MADMAN
Total 80's cheese, for better or for worse

  One of the more amusingly stupid slasher movies I've seen, I actually haven't seen Madman in years but I figured I'd bang out a review because...I don't really know why.  Leave me alone.

A bunch of campers in the woods are told a tale over the fire of Madman Marz.  Marz hacked up his family with an axe once, and legend has it, if you speak his name above a whisper, he'll probably come and kill you.  So needless to say, one of the campers leaps up and shouts out "Hey Madman Marz, come 'n get me!"  Scratch one bunch of campers.

From thereon in, the plot is firmly in the "don't go in the barn" vein.  That is, one person goes into the woods, and doesn't come back.  So this girl follows him, and she doesn't come back.  So this guy goes looking for the girl, and...yeah, you get the idea.

The best moment has to be when one girl is peering under her car hood when Marz (who looks like a Sasquatch with a pug nose) jumps on the hood, neatly cutting off her head.  I couldn't stop laughing.

Still, this is bad, and hilariously bad.  Note the awful, super-twangy "The Ballad Of Madman Marz" played, if I recall correctly, twice in the movie.  Or possibly the most terrible love song I've ever heard in my life, played during the hot tub scene.  If that blonde girl looks familiar, she should; she's Gaylen Ross from Dawn Of The Dead!

It probably would've scared me had I seen it when I was twelve.  Not recommended except to connoisseurs of 80's slasher flicks who like 'em cheesy.  CrueGirl, this one's for you!  Also known as Madman Marz and The Legend Lives.  Not much of a legend here, I'm afraid.

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