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Watched Deranged 1974 and Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield 2007.
Deranged wasn't bad, but parts of it dragged so badly I had to fast forward. One curious thing is, while it's a story about Ed Gein, they renamed him Ezra Cobb. For what reason, I have no idea. It was sort of nice to also see Tom Savini's first make-up effects. They weren't as stunning as say TCM 2 or Maniac, but they weren't bad considering there was probably no budget.
The Butcher of Plainfield was pretty terrible, and I blame Kane Hodder. I don't understand why anyone likes this guy other than the fact that he's accessible, and will do an interview for anyone who has a pen and a notepad. He can't act, and he was a terrible Jason, sorry. Plus, he's the antithesis of what makes people like Ed Gein scary. Ed Gein was just a regular guy, not some steroid pumped behemoth. That's part of what makes most serial killers scary, they're regular people that you wouldn't expect to be mass killers.
The only thing I really liked about this movie was the soundtrack. RObert Johnson, Bukka White, a lot of great old timey blues! And while I love old blues, it had no business being in this movie. The movie was supposed to take place in 1950's Wisconsin. Sure Johnson and White's recordings were 20 years old by this time, but am I supposed to believe that people from Wisconsin were rocking out to old timey blues? It was probably illegal in wisconsin to even play music from a black man back then.
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