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Schizo [DVD]

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  • Format: PAL
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Salvation Films
  • DVD Release Date: 26 May 2008
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0013GO4W0
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 93,160 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Nasty 1970s slasher sleaze directed by Pete Walker. Lynne Frederick stars as Samantha, a young woman about to be married, yet haunted by her past. After her wedding she finds that her close friends are being horrifically murdered one by one, and that each death seems to be bringing her closer to the murderer.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By David TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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Schizo is a typical Pete Walker (Frightmare, House Of Whipcord, The Comeback) film - cheaply made, lots of gore and very enjoyable. Schizo was released in 1976 (they new how to make decent horror films in the 70's) and concerns a young woman Samantha (Lynn Frederick) who witnessed her mother's murder when she was a child. Now just married she is being stalked by her mother old lover (played by sinister Jack Watson). Then her friends start to be murdered one by one.

The plot is quite easy to follow and there is a nice twist near the end. There are the usual selection of 70's actors including Stephanie Beacham (Dracula A D 72, Tenko) and John Leyton. For those of you who like abit of blood there is quite a few of gory killings. The print itself is rather grainy and looks rather washed out. The extras are rather dissapointing all you get is a stills gallary and a Pete Walker filmography. It would have been nice to has a commentary by Pete Walker or some of the cast. appart from that this is an enjoyable British horror film and well worth adding to your collection.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good British thriller 20 Jan 2010
"Schizo" is a pretty good thriller about a girl who seems to be the target of a mad killer played by the excellent Jack Watson (a very underrated actor). In fact the truth is not so simple... The film begins slowly, but step by step the violence increases. Lynne Frederick is a good choice for the part of the victim. There's also the beautiful Stephanie Beacham, a charming Hammer lady who played in Dracula A.D. 72 with Peter Cushing. Of course the film of Pete Walker has not the graphic violence of an Italian giallo, but it's well done and effective. There's a seance of a medium which is very impressive. It's after this seance that the murders become more violent. Fans of slasher movies from the seventies will be pleased with this British thriller. Unfortunately the print isn't so fine, but it's OK for this rare film. No subtitles. Poor stills gallery. However I recommand this DVD.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable sleaze 23 Jan 2010
By All of them Witches TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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Another blood and t*ts sleaze fest from Pete Walker similar in respects to another of his films 'The Comeback' but a bit better I thought. Begining with a rather unfortunate and inaccurate aural description of the condition of 'schizophrenia' that sets the scene for this story of a deranged killer stabbing their way thru 70's London.
The story revolves around a young woman and well known ice skater played by Lynne Frederick who having witnessed the murder of her mother (by her mothers lover) when a small child begins to believe that her mothers murderer is now stalking her since his release from prison.
The film starts with a grim presentation of the 'North East' whereby the convicted man leaves prison and departs by train to the considerably brighter lights and glamour of London, with all his wordly possessions, shirts, socks, 20 inch blade in tow after reading about this now grown-up girls impending marriage.
After a bit of a build-up the killings soon begin with gusto. The woman's associates are turning up dead and Pete Walker quite skilfully opens up a number of possible threads and plot developments that make this more than a straight forward by the numbers slasher. All the performances are good, there is nudity and claret in the usual Walker fashion; some good set pieces including some rather more sensitive and accurate depictions of symptoms more commonly associated with schizophrenia. Some parts of the film are as subtle as a housebrick through the window but that is part of the appeal in films like this from this era.
An enjoyable sleazy film though not maybe a bona fida classic like 'Frightmare' or his two 'House of....' films. Sadly the lead actress Lynne Frederick died aged 39 from substance abuse, her life is a very interesting affair but that's another story.
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4.0 out of 5 stars unsung talent of british cinema 5 Sep 2009
By galeee
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I was aware of pete walker and in 2005, bought anchor bays box set,with four excellent films and the weaker"die screaming marianne".Together with norman j warren,these two directors made some of the best british indie,thriller/horrors of the 70s.Pete's,all bar one,self-financed."schizo"does what is says on the tin,lynne frederick delivers a good performance in the lead,with jack watson,the "is it too obvious?"red-herring,and cast members are dispatched the walker way,bloody.Alas,no shelia keith,but you cant keep using the same actors can you?there is a stand out scene for me,the seance,look out for that.I confess,i havent seen his sex films,but i have seen"man of violence"pete's gangster film from the late 60s,before he got into his stride in the mid 70s,with "house of the whipcord".All in all though,a decent film from a unsung talent of british cinema(well,at least the NFT acknowledged him in the late 1970s with an all night showing of his films)
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3.0 out of 5 stars A British Giallo perhaps?!? 16 Jun 2009
By Jeremy W. Newbould TOP 1000 REVIEWER
This is a 1970s British-made slasher film that actually has much in common with the Italian giallo sub-genre that was also popular at this time what with its plot twists, red herrings, flashback scenes and several brutal murders thrown in for good measure to help keep the narrative moving along nicely. I quite like Pete Walker's movies. In the 1970s he and Norman J. Warren were the bad boys of the British horror film scene and their output differed greatly from that being churned out by companies such as Hammer and Amicus at that time. They were not afraid to take risks and they never shied away from potentially controversial and shocking subject matter. Needless to say their horror films often contained loads of sex and violence that made most Hammer horrors look tame in comparison.

I won't give too much away about Schizo's plot (I'm sure most people will work out who the actual killer is anyway long before the film reaches its climax) but it centres around a beautiful young ice skater, played by the lovely but ill-fated Lynne Frederick (who was once married to Peter Sellars), who is about to marry a bloke who owns a carpet making business (yes, really). Unfortunately there is a troubled incident in her past that happened when she was a little girl and she is haunted by memories of this (little snippets of what happened are revealed in flashbacks at various points of the film). To make matters even worse she starts receiving strange phone calls and she thinks she is being stalked by a rough looking man in a woolley hat!!! She also has sexy Stephanie Beacham to worry about (that's one worry I wouldn't mind having) - could Steph be after her husband or is she just after a cheap carpet? Everyone thinks she is paranoid and imagining things until the body count starts going up.
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