{"id":37097,"date":"2016-08-18T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37097"},"modified":"2020-12-19T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:37:06","slug":"i-dismember-mama-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37097","title":{"rendered":"I Dismember Mama (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;My mother&#8217;s a whore; in the middle ages, she would have been stoned to death.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Poster-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Poster-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Poster-81x128.jpg 81w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Poster.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter attempting to strangle a nurse (Elaine Partnow) and then killing an attendant (James Tartan), a deeply disturbed psychopath (Zooey Hall) escapes from his mental institution intent on murdering his mother (Joanne Moore Jordan), who naively believes a psychiatrist&#8217;s (Frank Whiteman) claim that Hall can be &#8220;cured&#8221;. But when Hall rapes and murders his mother&#8217;s personal assistant (Marlene Tracy), then kidnaps Tracy&#8217;s naive young daughter Annie (Geri Reischl) and &#8220;marries&#8221; her in a hotel room, a detective (Greg Mullavey) knows he has no time to lose in capturing &#8220;poor Albert&#8221; (Hall).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Insanity and Insane Asylums<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis embarrassment of a psycho-thriller belongs nowhere near a must-see film list. It&#8217;s disturbing not only to think about this film being written and made, but to contemplate its hypothetical fan base. The film&#8217;s original title &#8212; <em>Poor Albert and Little Annie<\/em> &#8212; strongly hints we should remain sympathetic to this monstrous man:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Hall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Hall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Hall.png 528w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Hall-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Hall-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Hall-371x270.png 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> who befriends &#8220;pure&#8221; Annie much like <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=18354\">Frankenstein&#8217;s monster befriends the little girl<\/a> he drowns in a lake. (Albert courts Annie by going boating on a lake&#8230; Yes, the &#8216;homage&#8217; is that explicit.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Boat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Boat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Boat.png 528w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Boat-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Boat-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/I-Dismember-Mama-Boat-371x270.png 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hall&#8217;s other notable role was as a sadistic prisoner in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3315\"><em>Fortune and Men&#8217;s Eyes<\/em> (1971)<\/a>, so I guess he was riding a convenient wave of stereotyped casting. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><br \/>\nNone. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nFor goodness&#8217; sake, no. Listed as a Camp Classic, a Cult Movie, and (appropriately) Trash in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071639\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=6913&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifilm.org\/musing2991.html\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My mother&#8217;s a whore; in the middle ages, she would have been stoned to death.&#8221; Synopsis: After attempting to strangle a nurse (Elaine Partnow) and then killing an attendant (James Tartan), a deeply disturbed psychopath (Zooey Hall) escapes from his mental institution intent on murdering his mother (Joanne Moore Jordan), who naively believes a psychiatrist&#8217;s (Frank Whiteman) claim that Hall can be &#8220;cured&#8221;. But when Hall rapes and murders his mother&#8217;s personal assistant (Marlene Tracy), then kidnaps Tracy&#8217;s naive young&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37097\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37097"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58542,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37097\/revisions\/58542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}