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This is partly inspired by the real life murderer Ed Gein. Ezra is a middle aged momma's boy. He's also a pet moron.Mommy is a raving twisty herself as she is a zealot and always preaching about "dirty women"(finest kind).So when mom drops dead old Ez starts to get lonely.

Well Ezra starts hearing mom's voice after a year. She's lonely & so is he. He digs her up and brings her back home where everybody is happy.His neighbors try and set him up with a woman.This is a really funny scene as his date tries to seduce him. She's kind of crazy herself and tells Ez that her dead husband wants them to play beneath the sheets. Well, she winds up under the sheets permanently.

Ez starts digging up the graveyard and bringing mom some company.He also starts semi stalking a waitress.Finally he sandbags her, brings her back to his place and it gets wild from there.She finds herself trussed to a chair with a table full of rotting corpses.Ez is dressed in the skin of a dead woman.There is no way out of this house of hell.

Ez really goes off the deep end on a trip to town. It involves a rifle, a young girl and a harrowing chase through the woods.This is another gripping scene that spirals into complete madness.

There are a few drawbacks. This movie could have done without the narrator.When he popped up it seemed like we were in a different movie.Old Ezra is the most sympathetic person in the movie.Everyone else is cruel, stupid or as nutty as he is.

On the upside Roberts Blossom gives a great portrayal of Ezra. You feel for Ezra and can really understand his madness.There are many shocking and disturbing scenes in this movie. But it uses suggestion rather than out and out gore.It looks rather tame compared to slasher flicks but that's why this is better. I had to wait 25 years to see this film and all in all it was worth the wait.

If you can stomach the plot of this movie, then I think that it's fair to say that you will like it. The bloodshed is kept to a minimum (considering the subject matter), but the film should still probably be avoided if you are squeamish or easily offended. However, for people like me who can enjoy a warped sense of humour and don't mind a little gore, it's a pleasant way to spend some time.

FINALLY got to see 'Deranged' recently after wanting to for years, and what a surprise it is. Low budget yes, but takes its subject matter much more seriously than you would expect. There are some touches of black comedy in places, but overall this is no "funny" gorefest ala the 'Evil Dead' flicks. Roberts Blossom puts in an excellent performance as Ezra Cobb, the Ed Gein inspired protagonist. You may not totally understand why he ends up doing what he does, but Blossom successfully conveys Cobb's loneliness and isolation, which explodes into full blown delusional behaviour.

The only negative comment I have about 'Deranged' is the clumsy and unnecessary intrusions of the narrator into the plot. Without that we'd be looking at a complete classic. Even so, 'Deranged' is much more than a "video nasty" and deserves a much larger audience.

Ezra Cobb (Roberts Blossom) loves his mother and is intimated by women. When his mother dies, he still hears her voice and decides to keep her around the house. But he does not want his mother to get lonely and has to get her some new friends...

Blossom is amazing as Ezra Cobb. You can say what you want about this film, but one thing you cannot say is that Blossom is a horrible actor -- he made Cobb come to life and seem as believable as such a character could be. Cobb, being the movie version of Ed Gein, is more or less exactly the way I picture Gein being. Blossom's facial expressions make this whole picture worthwhile.

I would like to commend them for the faithful version of this story. So many people take the Ed Gein story and add all these elements to it or just take a grain of it and run wild (as in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" or "Silence of the Lambs"). While not all of this movie is factually what happened in Gein's life, the similarities are quite striking -- right down to the death of the hardware store clerk and the gutting of the woman like a deer.

Although this film is now almost forty years old, almost nothing is lost from the passage of time. In some ways, the film quality really adds to the setting (the story could only take place in the past). Another great feature is the narrator, who enters the story at random intervals to do an overview of the situation. Not only is he great, but watch the camera -- in one scene, the camera leaves Ezra in one room, goes to the narrator, and returns to Ezra in another room, in a seamless fashion (no cuts or edits) and visually showing the passage of time. It is quite well put together.

