Madness

Madness is a 1980 Italian crime-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Joe Dallesandro. A low-budget film, it was shot in just twelve days. It was first supposed to be directed by Mario Gariazzo. The film was the last film Dallesandro shot in Italy before returning to United States. The Luis Bacalov's musical score is mainly recycled from his scores for Di Leo's Caliber 9 and Maurizio Lucidi's The Designated Victim. Plot (Note: this is the plot to the edited version, the unedited version has several more sex scenes.) Joe escapes from prison by scaling down a wall. To steal a car, he hits a guy with a rock. Another older man sees him, and attacks Joe with a pitchfork. Joe fights him and eventually knocks him out also, then picks up the pitchfork and kills the unconscious older man. He drives off. In an interesting version of social hacking, Joe meets an old man on the side of the road and gets the old man to tell him everything about a nearby house (when the owners are home, when they are not, when the man goes hunting) by claiming to be an insurance salesman. He drives near the house, hides the car, and breaks into the house. Hearing a car approach, he leaves.