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The plot of "Demented" centers around attractive Linda Rodgers,whose life and sanity is destroyed when one day whilst tending to her horses she is horrifically gang raped in the stables by four thugs.She begins having horrific hallucinations about her rapists and finally breaks down and extracts a cruel and violent revenge on four masked youths.The tormented woman dispatches the teenage pranksters with a shotgun,a meat cleaver and in the films show stopping highlight even castrates one using a coil of piano wire.Pretty exploitative rape and revenge flick with plenty of sleaze and incredibly annoying heroine.The performance of Sallee Elyse is utterly horrible and her high pitched voice truly get on my nerves.Overall,"Demented" completely fails to engage the viewers emotionally and is basically worthless.5 out of 10.Only for completists of rape and revenge sub-genre.

Linda Rodgers is gang-raped while tending to her horses at a boarding stable. Disturbed by the brutal attack, Linda's grip on reality becomes increasingly weakened, propelling her into a psychotic break in which she enacts bloody revenge.

This lackluster and tacky "I Spit on Your Grave" knockoff seems to be striving to be a psychological character study, but the script, direction, and performances never really get it to that point. There is little in the way of narrative; the film inexplicably begins virtually in medias res as Linda is raped at a horse stable, and the remainder of the film feels like a series of stitched-together scenes that never propel the plot forward.

Uninventive, dry camera-work leaves the film feeling visually bland, which is another major detraction; the least one could hope for is an at least mildly aesthetically pleasing film, but sadly that is not the case. The performances are far from great, although I don't think they are quite as bad as some may have suggested—by eighties low-budget horror standards, they are more or less average. Sallee Young plays the tortured protagonist and is on and off the mark, playing her psychosis scenes in an exaggerated childlike pose; in spite of its imperfections, her performance is weirdly disturbing. Porn star Harry Reems plays her unfaithful husband and is somewhat memorable, while a series of unknown actors play her thug rapists. The conclusion is considerably disturbing, though it also plods along at the same pace as the rest of the picture.

Overall, "Demented" is a cheap and tacky effort, and an obvious attempt to capitalize on the rape-and-revenge popularity after "I Spit on Your Grave." It's a technical hodgepodge, marred by lazy cinematography and a weak, single-note script. That said, Young's performance is notably twisted, and the film does attain a dreary and disconcerting atmosphere. It's not a gem, but it's also not quite as terrible as some may lead you to believe. 4/10.

Demented opens with a bang—or to be more accurate, a gang bang—with a harsh pre-credits sequence that sees doctor's wife Linda Rodgers (Sallee Elyse) being attacked by four men wearing stocking masks, vicious sex beasts who rip open her blouse, pull off her panties, and proceed to pass her around like candy. It's a powerful, no-nonsense opener, one that successfully drives home the true horror of rape. After that, one is really rooting for the gal to get revenge, which she does. Sort of...

After a brief spell in a sanatorium, Linda returns home but clearly isn't over her ordeal, suffering from nightmarish visions and panic attacks. Frequently left on her own at night by her unfaithful husband Dr. Matt (Harry Reems, best known for his XXX porn/roughie movies), who has been saving his best bedside manner for aspiring actress Carol (Kathryn Clayton), Linda's grip on reality begins to slip, and when a gang of teens play a cruel prank on her in her home, she confuses them for her rapists and makes for the nearest meat cleaver.

A rather obscure rape/revenge tale, Demented starts strongly and has all the ingredients for a sleazy exploitation classic but fails for two reasons: a) big breasted star Sallee Elyse obviously wasn't hired for her acting ability, and her awful acting and shrill delivery seriously grate on the nerves, and b) the ending is undeniably nasty in tone (Linda whips one poor boy's wedding tackle off with a wire), but isn't anywhere near as graphic as it could have been (the aforementioned meat-and-two-veg/wire incident is completely bloodless) and ultimately proves disappointing.

This is one of those movies that's so bad it's just bad--too plodding, amateurish, gore-free etc. etc. to really be any fun--but it still has some qualities so atrocious they're worth a look, preferably if you're watching with a heavy finger on the fast-forward.

