Schizoid (film)

Schizoid
Directed by	David Paulsen
Produced by	Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
Music by	Craig Hundley
Cinematography	Norman Leigh
Editing by	Richard S. Brummer, Robert Fitzgerald, Parvez Zabier
Release date(s)	September 1980
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Schizoid (also known as Murder by Mail) is a 1980 horror film directed and written by David Paulsen.

Plot

Julie (Marianna Hill) is an advice columnist for the city newspaper who begins to receive anonymous notes threatening murder and worse. At about the same time, female members of the group therapy session she attends are being stabbed, one by one, by an unknown assailant. Is there a connection? If so, why do the notes talk about murder with a gun, while the murder victims are being stabbed? At first, the police, her ex-husband, her therapist and her friends all assure her that the notes are probably unrelated, and hoax; but with time, it becomes apparent that someone close to her is responsible. Is it her therapist, Pieter (Klaus Kinski), who has sex with his patients just before they are murdered? Or Pieter's daughter (Donna Wilkes), who resents Julie for Julie's romantic involvement with Pieter? Is it Julie's ex-husband (Craig Wasson), who never really wanted their divorce? Or maybe Gilbert (Christopher Lloyd), the eccentric building maintenance man?

Cast

• Richard Herd as Donahue
• Marianna Hill as Julie
• Klaus Kinski as Pieter Fales
• Christopher Lloyd as Gilbert
• Craig Wasson as Doug
• Donna Wilkes as Alison Fales
• Joe Regalbuto as Jake
• Flo Gerrish as Pat
• Kiva Lawrence as Rosemary

Release

The film was given a limited release theatrically by the Cannon Group beginning in September 1980. It was subsequently released on VHS by MCA-Universal Home Video and was also released on betamax by Rank Video in the UK.^[1] As of 2011, the film has not been officially released on DVD.

References

1. ^ "Company Credits for Schizoid". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081459/companycredits. Retrieved 2011-04-13. 

External links

• Schizoid at the Internet Movie Database