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Movie Review- `Madness' is showing 3-D movie in two dimensions
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution - June 20, 1985
Author: CAIN, SCOTT, Scott Cain Staff Writer: STAFF
Movie review on "Silent Madness," a thriller starring Belinda Montgomery, and directed by Simon Nuchtern, who wrote the original story.
Silent Madness: A thriller starring Belinda Montgomery, was directed by Simon Nuchtern, who wrote the original story. Movie Guide: rating, R; sex, mildly suggested; violence, some very grisly; nudity, some female; language, bursts of profanity. Now showing at local theaters.
Cheap 3-D movies lose a sizable chunk of their appeal when they are shown in plain old 2-D. Crowbars and axes swinging at the audience don't have an ounce of menace.
"Silent Madness," which is unaccountably being shown in regular two-dimensional process in Atlanta, has none of the virtues and all of the faults of bottom-drawer 3-D thrillers - grainy photography, on-the-spot recording, stilted dialogue, wooden acting and inept staging.
Belinda Montgomery, an actress who ought to know there's no future in exploitation flicks, plays Dr. Gilmour, a snoopy psychiatrist newly appointed to the staff of Cresthaven, an overcrowded asylum in New York City. The heartless staff regularly discharges patients who are incapable of taking care of themselves.
Owing to a mixup, a killer named Howard Johns is released. When Dr. Gilmour discovers this terrible error, other Cresthaven personnel are more concerned with covering up the mistake than they are with capturing the deranged fugitive.
Howard returns to Barrington, an upstate New York college, where he was previously blamed for multiple murders at Delta Omega sorority house. Fresh killings erupt, but, in the absence of corpses, Dr. Gilmour can't convince the lazy sheriff that Howard Johns is still alive, let alone responsible for new terror.
Lots of yawns here. We've seen all this in many previous horror pix.
Much of "Silent Madness" takes place in the basement of the Delta Omega house. The basement seems only slightly smaller than the Pentagon. Distressed damsels can run for miles without reaching a portal.
Viveca Lindfors plays Mrs. Collins, the creepy sorority housemother. With her air of deeply-entrenched sorrow, Miss Lindfors brings a dose of poignance to one or two scenes, although she is slumming in a movie like this. From the first moment Mrs. Collins slinks into view, you are quite sure that she knows a terrible secret - and, sure enough, she does.
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