Deranged (1974 film)

Deranged
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jeff Gillen Alan Ormsby
Screenplay by	Alan Ormsby
Produced by	Tom Karr
Starring	Roberts Blossom Cosette Lee Leslie Carlson Robert Warner
Cinematography	Jack McGowan
Music by	Carl Zittrer
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Release date	March 20, 1974 (1974-03-20)
Running time	82 minutes
Countries	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	US$200,000[1]

Deranged (also known as Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile)^[1] is a 1974 psychological horror film directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen, and starring Roberts Blossom. Its plot, loosely based on the crimes of Ed Gein, follows Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged man in a rural Midwestern community who begins a string of serial murders and grave robberies after the death of his mother, a religious fanatic who raised him to be a misogynist. Though based on Gein, the film's title is misleading since Gein never experimented with necrophilia; although a necrophile is also defined as having "an obsessive fascination with death and corpses."

Funded by an American concert promoter on a small budget, the production took place in Oshawa, Ontario in the winter of 1973, with a largely Canadian cast and crew. The film premiered in Los Angeles on March 20, 1974.

The film had disappeared since its release in 1974; however, it was rediscovered in Florida in the mid-1990s and was released into home video by distributor America International Pictures’ parent company Metro Goldwyn Mayer.^[2]