For a great Gein film, check this out. Whether Tobe Hooper admits to it or not, I do not know, but he owes a debt to this film (much as John Carpenter owes a debt to the late Bob Clark -- who coincidentally produced this). This film is plotted wonderfully, acted wonderfully, and flows wonderfully. With one small detail changed (the plastic looking blood) this would probably be considered a lost classic. Heck, maybe it already should be. (Okay, and maybe we should not be able to read the license plate saying Ontario.)

For a bonus: not only is the legendary Bob Clark an uncredited producer, but Tom Savini worked as a makeup artist for the film's corpses. This was Savini's first film, and the undisputed horror effects master is still going stronger today.

I have to say that I wasn't really expecting much from this 1974 movie from writer Alan Ormsby when I sat down in 2022 to watch it for the first time. Sure, I hadn't ever heard about the movie, but as I had the chance to watch it, of course I did so.

Turns out that "Deranged" was actually a rather wholesome and entertaining movie. Sure, it was a bit far out there, given the contents of its storyline, so it is not a movie that will appeal to just anyone in the audience. But take into consideration that this was made in 1974, so the movie is not so visually brutal as newer movies of the same genre.

What made "Deranged" work was a combination of the well-written storyline and the stellar performance by Roberts Blossom - playing Ezra Cobb. He was really nicely cast for that role, and he put on a good performance in bringing the deranged Ezra to life on the screen.

Sure, the movie is 48 years old already and the visual effects are definitely showing signs of aging. But luckily "Deranged" is not a movie that is really depending on visual effects to carry it, because of a properly written storyline and the acting performances.

I was genuinely entertained by "Deranged" from directors Jeff Gillen and Alan Ormsby.

My rating of the 1974 movie "Deranged" lands on a six out of ten stars.

Ezra Cobb has been taking care of his bed-ridden, domineering mother all his life and has been listening to her hateful rants against evil women and diseased sluts for about as long. When the nasty old cow finally dies, Ezra - in his own quiet way - finally loses it. He digs up her corpse and brings it back home, placing it back in bed and carrying on as though nothing has happened. But as Mother continues to rot and decay, Ez realizes that he must replace her skin. And so she won't get lonely, he brings home the corpses of recently deceased matrons to keep her company. Ez becomes quite adept at making skin masks and other nifty trinkets out of dead flesh and bone. But alas, grave robbing isn't enough for Ezra after a while. Soon, he's kidnapping and murdering live women. But nobody suspects the dumb and seemingly harmless Ezra who was once so devoted to his sick mother...at least, that is, until a young local girl goes missing and the trail leads right to Ez's house.

"Deranged" is based, obviously, on the true case of Ed Gein, and actually sticks pretty close to the facts. Roberts Blossom as Ezra is truly creepy with his Elmer Fudd appearance and wardrobe and his wide, freaky eyes. He's also rather pathetic, and even though he's committing some of the most reprehensible acts known to man, you can't help but feel terribly sorry for him. Micki Moore as Mary is also really good in her role of the promiscuous waitress that Ezra brings home to be his wife. She's cool and level headed, a rarity in a 70s horror movie. Some of the sets are cheap looking and some of the cast can't act, and the whole film suffers from a dreadful soundtrack featuring the world's most depressing funeral home organ, but it's not a bad little film, really. It's not something I'd watch over and over again,but I'm not sorry I sat down to watch it.

Over the years there have been a number of films, both horror and thriller, that have been inspired by the real-life crimes of the infamous Ed Gein. Yet, this was the first film to be closely based on the real Ed Gein.

Reclusive old man loses his mind after the death of his mother and starts to rob graves. But that's just the beginning of terrors to come.

