Deranged (1987 film)

Joyce has been suffering from schizophrenia ever since the death of her father. When Joyce is brutally attacked by a home invader, she kills the intruder by stabbing him with a pair of scissors. She later has a miscarriage as a result of the attack. As a result of her mental state, she does not call the police and instead stays isolated in her apartment, living on delivered food from and having visions of her therapist, her mother, and her father.

• Veronica Hart as Joyce^[2]
• Jamie Gillis as Eugene
• Jerry Butler as Frank

Chuck Vincent had long developed the idea of doing a single set film with flashbacks and compared it structurally to a stage play. He also cited the Pornographic horror film Memories Within Miss Aggie by Gerard Damiano as an influence. Vincent shot the film in continuity over the course of five days following a three-day rehearsal. In order to avoid an X-rating, the MPAA required Vincent to cut out some violence and eliminate a scene in which an intimate couple in bed was in the same shot as a baby. Vincent acquiesced as he did not feel the cut content was especially important. Vincent was unaware there was previously a 1974 film with the same title, as the MPAA never told him. He was able to keep the title as the producers of the 1974 film never registered the title.^[1]

Veronica Hart was credited under her real name Jane Hamilton in the film.^[3]

Deranged had its premiere at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival on May 10, 1987.^[4] A release in the United States followed on October 30, 1987.^[4]