The main thing is the main "actress," who is so awful you can't imagine what they were thinking in casting her. She has a vocal range that goes from screetch to mousy squeak to whine--she'd be ideally cast as a disembodied voice used to drive someone crazy simply because it's SOOOOO annoying. Her (presumably in-character) personality is allowed to be almost equally off-putting; it's amazing how little sympathy we feel for a woman on thin mental ice after being gang-raped, because as played "Linda" is alternately clingy and tantrum-throwing when she's not just running around screaming.

Frankly, I kind of assumed all the actors here were moonlighting porn performers, because male lead Harry Reems (working under a pseudonym) is one; but it turns out the other actors I looked up on IMDb don't even have that excuse for giving less-than-pro-level performances. (In fact Reems embarrasses himself marginally less than anyone else here.) Some of the dialogue just seems arbitrary, as if they were trying to pad the runtime with more yakking to cover up the fact that the violence is so poorly and non-graphically handled.

There's very little logic at work: we never find out how the original rapists got caught, or who they were--let alone SPOILER!--why the nice neighborhood kids who later menace Linda would think scaring a recently gang-raped woman would be a harmless "joke." (Or how at the end Linda figures out something her husband has kept secret.) It's all monumentally dumb, though a slicker and more energetic film would have been required to actually make this an ENJOYABLE ridiculous/bad movie.

Nevertheless, I'll probably never forget lead Sallee Young's performance. Though believe me, I will try. You might want to check five minutes or so of her on YouTube (any scene where she's screaming/menaced is best) just to hear that fingernails-on-chalkboard voice. Funnily enough, it seems her only other substantial role was also as "Linda" in another almost unwatchably bad early 80s horror film, "Home Sweet Home" with "Body by Jake" Steinfeld giving an almost equally ludicrous performance as a crazed killer.

Well, at least this movie doesn't wast too much time on boring introductions or overlong mood-settings. The opening shows a woman caressing her favorite horse for only a brief moment, and the very next second she's assaulted by four sleazebags with stockings over their heads and gang-raped in the stable. This scene is rather short and unclear to watch, yet also rather unsettling because these guys just 'come & go' without even bothering to take their disguise off. A certain period of time later, Linda is released from the mental hospital but definitely not cured yet. Her unfaithful husband (Harry Reems – the porn king) is spending most of his time with his mistress and Linda slowly goes...well...demented! When a new gang of thugs attempts to rape her, she snaps for good. "Demented" is a typical rip off of Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left" but tries to add a (lame) psychological theme. Linda avenges herself and cuts up people with a meat clever, only – supposedly – she's in a totally different state of mind. Whatever. It's a really lame movie, with only a few suspenseful moments and a disappointingly low amount of gore and sleaze. There's the obligatory castration-sequence – thank you "I Spit on your Grave" – but you can hardly make out what's happening. Sallee Young and Kathryn Clayton are ravishing ladies, but not exactly great actresses. Give "Demented" a miss and aim for one of the thousand other underrated rape & revenge films out there, like "Last House on the Beach", "Night Train Murders", "House on the Edge of the Park" or "Fight for your Life".

"Demented" is the undisputed champion of bad movies! And I've seen plenty of them! At least all the bad movies I've seen have some sort of low-grade cheap entertainment value. "Demented" does not! The back of the video box makes it sound much better than it actually is, take it from me, this movie is painful!

The lead actress, Sallee Elysse, challenges only Chesty Morgan and Connie Mason when it comes to bad acting! Whose girlfriend was she? The producer? The screenwriter? No casting director in their right mind would cast her unless she was somebody's girlfriend. The one redeeming value of her performance: she improves a bit when she loses her mind, but that bit is about the size of a breadcrumb. Then, she does flash her chest a lot and that makes up a bit for her ineptitude. The only actor worth noting is Harry Reems (billed here as Bruce Gilchrist), who is good as usual. I had a feeling it was him because of his famous handlebars moustache and it seems weird seeing him involved in simulated sex with his mistress when he can be seen performing hardcore sex in earlier films!

"Demented" borrows liberally from "Last House on the Left", "I Spit On Your Grave", and "Mother's Day". Of course, it has none of the power or "finesse" of those films. The acting is horrible (save Harry Reems/Bruce Gilchrist), none of the plot is very believable and Elysse makes for an annoying rape victim. All she does in her character portrayal is whine about being raped, go crazy and bitch, and cry in a high-pitched whine that has no rival on the annoying scale! Do not even rent this out of curiosity, please just avoid it at all costs! "Demented" deserves to be burnt, blown up, ripped apart by a pack of dogs, I think I've made my point.

