I, Madman (1989) on Netflix
Virginia works in a Los Angeles bookstore, caught up in the pulp horror novels of Malcolm Brand. The books' disfigured killer, Dr. Kessler, appears in her daydreams as murders begin around her.
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Plot summary
Virginia Clayton is an aspiring actress who works the counter at a secondhand bookshop in downtown Los Angeles. She spends her free time in the pulp horror novels of Malcolm Brand, and the books' disfigured killer, Dr. Kessler, appears in her daydreams. Richard, her boyfriend, is a detective, and he grows concerned about her fixation. Killings follow, each one echoing a scene she has read: an acting classmate of hers is found dead, and from her window she watches a man killed in the building opposite, his ears cut off. Richard is assigned to investigate. In Brand's novel, Kessler carved away his own facial features and grafts the faces of his victims onto his own.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I, Madman (1989)
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- Randall William Cook worked on I, Madman as both an actor and a make-up artist and stop motion effects supervisor, having previously done stop motion work on director Tibor Takács' earlier film The Gate.