While In the Light of the Moon (2000) may be the more accurate film for the true story of Gein, Deranged is the most effectively frightening. Deranged is an example of low-budget film making at it's best. It sports a believably dark atmosphere and the feeling of chilling realism. In fact some sequences from this film (especially the midnight 'dinner' scene) are simply unforgettable.

The cast of the film is good, but the real highlight of it all is in it's star Robert Blossoms. Blossoms brings such a genuine believability to his crazed character and at times makes him quite sympathetic! That achievement alone is impressive.

Also of note, this was one of the early films for makeup FX artist Tom Savini and his creations for the film are well-done. Adding even more to the sheer spookiness of this film is it's musical score, which is comprised of religious songs.

While Deranged may not have the fame of other low-budgeters of it's day, it is none the less a masterful horror picture that deserves a place in the history of low-budget horror.

*** 1/2 out of ****

"Deranged" is a classic rural shocker that stars the excellent character actor Roberts Blossom as Ezra Cobb - Ez, to his friends. Ez goes off the deep end when his beloved mother (Cosette Lee) dies. He can't bear to be apart from her, so he brings her corpse home from the cemetery. Realizing that her body is in bad shape, he starts robbing other graves to help treat her body the best that it can be treated; he also brings home corpses for the "company".

Blossoms' superior performance, which enables one to sympathize, as much as is possible, with this insane person, makes this a must see. It's also noteworthy for being one of the earliest makeup effects credits for a young Tom Savini. Also on the makeup crew is the screenwriter Alan Ormsby. Ormsby and his co-director, Jeff Gillen, were associates of the filmmaker Bob Clark; they'd also done "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" and "Dead of Night" together. While the pacing is awfully slow at times, Ormsby and Gillen give "Deranged" wonderful rural atmosphere.

The makeup effects on this show are pretty good for low budget fare; fans will be pleased to note that the recent Blu-ray release includes a long excised scene of eye / brain scooping.

Ormsby based his screenplay on the real life exploits of the notorious Ed Gein, and apparently this version has been one of the most faithful to the true story for over 40 years now. Buffs, of course, are already aware that Gein also inspired such favourites as "Psycho", "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", and "The Silence of the Lambs".

The supporting cast - Robert Warner, Marcia Diamond, Robert McHeady ("Cannibal Girls"), Marian Waldman (the original "Black Christmas") - are good, but this is almost entirely Blossoms' show.

Some people take issue with the presence of the newspaperman / narrator character Tom Sims (Leslie Carlson, "Videodrome"), which admittedly is not really a necessary element.

Good stuff overall, but the ending is awfully abrupt.

Seven out of 10.

Given the good reviews, the cult status and the hype, I thought this was going to be a way better exploitation flick.

It's not.

Its rather slow and boring.

A disappointment

Ok, we've seen "Texas Chainsaw Massacure", "Motel Hell" and that other newer film I forgot the name but all are not as good as this one. This movie tells the true story of cannible Ed Gein known in this movie as Ezra Cobb. Ez is a sympathetic character in this movie and I really do feel sorry for him as he takes care of his ailing mother and then she passes away. Ez kidnaps her corpse and sends her home and treats her as if she were alive again. During his state of dementia he finds himself being facinated with embolming bodies, cannibalism and things that are down right gross. This one is one that must be seen for those into real life crimes of the deranged.

Deranged is a frustrating movie. It's so close to being good that I feel bad that I can't give it a better rating.

The first half of the film is pretty bad, campy and boring. It has a few interesting moments, although very brief, and a couple of laughs to sustain the viewer until the movie gets going in the second half. Unfortunately the second half isn't that much better. It does do an about-face however and starts to take itself more seriously. There is a nice scene where Ezra brings a pretty girl home, however, that is the high point of the movie.

