History Film / Deranged

* {{Gorn}}: Some scenes are quite gruesome for such an unassuming horror flick, most notably Mary's death and the scene where Ezra dissects a corpse and scoops out pieces of its brain. Many of these scenes had to be cut in order for the film to avoid being slapped with an [[UsefulNotes/AdultsOnlyFilmRating X rating]] by the MPAA.

Not to be confused with the 2012 film of the same name.

* [[spoiler:NoEnding: The film ends with the sheriff, his deputy, and Harlan Kootz finding Mary's dismembered body in the barn and Ezra at the dinner table with his collection of dug-up bodies, cackling over a bowl of blood... upon which the film ends with a freeze-frame where Simms' narration simply states that his farmhouse was burned down three days later. There is literally nothing saying what became of Ezra, if he was immediately arrested and thrown into the slammer for the rest of his life, was thrown into the nuthouse for the same length of time, if the three men were so appalled and disgusted by his actions that they gunned him down right there at the dinner table, or if they collectively pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and Ezra was killed when his house was burnt down]].

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Ezra develops an obsession with an attractive young barmaid, Mary Ransum, and later kidnaps her in an attempt to force her to marry him. Mary attempts to flee, but is quickly incapacitated and {{bound|AndGagged}} in Ezra's closet. When she awakens, Ezra tries to force her to have dinner with him and his corpses and then [[AttemptedRape attempts to molest her]], but Mary once again attempts to fight back by flinging his mother's corpse at him, hitting his BerserkButton and resulting in him beating her to death.

''Deranged'' (also known as ''Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile'') is a 1974 Canadian psychological horror film directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen and starring Creator/RobertsBlossom (in his only leading role), Cosette Lee, Les Carlson, Robert Warner, Marcia Diamond, Marian Waldman, and Micki Moore. The film is a RomanAClef based on the crimes of the infamous {{serial killer}}[=/=]{{grave robb|ing}}er UsefulNotes/EdGein, here renamed Ezra Cobb. The film's visual effects were provided by a young Creator/TomSavini.

''Deranged'' (also known as ''Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile'') is a 1974 Canadian psychological horror film directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen and starring Creator/RobertsBlossom (in his only leading role), Cosette Lee, Les Carlson, Robert Warner, Marcia Diamond, Marian Waldman, and Micki Moore. The film is a RomanAClef based on the crimes of the infamous {{serial killer}}[=/=]{{grave robb|ing}}er Ed Gein, here renamed Ezra Cobb. The film's visual effects were provided by a young Creator/TomSavini.

* {{Gorn}}: Some scenes are quite gruesome for such an unassuming horror flick, most notably Mary's death and the scene where Ezra mutilates and dissects a corpse. Many of these scenes had to be cut in order for the film to avoid being slapped with an [[UsefulNotes/AdultsOnlyFilmRating X rating]] by the MPAA.

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: ''Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile''.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, the townspeople find Ezra laughing over the corpse of his latest victim. [[MrExposition Simms]] then states that said townspeople showed up the following day, armed with TorchesAndPitchforks and burned down his house, though whether or not they actually succeeded in killing him is left somewhat ambiguous.]]