![]() ![]() ![]() The main character, Donny, bears the trademarks of famous real-world serial killers, but, in keeping with the Psycho theme, he’s essentially a firebug version of human skin suit enthusiast Ed Gein. Ellison and Ellen Hammill’s screenplay features a tortured child who grows into mentally ill and murderous adult man who is haunted by his overbearing/abusive mother’s voice while bumbling his way through the Gothic malaise of 1970s tri-state America. I don’t think it’s reductive to say that Joseph Ellison’s notorious shocker Don’t Go in the House (1979) was designed to be a downbeat and blatant combination of Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976). ![]()
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