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''Madman'' is a 1982 slasher film written and directed by Joe Giannone.〔(Saturday Nightmares: Madman (1982) )〕 The plot follows a group of campers who are stalked and killed after summoning an axe-murderer of local legend. Originally based on the upstate New York urban legend of the Cropsey maniac, the film's central premise and main antagonist was changed last minute due to conflicts with ''The Burning'' (1981), which was in production at the same time. ==Plot summary== The film opens with T.P (Tony Fish), one of the senior counselors at a camp, is telling a scary story around a campfire to the young campers and the other counselors - who consist of Betsy (Gaylen Ross), Ellie (Jan Claire), Dave (Seth Jones), Stacy (Harriet Bass), Bill (Alexander Murphy Jr.), and Max (Carl Fredericks); the late middle-aged head counselor. After T.P. finishes his story, Max begins to tell of a man named Madman Marz, who killed his whole family with an axe, was convicted and sentenced to be hung for his crimes, only to break free and disappear into the woods. Max continues by saying that anyone who says his name will awaken him and cause him to track down and kill that person. Richie (Jimmy Steele), a cocky teenager, stands up and screams Marz's name, smashing a rock into his old house. Max, annoyed at Richie, ends the campfire session and sends everyone to their cabins while he goes into town to stock up on supplies. Richie notices Madman Marz up in a tree and follows him to his house, where he investigates. As Max and Dave try to retrieve a felling axe that is stuck into a log, everyone heads inside their cabins. Chef Dippy (Michael Sulliva) is killed by Marz outside. T.P. tries to get Betsy to go out with him, but she refuses. After the kids have gone to sleep, the rest of the counselors see Max off and go into the rec room to relax. T.P. apologizes for being rude to Betsy and she goes with him to the hot tub, all the while being watched by Madman Marz. After this, Dave is called out to Richie's cabin, and the boys tell him that Richie never came back. Dave informs the others, who have all joined up with each other again. T.P. decides to go and find Richie and he sets off into the woods. He finds a clearing and calls for Richie, who is wandering around the woods looking for Marz. Suddenly, a noose falls over T.P.'s neck and lifts him up into the air on a tree branch. As T.P. struggles, Marz pulls the noose and snaps his neck. Marz later returns to the camp and grabs the axe out of the log. Back at the camp, Betsy and Stacy begin to talk about T.P. Betsy wants to talk to T.P. but finds out that he's still gone and begins to worry. Realizing that it has been a long time since T.P. left, Dave decides to go find him and Richie. Dave ventures out into the woods and comes across T.P.'s body. Panicked, he runs farther into the woods, where Marz chases him. Dave falls over and is decapitated by Marz's axe. Meanwhile, Richie is still out in the woods and is now looking for a way back to camp. Ellie and Bill have gone to have sex in the woods, leaving a worried Betsy back at camp. Stacy tells Betsy to stay at camp to watch the kids and wait for the others to show up. Instead, Stacy goes into the woods to find Ellie and Bill and tells them about the recent disappearances. Afterwards, she returns to the camp, gets in her car, and drives off into the woods, just as Marz is about to grab the door handle. Bill and Ellie get dressed and take his car for the search. Stacy begins her own search for Dave, T.P., and Richie, but finds only a lantern at first, until she spots Dave's body on the ground. She screams and rushes back to her car, only to have her engine stall. She opens the hood, not noticing Marz on top of her car, and he jumps onto the hood, causing it to slam down on Stacy. While searching through the woods, Ellie sees Marz at Stacy's car and begins to scream, causing Marz to flee (bringing along Stacy's body), and Bill heading to her location. She tells him that she saw Marz, and both of them investigate and decide to drive back to camp using Stacy's car. The car stalls and Bill investigates, finding Stacy's head in the engine, causing him to gag. Ellie comes out and screams, and Bill discards the head in a cloth. The two enter the car and begin to drive, only for Marz to grab Bill from the window and pull him out, causing the car to crash and Ellie to fall out. She looks up and screams as Marz snaps Bill's back, then she runs back to the camp. Richie, still in the woods, heads back to Marz's house, only to come across something that horrifies him. Back at camp, Betsy is making up a bed at the girls' cabins and does not see Ellie coming back to the camp. Ellie goes into the kitchen cabin, looking for Betsy. When she goes outside, Marz appears at the door and continues to pursue her into the cabin until she hides in a refrigerator. Thinking he left, she climbs out and tries to leave, only for Marz slam his axe into her chest. Betsy finally leaves the cabin and sees Marz running through the camp; she grabs a double-barreled shotgun and quietly makes her way to the open-doored kitchen cabin. Marz slams Ellie into a window, causing Betsy to accidentally shoot her. Betsy then backs out and heads towards the kids, waking them up and telling them to get on the bus they took to the camp. They quickly obey and she joins them and begins to drive away, only to have Marz appear at the door, trying to enter. Betsy beats his hand with a broomstick handle, and Marz backs out and escapes. Betsy orders the oldest boy drive the rest to safety while she gets off the bus and follows Marz to his house in the woods. Once inside Marz's house she begins searching, with Marz hiding in the darkness. An object falls, causing her to panic and shoot, and Marz appears. He disarms Betsy and cuts her cheek open with his clawed hands. He then drags her towards the basement, where he impales her on a coat rack. Betsy takes out a hunting knife and stabs Marz in the shoulder, causing him to knock over a candle, after which he escapes. The candle sets fire to the house and everything inside, including the skeletons of Marz's wife and two children. The ending shows Max driving back to the camp and almost hitting a shaken Richie, who now says that Madman Marz is real. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madman (1982 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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