| Ogroff | |
| Director: | N. G. Mount |
| Music: | Jean Richard |
| Cinematography: | Marc Georges |
| Editing: | Philippe Brossard |
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| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
Ogroff, also known as Mad Mutilator is a 1983 French slasher film written, directed by, and starring Norbert Moutier (as N. G. Mount) and Howard Vernon.[1] Its plot follows an isolated backwoods lumberjack who attacks and murders people passing through his woods.
The film was shot on Super 8 film[2] in Orléans, France.[3] The film's director, writer, and lead actor, Norbert Moutier (credited as N. G. Mount), was a video rental store proprietor, who devised the film with the hopes of renting it to patrons at his store.[2]
In 2018, Jean Richard's complete musical score was released digitally by Specific Recordings on vinyl and digitally via Bandcamp.[4]
Joseph A. Ziemba, published in The New York Times, described the film as a "gore-drenched... European pastiche of American slashers."[5] Promoting a revival screening, the Alamo Drafthouse wrote of the film in a press release: "Director N.G. Mount’s kinetic stylings rip-off any number of early 80s slashers -- and trumps them all. Mount’s madness on all visual, technical, and constitutional levels achieves an iconic trash perfection that is only equalled by fellow idiosyncratic filmmakers Nick Millard, Doris Wishman, and Chester Turner."[6]
The film had its DVD premiere on December 4, 2012.[7]