Klaus Kinski, an actor who always gives great presence, stars as a Californian therapist who's clients are being murdered by a maniac, who is the killer? Schizoid is often marked as a slasher movie but in reality it is more of a psycho thriller, an American Giallo even. There are many similarities to the Italian Giallo that preceded it. The unknown, black leather glove wearing maniac uses a pair of long scissors. I counted only three murders and although they are nasty and well staged there is very little bloodshed. There are several red herrings as to the identity of the killer, I worked it out way before the end, which was a bit disappointing. There's some sex scenes for good measure - kinky Klaus has sex with a stripper in her dressing room, another scene has him watching his near naked teenage daughter in a thoroughly inappropriate way. I watched this on VHS and was going to score it 6/10, however I have ordered it on blu-ray, I'm sure that it will look much better, hence my 7.
Review of Schizoid
