Viveca Lindfors

Belinda Montgomery

Solly Marx

Rick Aiello

Elizabeth Kaitan

Daisy White

Sydney Lassick

David Greenan

Roderick Cook

Stanja Lowe

Ed Van Nuys

Dennis Helfend

Philip Levy

Tori Hartman

Katherine Kamhi

Katie Bull

Jeffrey Bingham

Lori-Nan Engler

Shelly Gibson

Cindy Lloyd

Paige Price

Sloane Shelton

Stacey Simms

Paul DeAngelo

John Bentley

Kathleen Ferguson

William Gibberson

James Glenn

Henry Hayward

Bill Shuman

Marjorie Apollo

Conni Brunner

Noreen Collins

Michaelene Donati

Lauren McCann

Susan Mordfin

Chiara Peacock

Kim Plumridge

Laurie Wilson

Simon Nuchtern

Gerald Feil

Matthew Carlisle

J.D. Freedman

Oded Carmi

Rolf Pardula

Catherine Cloud

Stu Deutsch

Mike Latino

Mary Santiago

Gary Paris

Feliks Parnell

Ben Blake

Ramon Alfonso

Michele Thibeault

Kit Carter

Diane Smith

Janet Wickenhaver

Edith Simms

Linda Richards

Jack Walworth

Mark Daniels

Susie Prestine

Robert Sands

John Gabriele

Richard Lafond

Rhonda Beaudette

Frank Ortega

Barbara Aiello

Harry McAuliffe

Jim Bush

Anne Nevin

Andy Stamatin

Deborah Shaw

Laurie Aiello

Martin Kitrosser

Tony Mangia

Kenny Myers

Steve Gorlick

Ray Stewart

Neal Kelly

Mayin Yo

Allan A. Apone

Tommy Louie

Susanna Neuhaus

Steven Visscher

Darlene Cipriani

Marla Carlson

Stephen Park

Lisa Delgrosso

Rudy Harbon

Christopher Kreski

Vanessa Cox

Barry Squitieri

Mark Ginsberg

Gerald McCann

Carl Morano

Anne Weinstein

Philip Stockton

Dennis Souder

Bruce Pross

Bernardo Gomez

Lou Salvatore

Jack Higgins

Bob Zimmerman

Nelson DeMille

Bill Milling

Barry Salmon

Horror

Silent Madness

Mag Enterprises

United States of America

**_Gauche, forgettable 80’s slasher in the tradition of “Halloween” & “Black Christmas”_**

A criminally insane patient is accidentally let loose from a sanitarium in the greater New York City area and so a concerned psychiatrist at the facility (Belinda Montgomery) travels to the upstate college where he was formerly employed and committed a massacre years prior. Naturally she hopes to apprehend him before there’s a body count of victims.

"Silent Madness” (1984) mixes the plot of “Halloween” (1978) with that of “Black Christmas” (1974) and "The House on Sorority Row" (1983). In other words, it’s a slasher involving a silent homicidal maniac on the loose at a sorority house with a doctor from the asylum passionately trying to find him. While I’m not the hugest fan of those particular slashers, the first two are certainly historically important to the genre. This one pales by comparison.

It has several positives, like Belinda as the protagonist, the locations and the cast in general, although the guy who plays the inept sheriff is easily a decade beyond retirement age. One imaginative slaying involves an aerobics girl hanging upside down with the use of a rope, a dumbbell and a window.

Unfortunately, the directing & editing is unimaginative at best and sometimes borderline amateurish with lousy continuity, yet the writing may be the worst aspect with its glaring plot holes.

Too much time is blown on why the patient was accidentally discharged and the corresponding cover-up. Meanwhile there’s not enough exposition on the weird secret ward, which smacks of meaningless padding. Very little of it feels real; it’s like a Bizarro-world interpretation of a slasher with emphasis on 3D effects rather than suspense, which mean very little if you’re watching the flick in 2D.

So, this is basically an early 80’s slasher that failed to work out the kinks during production, no doubt because they lacked the funds for a rewrite, et cetera. It shows because “Silent Madness” is surreal at best and bungling at worst. Even the decidedly prosaic ‘B’ "Sorority House Massacre" (1986) is a better option. 

The film runs 1 hour, 33 minutes, and was shot in the New York/New Jersey area, including Wagner College on Staten Island, Lord's Castle in Piermont, Nyack and Jersey City.

GRADE: C-

English

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