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In L. A., agoraphobic Hank Stone (Ted Raimi) has not left his apartment since moving in six months ago. He has disturbing delusions about brain spiders, a mad doctor, bad rappers, and other stuff. Nancy (Deborah Foreman) thinks that she's cursed. She gets dumped by her cruel boyfriend Ray (Bruce Campbell) and loses her hotel room. She gets chased by a gang of street thugs. A random phone call brings the two loners together.

It takes almost forty minutes to bring the two leads together. It takes too long to get going. Quite frankly, I wonder if this would be better as her story over a crazy night. He could be a part of her crazy night. 80's star Deborah Foreman faded out as she advanced into her 30's. It's an old Hollywood story. This low budget B-movie is reason enough for her to start thinking about retiring. It's not that good. Hank's surreal delusions aren't compelling or funny enough. I keep thinking about the rappers. Only weak comedies think that those guys are funny. The movie seems more interested in its b-level special effects. It needs better humor or better romantic chemistry. It needs something better.

Lunatics: A Love Story is simply a great romantic comedy. Ted Raimi is funny as his role as a psychopathic man who thinks about spiders eating his brains, suicide, sadistic doctors, and rappers. Another thing that made this movie simply the best was Bruce Campbell. He can make a movie ten times much better.

10/10

Lunatics is a great example of how you can tell a sensitive, funny, crazy story with two basic sets. You can have not the millions of Spielberg, but you can make a good movie with a good story.

The day every time in Hollywood come back from nonsense to senses, they realize that is a guy named Josh Becker, the director of this movie. Becker's films are really clever, funny, and change something in you. I am his fan from that night some years ago when I see "Lunatics" in TV.

Then I did think he was some Sam Raimi sidekick, but NO. Becker is the original thing, he's real real, and love the cinema how nobody more in the world. If you is a wannabe of filmmaker go to his site and read his manifesto, "Dogma 2006". He's our great hope for better movies. Becker's better.

LUNATICS: A LOVE STORY stars Ted Raimi as Hank, a man who is a veritable prisoner in his tiny apartment. Hank is a bit... unstable. His entire life is pretty much one big hallucinatory nightmare. Hank also writes poetry.

Enter Nancy (Deborah Foreman), a young woman who believes her life is cursed. She just might be right. Nancy's also handy with a gun. Oh, and she writes poetry too.

Will these two kids be drawn together by the hand -or foot- of destiny? You betcha!

If you're tired of cookie-cutter, melodramatic love stories, then you should get a kick out of this insane rendition thereof. It's utterly bonkers, and yet it has a romantic heart -and liver- that can't be denied.

Both Mr. Raimi and Ms. Foreman are hilariously deranged. Bruce Campbell is along for the ride as Nancy's jerkweed boyfriend, as well as a mad brain surgeon, annnd Edgar Alan Poe on a book cover!

Watch this right now, but don't forget the aluminum foil...

This just has to be one of the funniest films ever, and nobody ever talks about it. I was lucky to have stayed up one night and had Showtime on, and this film was on. When I saw the Raimi family had something to do with this film, I knew I had better watch it, and I did. Now I own it and watch it all the time. This is a great film. On a scale of 1 to 10 this is a rare but well needed 10!