What Deranged is lacking is a focus. Ed Gein wasn't a very prolific killer and neither is Ezra Cobb so there isn't much suspense in his stalking of victims. However, there also isn't much done about his use of dead human flesh and bone in making furniture etc. (which is what Gein did) other then in the scene with the pretty girl mentioned above. Deranged needed to focus on the bizarre hobby Ezra Cobb had instead of focusing on how unassuming he was and why nobody would ever peg him for a killer. Ezra was a dull country bumpkin, which makes the movie dull too.

Deranged is far too campy for the first 40 minutes for it to be totally enjoyable. Roberts Blossom does a nice job as Ezra, adding a bit of comedy to the film, however he's not very imposing and therefore not scary. While it has a couple of moments of interest, on the whole Deranged is a pretty dull movie, lacking in suspense, scares or insight into the life of Ezra Cobb. Deranged rates a 3 out of 10.

Based on the diabolical doings of psycho-mama's boy Ed Gein, this film is guaranteed to leave you feeling uneasy for days after viewing. Some images are so horrific that they are fairly certain to haunt your dreams. Character actor Roberts Blossom in his best role ever is chillingly good as the overly devoted son who, not quite all there to begin with, goes completely round the bend when his beloved mother dies. He digs the old lady up, brings her back to the family farm, restores her corpse, and kills an occasional female passerby to keep her company. It's every bit as strange as it sounds. But when it's over, you can't simply shrug it off and say to yourself, "Oh well, it's only a movie", because it's based on the truth. Viewers familiar with the Ed Gein case will note that the filmmakers have, for the most part, stuck close to the facts. It leaves a strong impression, and, to put it mildly, a rather disturbing one. What's truly amazing is that the filmmakers have brought a sense of humor to these gruesome events and it ISN'T offensive. DERANGED is one of the best scary/funny movies I have ever seen. It is most definitely not for children. As for the adults, you"ll just have to take your chances.

Serial killer Ed Gein becomes the inspiration for yet another film about a psychotic mama's boy who kills women and turns their skin into material to play dress up. This is more character driven than Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but has a moment or two just as frightening as anything out of that movie.

Serial Killers always were a subject of studies around the world and this case was one of most famous bringing to screen the Ed Gein's history and according some sources the most accurate ever done, even a low budge movie is remarkable well made, Roberts Blossom incredible portrait of Ezra/Ed's character from this bizarre true facts happened in Wisconsin state and had final chapter when Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, a minor mistake is about Ed's sexuality which wasn't so clear in the movie, maybe l don't appropriately has been realized!!

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First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5

Alan Ormsby, who of course would write another B-movie cult classic decades later with "The Substitute", brings us this Brit flick loosely based on Ed Gein. In this version, Ezra Cobb (Robert Blossom, best known for Escape from Alcatraz and Home Alone) pretty much goes completely mental when she passes on.

Blossom is extremely suitably creepy throughout and anytime he's on camera the movie soars yet the flip side of that is the on screen narrator who's pretty useless and temporally brings the film to a screeching halt. Thankfully these scenes are seldom enough as to not ruin a memorable little slice of horror.

I'm not entirely sure that Deranged is what it claims it is - a thriller. There's nothing too frightening happening on screen and the agony is zero level, bar two scenes.

Then, there is the narrator. He destroys everything. If he'd just made a brief appearance at the beginning, he'd be tolerable, but no, he had to explain everything over and even enter the same scene as the killer at some point. Really bad direction choice.

The acting was awful - apart from Blossom, who was simply outstanding. His character was probably not meant to be scary really, but rather what the title says, deranged. Blossom's expressions, moves and mannerisms are spot-on, at least I was convinced. Basically, Blossom's performance is the only reason to see this.