Sallee Elyse was (IS?) an attractive woman with fantastic breasts and zero acting ability. This "movie" is absurd, horrible, et al. It's sick and repulsive to watch her getting raped/mauled by punks wearing panty hose over their heads. Sad movie for several reasons:

1) The movie is a waste of celluloid. Period. No real plot. Just a scene in the beginning to enrage/arouse feelings. If her nudity in the movie were a scene with her on screen husband, I'd have enjoyed looking at her fine rack more. As it is..

2) Sad to see a woman go to pieces b/c of a violent attack. Shows the real aspects of rape. NO FUN.

3) No real actors. Sad to see the "actors" in this one fumbling through their lines.

Don't really waste time viewing this, unless you are masochistic.

Sallee's nice boobs aren't worth it.

I'm sorry to say it, but those zombies who gave THIS film bad reviews, should never be allowed to watch another horror movie again. "Demented" is an absolutely BRILLIANT satire on the rape/revenge genre that was so popular at the time. Anyone who thinks the "bad qualities" within this film aren't intentional, just don't get it. Imagine all the aspects of the typical rape film amped up and exaggerated to insane proportions. Rape victim Sallee Elyse (a sexy Melanie Griffith clone) isn't merely an "innocent victim," she's literally an EMOTIONALLY CRIPPLED BABY, who whines and pouts and presents herself as the ultimate victim, the caricature of a woman who is totally helpless and unable to care for herself. Her husband Matt (Reems) isn't merely a cheating husband; he's the biggest, most disgusting DIRT BAG of all time, another extreme caricature of a bad guy. Likewise, his mistress is a hilarious caricature of the gold digging mistress, who asks ol' Harry "how much money did you make last year?" two seconds after he ejaculates inside her. The neighborhood boys likewise are complete animals who cat-call our rape heroine and stick their tongues out at her, abusing her because they know she was raped and they want to get a reaction out of her....which they do, in the film's final act. The first hour of this movie had me rolling on the floor in hysterics, but then it turns serious and the climax really sneaks up on someone who expects this to be a one note film. It stops being funny, and becomes rather twisted, and even a bit sad, as she turns the tables on a group of kids who don't really deserve what happens to them. "Demented" most certainly does not rip off movies like "Last House On the Left..." it parodies them; and the fact that so many horror fans don't get that is a bit depressing. It seems like today's audiences have become accustomed to being spoon fed everything by the rot that passes for "horror films" these days. I must mention the sheer brilliance of casting Adult Film Icon Harry Reems in this. It's no coincidence, and it's a stroke of genius that makes this oddity even more hysterical and fascinating to behold. I always liked Reems, a talented guy who had a definite sense of humor about himself and the adult film industry. He's always good. Many thanks to Shout Factory for digging up the original print of this gem and restoring it to perfection. The widescreen print is absolutely pristine. Reading the negative reviews irritated me so much that I had to jump on here and come to the defense of this cult classic. Enough abuse has been plied on top of poor Sallee Elyse...a woman who just wanted to be alone...

A home movie masquerading as a video film and one which gives bad movies a bad name. I had this given so I didn't waste any money on renting it.I only made it to the end because I was curious to how much worse it could get. The rapists weren't the same one who were the neighbourhood youths so it was not even as if the woman got her revenge on the right people. The acting was no more than you could expect if you brought in people from the street,stuck cue cards in front of them and took it from there. Why do they make these kind of movies which copy ideas from others and copy them badly? This one doesn't even make it as comedy. The storyline is the most hackneyed in the world of horror with not one original line.A woman is gang raped,the rapists are in jail-though after the rape you never saw them again-the husband is having an affair,the wife is having nightmares.Nothing that doesn't happen in real life. The lines are pathetic: "please don't don't do this oh don't PLEASE...." Screams that are totally unconvincing,as if she's just seen a mouse.

