I, Madman (1989) Revisited - Horror Movie Review (2025)

It’s time for a new episode of our The Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series, and in this one we’re looking back at the 1989 film I, Madman (get it HERE). To find out all about the movie, which is also known by the title Hardcover in some countries, check out the video embedded above.

Directed by Tibor Takács from a screenplay written by David Chaskin, I, Madman has the following synopsis:

Beautiful bookseller Virginia fosters a growing interest in the works of reclusive novelist Malcolm Brand. After much fruitless searching, Virginia finally receives a package containing Brand’s recent book, “I, Madman,” about a deranged doctor spurned by a beautiful woman. But, as Virginia devours Brand’s latest offering, she begins to have chilling visions of characters from the book — and the line between fiction and reality grows terrifyingly thin.

Jenny Wright of Near Dark stars and is joined in the cast by Randall William Cook, Clayton Rohner, Stephanie Hodge, Michelle Jordan, Vance Valencia, Mary Baldwin, Raf Nazario, Bob Frank, and Bruce Wagner.

OurBest Horror Movie You Never Sawseries is

dedicated to highlighting horror films that, for one reason or another, don’t get as much love as we think they should. We know plenty of you horror hounds out there will have seen many of the movies we pick, but there will be plenty of you who have not.

TheI, Madmanepisode ofBest Horror Movie You Never Sawwas Written by Eric Walkuski, Narrated by Shawn Knippelberg, Edited by Paul Bookstaber, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

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