and looks like an antagonist straight out of your worst nightmare. The make-up is very well done. In general, I rather enjoyed this movie and thought it wasn’t half bad.

Jenny Wright was nominated for Best Actress portraying Virginia.

Would I watch it again? Although a good watch, I somehow doubt it.