Have always enjoyed this film - even though it may well have its flaws. Has there ever been an actress that exuded the raw sex appeal (with the possible exception of Dyanne Thorne) of Sallee Elyse? Unbelievable lady, just fantastic. A shame she only appeared in one other film. Not nearly as well-known as "I Spit on Your Grave", but a definite equal, in my opinion. Most hate this movie but I've spent many years trying to find it for sale. The few that are out there are in horrible condition or bootlegs. Was fortunate enough to locate a copy on eBay recently, although still not a factory original. Anyone else out there enjoy it as well?

Written and co-executive produced by actor Alex Rebar (a.k.a. The Incredible Melting Man), "Demented" is not some long-lost gem of horror & exploitation. In fact, it may not be as exploitative, or gory, as some people might like. It's not bad at all, but the viewer does have to sit through a fair amount of set-up before the climactic "revenge", taking up the last half hour.

They also have to endure a lead performance by Sallee Young that is kind of grating, and not as sympathetic as it should be. She gets better towards the end, when she becomes demented, and plays up her sexuality in order to entice those whom she would like to destroy.

Young plays Linda Rodgers, a young housewife who is raped in the opening minutes by four disgusting creeps in a horse stable. Although we learn that these men were caught and ultimately jailed, Linda is having a real tough time dealing with the trauma. Nobody knows this better than her husband Matt (porn star Harry Reems, acting under a pseudonym), who wants to be sensitive to her plight but who won't stop seeing a lover (Kathryn Clayton) whenever he gets the chance. One fateful night, four neighbourhood boys try to "have some fun" with her, not necessarily meaning any harm, but in her fragile state of mind, she confuses them with the men who actually raped her, and some graphic mayhem is soon to follow.

"Demented" *is* fairly enjoyable, overall, with that final third proving to be worth the wait. One can't help but feel a little bad for most of those boys. One of them gets especially prolonged punishment.

Rebars' script is variable: some of the lines are dumb enough to be funny, and some of them are just plain bad. The supporting performances are basically adequate, with Reems coming off as moderately likeable even if his character is an adulterer. We can see that he's not a completely bad guy.

Although this was technically never an official "Video Nasty", it was included on the compilation tape that Mary Whitehouse would show to the Conservative party for their 1984 conference. When it debuted on tape in Britain, one minute and 19 seconds of cuts were made.

If the viewer is a follower of the rape-revenge genre, they'll probably find this one to be a reasonably watchable shocker.

Six out of 10.

DEMENTED is a preposterous, rather dull "thriller".

Linda Rodgers (Sallee Young) returns home after years in a mental institution, trying to recover from a gang rape. Readjusting to her marriage is difficult, due to her damaged emotions and flashbacks. Her husband (Harry Reems) is no help, since he's busy sneaking off to be with his mistress.

Poor Linda soon finds herself dealing with a whole new group of vicious perverts! She begins to mentally unravel. We know this because her whiny, warbling voice rises to ear-melting levels. Every time Linda gets worked up she sounds like a cross between a bratty 5 year old and a tornado siren! It goes right through your head like a drill!

Linda's attackers are -almost- as annoying as she is. Their deaths, though arriving too late to salvage this movie, do provide some relief.

Linda's final descent into madness is fairly believable, and is the best part of the movie. If only she'd been this good during the first two-thirds!

Special mention goes to Bryan Charles as Linda's gun-toting doctor. He's the only person who seems to care about her, and is also immune to her incessant shrieking that would turn lesser brains into guacamole!...

Demented is a prime slice of the kind of low budget horror/exploitation stuff that doesn't get made anymore. Depending who you are, they might be a good thing or a bad thing.

Sallee Eyse plays Linda, a rape victim who starts to lose her mind and see every man as a potential threat. It doesn't help that her husband (porn star Harry Reems) leaves home every chance he can to sleep around. Left alone, Linda's mental health deteriorates until she becomes a cold-blooded murderess.

It's all very tacky and shot and acted without any real style, but there are a few moments where it comes to life.

Greetings and salutations; welcome to my review of Demented 1980

The story gets a 1 out of 2: The Direction and Pace receive a 1.5 out of 4: The Acting gets a 0.75 out of 2: And, my Enjoyment level hits a 0.25 out of 2:

Giving Demented a maddening 3.5 out of 10:

I say maddening because the premise for this story remains a splendid one. It's a shame the director, writer, and leading lady weren't up to par.

