Silent Madness

Due to budgetary constraints and human error, homicidal madman Howard Johns (Solly Marx) is released from a mental institution. Dr. Joan Gilmore (Belinda Montgomery) attempts to figure out what went wrong, while Johns heads for a sorority house for a night of murderous mayhem.

SILENT MADNESS is another forgotten slasher from the golden age of the sub-genre. As such, it has a certain charm. All of the prerequisites are in place: A maniac on a mission, beautiful female victims, nudity, gore, and an explanatory flashback sequence.

The sorority sisters are all suitably silly, and Marx's goggle-eyed portrayal of Johns is gleefully crazy. Ms. Montgomery is believably exasperated.

An enjoyable enough ball of bloody yarn.

Watch for Sydney Lassick as the Sheriff and Viveca Lindfors as the -underused- house mother...

This was an enjoyable movie with good characters, plot, acting, directing, music and effects. It must have been heart breaking to put the work into the gory fx only to have annoying censors delete it just cause. This movie really had the potential be more than a cheesy B horror.

Either ways, what's left is a nooted horror with little actual depictions of the numerous grizzly death scenes in the movie. I would say this movie could have been as good as the original friday the 13th's or sleepaway camps but they destroyed it in its prime. Still worth seeing though for everything else.

Mostly predictable slasher flick with one nice twist towards the end and some fun 3D effects. The story itself sounds more interesting on paper than it ends up in the film, but it's anchored by a great performance by Belinda Montgomery who seems to think she's in a much classier film than she is. Viveca Lindfors chews up the scenery in the best way as the housemother of a sorority where a series of brutal murders took place. It's not a movie you'll remember much about when it's over, but it's not the worst way to spend 90 minutes of your time.

Silent Madness (1984) is a movie that was highly recommended on Twitter and is available for free on YouTube. The story focuses on the head of a Psychiatric ward who releases an inmate and blames it on a computer glitch. A group from the ward tracks down a trail of murders to a sorority house where they hope to finally catch the killer. This movie is directed by Simon Nutchtern (Savage Dawn) and stars Belinda Montgomery (Tron: Legacy), Vivica Lindfors (Creepshow) and Sydney Lassick (Carrie). This was a fun old school slasher film with some better than expected kill scenes and predictable but well done sequences. The premise was also entertaining as was the dialogue between characters. This truly has a classic 80s slasher feel to it you'll thoroughly enjoy. I'd score it a 6-6.5/10.

O.K here is yet another mid-80's slasher film. I remember this film briefly playing in the NYC area. It was originally shown in 3-D. Basically a routine, mental patient escaping from the insane asylum to kill sorority girls film. Overall, it's fairly watchable. Decent pacing and photography help. The sub-plot did not. The little twist at the end worked. The killing sequences were average. I missed it in 3-D so I can't say if the 3-D sequences were good. If anyone saw it in 3-D let me know! I recommend Silent Madness to those who are used to this kind of stuff already. If you only appreciate big scale films, don't bother you won't appreciate it. If you appreciate low budget grind house cinema of the 70's-80's you will enjoy!