DERANGED is exactly what you'd expect for a 70's horror film: campy, creepy, and entertaining despite its obsoleteness. The movie was a pet project for successful concert promoter Tom Karr and, for a while, it remained the most accurate portrayal of American serial killer Ed Gein. The names and locations have been changed and a bit of artistic license has been taken, but the core of the Gein story remains intact. The film is portrayed as a special news report or some sort of P.S.A. with host Tom Sims (Leslie Carlson) popping in every so often to feed us more details and transition to the next phase of madness. Ezra Cobb (Roberts Blossom, and the film's Gein character) lives on a farm in small-town Wisconsin with his ailing mother (Cosette Lee) who fills his head with Bible-born hatred for the sins of the world and, more specifically, the women that perpetuate them. When his mother dies, Ezra's mind snaps. He maintains some semblance of normal life with an ongoing friendship with the Kootz family and the occasional odd job, but there's a new Ezra that the town doesn't see. He removes his mother's corpse from the graveyard, brings her home, and patches her up with parts from other bodies. As his madness deepens, his obsession shifts to finding a wife and the women of this small town are in for trouble. This is a great bit of 70's exploitation with the scantily clad women and horror/violence that we've come to expect.

I love that this film wastes no time in trying to gross out its audience. The sole purpose of this film is to make its viewers squirm, and it succeeds. When Ma Cobb is dying, the filmmakers were sure to give us a stomach-churning close up of the blood and thick green soup sputtering from her mouth. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a pretty gnarly sight. It only gets better as the film continues and Ezra discovers his passion for turning human body parts into trinkets. Granted, this was an exploitation film from the mid-70s with a mere $200,000 budget so the effects aren't exactly the greatest. The blood effects look like thick red paint and the corpses and bones bend and flex. None of it really comes off as real or threatening to modern audiences but I imagine people in the 70s might've been more affected. There are still some parts that can give me the creeps; when Mary is searching Ezra's house and comes to Ma's room, loaded with dressed up corpses, and finds him blending in among them with a skin mask…it's probably the creepiest scene in the entire movie. Honestly, this movie isn't going to do much to scare a contemporary audience but it's fun.

Roberts Blossom as Ezra is the only one here that seems to be taking his job seriously. He actually does a really awesome job. He gives Ezra extra charisma as the town's simpleton and, for a while, Ezra's too dumb/naïve to really hate (of course, that's only until he starts carving up women). Blossom's performance is the only thing that really keeps this moving from being your average throwaway exploitation movie. He's stupid and slowly goes insane without going too over the top. The majority of the supporting cast, on the other hand, fail. Cosette Lee is laughable in her one and only real scene. It's a shame because it's her death in the beginning of the film and it's supposed to be a moment where the audience learns just how messed up Ezra's upbringing was. Lee, Marian Waldman, and Robert McHeady are the film's biggest culprit of upping the camp. I just wish the movie had taken itself more seriously as a whole (but keep Tom Sims) and think it might've been a better movie for it.

Loosely based on the true horror story of Ed Gein, 'Deranged' will definitely make you question why you watch movies like this.

A lonely, borderline retarded man digs up his mother's corpse and keeps her in the house and goes about trying to seduce women and lure them back to his house so he can kill them and make furniture out of the skin and bones.

Some parts are so ridiculous I wasn't sure if they were supposed to be funny or not. Watch this movie, 'Psycho,' 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' and 'Silence of the Lambs,' to see how different filmmakers have used (or exploited) the Ed Gein crimes for their own artistic visions.

