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Watch: Madman 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – At a summer camp for youths, cockey pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer “Madman Marz”. Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called..
Plot: At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer “Madman Marz”. Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
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Ratings:

	5.1/10 Votes: 6,023
	33% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 124 Popularity: 8.69 | TMDB

Reviews:

Saw this a while back and gave it a second shot with Vinegar Syndrome’s 4K release and… my opinion remains the same. The kills are unspectacular and on the whole was pretty dull, as were the cardboard cutout characters. Not sure the timeline when it was filmed, but seems like a clear Friday the 13th clone. **2.25/5**

***Pedestrian Grade B knockoff of “Friday the 13th”***

It’s the end of the season at a youth camp on the remote end of Long Island and a legendary mad backwoodsman appears on the final night to pick off the counselors. Gaylen Ross (as Alexis Dubin) from “Dawn of the Dead” (1978) appears as one of the protagonists.

Seeing “Madman” (1981) makes you realize the excellence of “Friday the 13th” (1980). It has the same basic setting and plot with a promising opening that borrows from “The Fog” (1980), not to mention a crazy ax-wielding killer that recalls “The Shining” (1980). But it never rises above a flat experience, although it has some nice nocturnal camp mood.

The fact that everything takes place within a few hours on the same night doesn’t help because there are no daytime scenes; and so the story’s just too one-dimensional for a movie that runs almost an hour and a half. Some dull scenes unnecessarily drag on and could’ve been cut in half. Another negatory is that the director/writer has no eye for capturing women on film; and I’m not talking about nudity or sleaze.

Still, if you favor the “Friday the 13th” flicks and don’t mind a subpar copy, “Madman” should fill the bill, although that’s about it. At least the titular character’s make-up is well done. He’s sort of like Bigfoot if he were human and liked axes.

The movie runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot entirely at Fish Cove Inn, Southampton, Long Island, New York.

GRADE: C/C-

The refrigerator is probably not the best place to hide from an ax-welding killer
Some surprisingly old camp counselors anger legendary ax-murderer, so he makes a successful come-back.

Obvious Friday the 13th knock-off, but hey, it manages to be worth a few laughs. As low-budget as this film is, it does well with what it has, making a fairly good villain and possessing an atmospheric spookiness. Gore-seekers will find plenty of blood flying in this one, the gore FX are pretty nicely done for a low-budgeter. The locations are decent and the electronic music score ain’t bad. Dig that clunky theme song!

The films biggest flaw is in its casting. While leads Alexis Dublin (better known as Gaylen Ross) and Tony Fish are OK, the supporting cast are completely awful in their wooden performances. I suppose we’re not watching this movie for the acting though.

Still, Madman is an enjoyable tongue-in-cheek slasher movie.

** 1/2 out of ****

Madman
A notorious psychopath named Madman Marz murdered his family and was a horrible drunkard. Well, supposedly he survived a lynch hanging(..while also getting his face scarred with an ax to it)and his butchered family’s bodies were never recovered. Over a campfire, the mythos of Marz is that if one calls his name(..the infamous home of Marz where the murders occurred, isn’t too far from the campsite setting of the film)he will return to kill those in his path. So the plot, or of what little there is, is set up as counselors, over a camp for gifted kids, are being murdered one by one. The chain reaction(..or domino effect)begins when idiot kid Richie(Jimmy Steele), the dope responsible for crying out Marz’s name, tossing a stone through the legendary psycho’s window, doesn’t return to camp with the rest of his brethren. He takes a hike to Marz’s creepy, seemingly-abandoned home, out of curiosity, and doesn’t return to camp. Why? I dunno. He watches from the bushes as Marz brings victims back to his lair. Meanwhile, counselors begin to go into the woods to find Richie, and each time another meets their maker.

Marz looks like some monstrous ghoul, a Sasquatch in hillbilly attire who grunts like an aggravated animal. His skin is pale and fingernails look as if they could use a good manicure. Not the best of hair-days, either. Anyway, like many psychopaths in the slasher genre, Madman Marz has superhuman strength and can pull one male victim with a rope over a strong branch that leaves him in a difficult position, with the result being a nasty neck snap with the eventual eyes rolling back into his head. There’s this ax that has been buried in a log stump for sometime with no one able to remove it with force..of course, Marz does remove it with a little pull and some grunting. There are some off-screen beheadings(..one amusingly as a female victim is working on repairs under a hood Marz slams down on her)with the severed neck squirting blood. There are subtle scenes inside Marz’s cellar where he keeps the murdered bodies and we hear a sharp thud in the background, later finding that he has a thing for hanging corpses on hooks. There’s one howler of a scene where this dim-bulb female victim attempts to hide from Marz in a refrigerator. She gets it with an ax and an accidental shot-gun blast to the face(..nah, not as gruesomely staged as it sounds). Poor Gaylen Ross of “Dawn of the Dead” fame gets the “final girl” role, but it isn’t much and she is served a grim fate. All in all, “Madman” is tame compared to the slashers lucky enough to have obtained the talents of make-up extraordinaire Tom Savini. There’s a campfire scene akin to “Friday the 13th Part 2” and “The Burning”. Marz is yet another Jason Voorhies clone. Nothing that inventive or terrifying here, folk. Some stylish touches in the woods where victims pursue a dumb kid, and the sad irony is that this boy makes it out unscathed, the very one responsible for the madness in the first place. I think this benefited from the DVD boom because Madman has a quality release..the use of campfire and fireplace light are exceptional, and the way Marz is shadowed works well enough. If this weren’t so damned run-of-the-mill…

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 28 min (88 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Thriller
Director Joe Giannone
Writer Joe Giannone, Gary Sales
Actors Gaylen Ross, Tony Nunziata, Harriet Bass
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm