''Ogroff'', also known as ''Mad Mutilator'' is a 1983 French

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written, directed by, and starring Norbert Moutier (as N. G. Mount) and

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. Its plot follows an isolated backwoods lumberjack who attacks and murders people passing through his woods.

Cast

* Norbert Moutier as Ogroff * Robert Alaux * Françoise Deniel * Pierre Pattin * Alain Petit as Lumberjack *

as Vampire

Production

The film was shot on

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Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
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proprietor, who devised the film with the hopes of renting it to patrons at his store.

Score

In 2018, Jean Richard's complete musical score was released digitally by Specific Recordings on

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and digitally via

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Release

Critical response

Joseph A. Ziemba, published in ''

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'', described the film as a "gore-drenched... European

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of American

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s." Promoting a revival screening, the

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wrote of the film in a press release: "Director N.G. Mount’s kinetic stylings rip-off any number of early 80s slashers -- and trumps them all. Mount’s madness on all visual, technical, and constitutional levels achieves an iconic trash perfection that is only equalled by fellow idiosyncratic filmmakers Nick Millard,

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, and

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Home media

The film had its

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premiere on December 4, 2012.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0844321 1983 horror films 1983 films 1980s French films 1980s slasher films Backwoods slasher films Camcorder films Films about cannibalism Films shot in France French slasher films French splatter films French zombie films