Oh yeah! This is what us genre fans like to call a REAL horror film! "Deranged" is shocking, insensitive, cold-hearted and features a 'you-don't-like-it-go-to-hell'-honesty you can't possibly walk away from! This is the pretty damn factual, and therefore hugely disturbing, reconstruction of the case of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. This guy was crazier and far more dangerous than any fictional horror character could ever be and therefore he was a nearly endless source of inspiration for independent filmmakers who wanted to bring a horrific tale. "Deranged" appears to be very cheap and amateurish, but it's one of the rare films in which the low budget production values actually contribute in making the story more grim and realistic! Ed Gein really was a poor and simple-minded farmer who went absolutely berserk after the death of his beloved mother and he refused to accept her passing away by replacing her with cadavers that he kept in his house. The characters' names have been altered, as well as the timing of the story, but Ezra Cobb's actual crimes are frighteningly truthful and portrayed with a chilling eye for detail. The film's biggest trump is unquestionably the casting of the rather unknown actor Roberts Blossom whose impressive and straight-faced performance will make you more than once wonder whether he isn't a real madman! Other aspects that definitely increase the creepiness are the constant funeral music that guides the film and the colorless, depressing set pieces. "Deranged" is not a total gorefest (mainly due to the lack in budget) but the murders are nonetheless explicitly illustrated and quite bloody. Strangely enough, the film's devastating tone is regularly undercut with brilliant flashes of morbid black humor, like Ezra's encounter with an overweight widow who talks to her deceased husband. In short, "Deranged" is a typically 70's cult treasure that should be watched by every horror fan on this planet.

Deranged is a horror comedy with a grim subtext, tracing the activities of Ezra Cobb, a yokel serial killer who likes his ladies nice and dead. The film combines the horror comedy of films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a much grimmer character study presaging works like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Cobb is a man torn between his desire for women and the dictates of his deceased mother, a religious fanatic with an insane distrust of other women. His mother's misogyny combines with a fascination for corpses to produce horrific results.

Robert Blossom's performance as Cobb makes this movie a minor classic. He captures both the comic aspects of Cobb, such as his naive statements of what he is doing to neighbors, along with the more disturbing aspects of his personality. Indeed, the last ten minutes of the film show Cobb wrestling with both his perverted desires and his Mother's commandments. In many respects, he turns Cobb into a sympathetic, if not an outright tragic figure haunted by childhood abuse.

The film is complemented by some early effects work by Tom Savini. These effects are somewhat uneven, given the limited budget that Savini had to work with. Some of the corpses look better than others, and the blood is clearly red paint. However, Savini definitely shows his talent and early promise.

The film's most divisive element is its narrative structure, which makes use of a reporter narrator (played by Videodrome's Les Carlson). On one hand, this device adds to the film's comic value, as Carlson calmly narrates in the same room as Cobb talking with a corpse. However, the narration also takes us out of the film, making it less disturbing than docudramas such as Henry.

Overall, the film makes for a fun viewing and should be on the list of every horror fan.

One of the first of many movies dealing with the Ed Gein murders that have inspired many films throughout the last forty years. "Deranged" at times resembles more a black comedy than a horror film as Roberts Blossom's hokey performance as the ultimate momma's boy Ezra Cobb is anything but intimidating. When Ezra's devout mother dies he is suddenly left alone in a world where his thin social graces have hampered him so much that he has no idea how to interact with other people especially women. When Ezra's neighbor tries to set him up on a date in one of the silliest scenes Ezra constantly envisions his mother berating him with all the sinful pitfalls that come with the fairer sex. Missing his mother's company Ezra digs up her corpse and begins to assemble her into a makeshift shrine in her bedroom. In an attempt to make her look more presentable he begins to lure women to his house in order to kill and skin them for spare parts. This is the catalyst for his derangement as he moves from simple homicide by a firearm to the capture, torture, and murder of his female victims. Again, it's hard to approach a macabre subject like this but the murders in "Deranged" lack any edge and come off more as witless shenanigans than anything. One scene has Ezra banging a skin-lined drum with a femur bone while trying desperately to convince his tied up victim that he truly is crazy when it seems like it's the audience that needs the persuasion. In an attempt to ramp up the shock value of his crimes Ezra kidnaps a young lady that becomes the finale of the film as she is dating his neighbor's son, strings her nude body up, and disembowels her. Sadly the red paint spattered over her nude body is the same kind of tacky murder scenes that were prevalent in the early seventies. "Deranged" has quite a little cult following but in my honest opinion this is an average at best B-movie that starts out slow and just gets goofy as it progresses. It seems hardcore fans of this movie are the deranged ones.