Madness (1980) on Netflix
NR19801h 25mCrimeDramaHorrorThriller
Escaped convict Joe Brezzi breaks into a remote cottage where Liliana, her husband Sergio and her sister Paola are staying. He digs beneath the fireplace for the loot he buried there.
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Plot summary
Joe Brezzi scales down a prison wall and escapes. To take a car he strikes a driver with a rock, and when an older man comes at him with a pitchfork he knocks him down and kills him with it. Claiming to be an insurance salesman, he gets an old man on the road to describe a nearby house and the routines of the people who live in it. He breaks in, then leaves when a car approaches. Liliana, her husband Sergio and her sister Paola arrive and have dinner. The next morning Sergio sets off to hunt with a shotgun and Liliana goes into town to shop, leaving Paola sunbathing outside. Joe sneaks up on Paola, knocks her out and carries her into the house, then starts digging under the fireplace.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Madness (1980)
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- Madness was the last film Joe Dallesandro shot in Italy before he returned to the United States, marking the end of his run of Italian productions.
- Composer Luis Bacalov's score for Madness is mainly recycled from his music for two other films, Di Leo's Caliber 9 and Maurizio Lucidi's The Designated Victim.
- Madness was shot in just twelve days and on a low budget, a remarkably short shooting schedule for a feature film.
