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Wikipedia article
'Ogroff', also known as 'Mad Mutilator' is a 1983 French slasher film written, directed by, and starring Norbert Moutier (as N. G. Mount) and Howard Vernon. Its plot follows an isolated backwoods lumberjack who attacks and murders people passing through his woods.
Cast
*Norbert Moutier as Ogroff
*Robert Alaux
*Franoise Deniel
*Pierre Pattin
*Alain Petit as Lumberjack
*Howard Vernon as Vampire
Production
The film was shot on Super 8 film in Orlans, France. Transcription of notes available . The film's director, writer, and lead actor, Norbert Moutier (credited as N. G. Mount), was a video rental store proprietor who devised the film with the hopes of renting it to patrons at his store.
Score
In 2018, Jean Richard's complete musical score was released digitally by Specific Recordings on vinyl and digitally via Bandcamp.Release
Critical response
Joseph A. Ziemba, published in 'The New York Times', described the film as a "gore-drenched... European pastiche of American slashers." Promoting a revival screening, the Alamo Drafthouse wrote of the film in a press release: "Director N.G. Mounts kinetic stylings rip-off any number of early 80s slashers -- and trumps them all. Mounts madness on all visual, technical, and constitutional levels achieves an iconic trash perfection that is only equalled by fellow idiosyncratic filmmakers Nick Millard, Doris Wishman, and Chester Turner."Home media
The film had its DVD premiere on December 4, 2012.See also
*'Violent Shit'
*'The Corpse Eaters', a horror film created by a theater proprietor for the sole purpose of distribution in that particular venue
References
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