It would have made a thought-provoking and darkly entertaining movie. Regrettably, the writer, Alex Rebar, lacked the skill to structure the story, and script authentic characters and situations. Due to their failings, we get lots of uninteresting dead space with unrelatable characters speaking dire dialogue. What the audience is expecting is a breakdown of a woman's mental health into madness. But what we receive is far less absorbing. Instead of feeling sorrow and pity for Linda Rodgers, who has suffered through a brutal gang rape, I felt anger at her whiny voice and ridiculous outlook on life.

The most destructive element of the film is Linda's (Sallee Young) voice. Her shrillness and churlishness are more irritating than nails on a blackboard. It's a bummer because Young isn't too bad in insane killer mode. But you will have to suffer many aural discomforts to reach these scenes. I came close to hitting that beautifully quiet off button. Alternately, I muted the annoying lady to a whisper.

Add to this a lacklustre direction and a sluggish pace, and you produce a tediously annoying film. And though there are a few scenes in which Arthur Jeffreys structures and lights them perfectly, they are sadly not enough to make this picture worth watching.

If you're looking for a psychological chiller killer of a flick, then this is not for you. I would suggest that should you get a chance to watch this movie opt to watch paint dry instead. Much less irritating.

Come on over to my Chiller Thriller Killers, and The Game Is Afoot to see where the Demented one resides in my charts.

Take Care & Stay Well.

The victim of a rape starts to lose her grip on reality which leads to some incredibly shrill overacting in what's basically a low budget exploitation rip off of Roman Polanski's Repulsion. The revenge portion of the film is ok and somewhat lively, but it takes a really long time to get there and the film isn't well written or well acted enough to keep our interest in the 50 minutes between the opening attack and the last act of revenge.

It has been some years since I saw it, but I have never forgotten it and have been searching for it ever since, without success. It had flaws, but then what movie doesn't? I don't much like the flash, noisy, special effects laden dross that gets churned out nowadays but nearly everybody loves it seems.

I've seen many revenge movies, such as I Spit on your Grave, Last House on the Left and similar type movies, like House on the Edge of the Park and so many horror movies of that genre that most of them all blur in to one eventually, but this one stuck in my mind. I'm not sure why exactly, but the fact that it stands out above all the others I've seen shows it had something about it that made it just that bit different.

I'm sure some would say maybe I just like bad movies, given most of the reviews here, but then how anyone can say House on the Edge of the Park is a good movie is quite beyond me, when in reality it has been mostly instantly forgettable for me, so much the same as so many others of that ilk was it.

I really wish Demented would get a good DVD release. After all, so much utter rubbish does, so if a movie that some regard as rubbish gets put onto DVD, well then, that is just another 'rubbish' movie that has been given a DVD release! And some who may never have seen it, can do so, and many will appreciate and like it, I am sure.

(1980) Demented PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Co-produced and directed by Arthur Jeffreys that opens with four thugs attacking a defenseless woman. We find out she is Linda Rodgers (Sallee Elyse) who is married to doctor, Matt Rodgers (Bruce Gilchrist), and that her attackers are supposed to be locked up by now according to them. Linda is still recovering to which besides her husband who lives with her, is also their gardener, Manuel (Bosco Palazzolo), and he is not there all the time but works their some times. And during this was happening, because Matt is not getting any action from his wife, he also has a mistress, Carol (Kathryn Clayton). To which whenever his mistress calls, he would then have to make up an excuse to go to the hospital just so he can make out with her.

What is so dumb about this film is the fact that Linda Rodgers is supposed to be coming from a wealthy doctor, except that they do not make enough to hire security. They did not have security back in those days, I find that hard to believe. And the way Linda blows her younger sister, Annie (Deborah Alter) away like that was one of the dumbest things I had ever saw. And just when you think she has not been traumatized enough, she then believes her original attackers who attacked her at the opening are still around. After crossing paths with some a couple of obnoxious teenagers of her neighbor Mark (Chip Matthews), they would try to attack her after what happened to her. All of these assault-like movies may been escalated from a controversial movie "I Spit On Your Grave".

After surviving a rape, a woman becomes unglued and starts losing her mind in what's essentially a low budget reimagining of Repulsion without all the class and sophistication. The lead actress does nothing but whine for the entire film and it makes it really hard to root for her, especially when she goes psycho. With a better leading lady, but most of the movie is spent with this character, so if she's not cast right, the whole film is doomed.