Madman

Madman (also known as Madman Marz and The Legend Lives) is a 1982 horror-slasher film directed and written by Joe Giannone. The film is similar in style and feel to Friday the 13th and The Burning. The makers of ''Madman'' unfortunately, seem to have grasped most of these opportunities to mess things up, and exploited them to maximum effect to create one of the slasher sub-genres more inept and bumbling of offerings.

The film starts with the legend of ''Madman Marz'' being related to a group of children and camp councilors around a camp fire, on a summer retreat for gifted children. The camp proprietor (Carl Fredericks) tells how an abusive local farmer (Paul Ehlers) went berserk and killed his entire family with an axe (cue flashback of the Madman's little kiddies getting an axe slammed into their heads!), then calmly turned up at his local tavern, his axe still covered in the blood of his butchered wife and kids! The townspeople are rather intolerant of such maniacal shenanigans, and ten of them confront Marz, hang him from a tree and, just for good measure, whack him in the face with his own axe leaving a hideous bloody wound. The next day however, Marz's body is missing and so are the bodies of his family.

Legend has it that if anyone calls his name aloud, the Madman will come for them - and will not be satisfied until he's hanged or chopped or done something incredibly nasty to them.
Madman was released on dvd February 13, 2001, by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The dvd has since gone out of print, and is sought by horror and slasher film connoisseurs.