Psychotic Saturdays! Six Flicks Of The Truly Psychotic

Time for another Psychotic Saturdays Post! The day that we all must set back or pass out from recreational abuse after a night of debauched frenzy and truly enjoy this most psychotic of times! These films all have a common principle that applies to them. “Sometimes the truly fucked up mind is not one of self degradation but one of a more familial creation.” People are how they were raised to be and a psychotic raised by a psychotic can become so much more than a basic tragedy. His (or Her) story can be a truly twisted tale that echoes through the criminal echelon for all time.








1. Twisted (1986)

One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they need a new babysitter for an upcoming big party. The sensible Helen meets little Susan Collins at the discount market and likes her, so she offers to do the job. She doesn't know Susan's teenage brother Mark - technically skilled and good in school, but restive and cunning. As soon as the parents have left, he starts psychologically terrorizing Helen and his sister with electronic tricks.

2.  Don’t Go Into The House (1980)

Donny Kohler is a deeply disturbed guy who is plagued by the morality of an over bearing mother, a mother who even in death torments him with her constant criticism. He of coarse takes this out in a frantic and truly demented frenzy of torture on young women he lures to his home.

3. Born For Hell (1976)

After the war a Vietnam vet with truly psychotic tendencies releases his post traumatic aggression on a house of young nurses.

4. Schizoid (1980)

An advise columnist seeking help herself in group therapy session realizes she is the target of a truly psychotic individual. One by one the woman in her therapy group end up dead as the killer gets closer to knowing her.

5. What’s The Matter With Helen? (1971)


Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

6. Cassandra (1986)

A young woman has eerie flashes of recovered memories of her brother committing a murder, despite her parents assurance that all is well.

So as you enjoy this Saturday either with your family or trying to avoid your family take a moment to unwind with a little mental mania with these Psychotic tells for this truly Psychotic Saturday!