But what follows is a surprisingly suspenseful film with effective shocks and good cinematography (it's lovely to see how the camera moves through the woods at night).

So far the basic premise of this film that proves just how easy it was to come up with an horror screenplay in the early 80's. And of course there's some cocky teenager who immediately yells out his name over the campfire. If one speaks his name and I quote 'above a whisper', the legend states that Madman Marz comes for you. An unstable farmer who butchered his family with an axe before vanishing into the dark woods. One of the tales revolves on a local legend and introduces 'Madman Marz'. The movie starts with what perhaps is the biggest cliché in the genre but it sure works: a group of teenagers sitting around a campfire, attempting to scare each other with spooky tales. There's something about this film that simply makes it irresistible. Yet, I feel no shame in saying that I really enjoyed watching 'Madman' and I would even recommend it to other slasher-freaks as much as possible. Writer/director Joe Giannone wanted to cash in on this 'classic' horror film's earnings and quickly thought up a similar premise with the same amount of gruesomeness and sleaze. This early 80's horror junk is exactly what you expect it to be: completely unoriginal and it probably never would have existed if it weren't for the unexpected success of Sean S. Reviewed by Coventry 6 / 10 Cool summer-camp slasher!

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