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DELIRIUM – The Greatest Movie Ever Shot in St. Louis Finally Gets a Blu-ray Release January 25th From Severin Films

By Tom Stockman | November 19, 2021

“DELIRIUM explores the limits to which the human mind can be stretched.”

DELIRIUM (1979) will finally be on Blu-ray January 25th thanks to Severin Films. It can be pre-ordered HERE. Here’s their trailer:

A fascinating snapshot of St. Louis circa 1978, DELIRIUM is my favorite film ever shot here. The cars and hairstyles date the film nostalgically but it’s the many exteriors of St. Louis that make DELIRIUM such a home-town joy now 43 years later. Cars speeding up and down Market and Kingshighway (the Arch prominently in the background), a shoot-out finale on Laclede’s Landing, scenes at the STL Police HQ, The Post Dispatch building and familiar offices in Clayton, the film has a lot of exteriors which will make locals smile.. I’ve always been fascinated this sleazy R-rated, low-budget slasher film, which I saw at the I-44 Drive-in July 20^th 1979, when it opened at 12 screens in St. Louis. That means there were at least a dozen 35mm prints of the film struck, but only one has survived, and the film restorers at Severin got their hands on it.

Joe Pollack, the late film critic for The Post Dispatch, has a small role in the film, but still could not bring himself to write a positive review:

For his feature film debut, director Peter Maris (MINISTRY OF VENGEANCE, DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY) took portions of an unfinished urban conspiracy thriller and added a new psycho-killer procedural to create what may be the most unusual/vicious proto-slasher shocker of the ‘70s: When a series of savage murders rocks St. Louis, the police investigation will lead to a deranged Vietnam vet “who looks like a cracked-out Seth McFarlane” (HorrorNews.net), an underground organization of white-collar vigilantes, gratuitous nudity, graphic violence and an absolute masterclass in low-budget regional filmmaking

One of the very first Section 2 Video Nasties, this longtime VHS rarity – also known as PSYCHO PUPPET – is now presented on disc for the first time ever, restored from the only known 35mm print in existence.