The hot tub scene between Betsy and T.P. has to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious moments in cinematic history. The music...the atmosphere...so bad!
Seriously though, I love this movie...definitely on par with other quirky slashfests like The Prowler, Sleepaway Camp and Chopping Mall.
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Yeah, that scene's a doozy. I just love the way the camera keeps swirling around faster and faster as they make love in the hot tub. And that horrendously sappy lovey dovey folk song whining away on the soundtrack only makes it that much more unintentionally hilarious. Moreover, I agree with you 100% that it's one of the better early 80's slasher flicks.
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What makes it so funny is that the camera is NOT swirling around them...they are twirling around in the hot tub like a couple of douches.
I watched this movie last night and thought it was damn close to horrible. The dialog was corny and even though I am a splatter fan, there just wasn't anything memorable in the gore department.
Now what I did enjoy was the unfortunate looking Tony Fish as the aptly named 'TP'. And if you forget his short name, it's right there on his awesome fuhcking belt buckle, just south of the wierdest belly button I have ever seen. It looks like he has an innie AND an outie. Watch it again, you'll see.
I think 'TP' stood for 'Tight Pants'.
Anyhow, the movie goes down the sh!tter once he croaks.
Did you not think the Head under the Hood was an original gore fest???
And TP getting hung, his neck snapping as Madman pulled on his pocket!!!,, absolute quality!!!!
Around this time, other great horror flicks included, Pranks, Bloody Valentine, The Warning, The Burning, Scanners,, all to be included in every 30 somethings horror back catalogue.
Only now at the end do you realise!
yea it was priceless when that woman got decapitated by Marz using the car hood. Somehow a 250+ pound man managed to soundlessly get on the top of the car and jump on the hood. Brilliant.
shareI've never known douches to twirl around in a tub, but I'll be sure to investigate that phenomenon Mr. Wizard style! Seriously, that line cracked me up. And you're right about that disgusting belly button on TP, which I assume stands for Toilet Paper.
There ain't no Hebrew God, Ozzy's God!
That post cracked me up, too.
shareThat song sucked. What a stupid scene.
shareOk, the song was pretty bad....but lets not forget the whole point of that scene is to keep with the traditional 80's horror theme....you have sex then you will die. I remember renting Madman when I was a teenager and I was extremely scared, granted when you watch it today there are some pretty laughable scenes....but you have to admit it is a good 80's horror flick.....Especially when the one girl hides in the fridge.
shareI have the song memorized and croon it to all my friends constantly. It is hilarious. "Magician does his magic, fools you with a sliptrick, you never know how he makes it happen, find yourself just clappin and feelin goooood"
shareLOL, I just watched this again today after not having seen it for years and I couldn't stop laughing at that scene. They were spinning around in that hot tub for a good three minutes before they even touched each other! :-o
The dialogue and the characters in this movie are crazy. It would be an all-time bad movie classic if it weren't for the fact that the characters take their good ol' time doing absolutely nothing.
I love Gaylen Ross to death--I've met her and think she is one of the nicest people around--but she is pretty lousy in this movie. I can understand why she used the pseudonym "Alexis Dubin," lol.
i dont get the swirling at ALL. i really want to ask the director about it. and gaylen ross what it was like to film that.
shareApparently Gaylen refuses to talk about Madman with anybody. I guess she'd just rather forget. ;)
shareI just watched that scene on IFC and my first thought was "UGH" The music was so corny and I like Gaylen Ross but she is no sex kitten by any means.Of all the girls in that movie they had to pick her for that.The guy was even worse, watching him strip made me cringe. And the spinning in a circle looked just a little strange. Why would anyone want to do that before getting it on anyway?
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the belly button thats an OUTIE..it's normal and its pretty sexy on someone
and the hottub scene I thought it was more of way like
he's trying to get to her but she's playing "hard to get" hellooo?!
"Of all the girls in that movie they had to pick her for that."
Better her than the actress that played Ellie(the one that hid in the fridge)
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One part that i thought was funnier is when the 4 of them are lying on the floor in the cabin and one gets up and grabs a knife and starts talking about how psychos act and think. That part was super retarded. And the way the other 3 sit up to watch him is unbelievably corny. They look like GAP models sitting like that.
shareI remember seeing this in a move theatre back 1982 full of high school kids. They were in hysterics by the time the hot tub scene was over! Those two swirling around just looked incredibly stupid. The only part that surprised me was that they showed the guys butt getting into the tub. I'm not complaining though. We have plenty of gratuitous female nudity in horror films so I guess guys gotta get nude too:)
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TP always looked like he had something smelly under his nose.
sharelol. Maybe TP needed to make better use of TP
shareIf I'm not mistaken, I think that the 'circling around one another for 3 minutes before mating' thing is a homage to the Himalayan Yak. Although I do believe that the yaks prefer to do this without the most mindbendingly ridiculous song I have yet to hear in the background, although I could be wrong. I'm gonna check Wikipedia to confirm. :-D
shareahh yes the ancient mating ritual of the Himalayan Yak. Thought to be long lost in legend. Next on National Geographic.
shareLOL Craig! But alas, the yaks are pure poetry in motion --- and the yahoos in this terrible movie are crudely spastic in the ocean - er, hot tub. (I did SO want it to rhyme...)
shareha ha! and sadly the ritual is seldom praticed by the new generation of yaks. They would rather be on "yaks gone wild"
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