Ogroff

Ogroff, also known as Mad Mutilator is a 1983 French slasher film written, directed by, and starring Norbert Moutier and Howard Vernon. Its plot follows an isolated backwoods lumberjack who attacks and murders people passing through his woods.

Cast

Production

The film was shot on Super 8 film in Orléans, France. The film's director, writer, and lead actor, Norbert Moutier, was a video rental store proprietor who devised the film with the hopes of renting it to patrons at his store.

Score

In 2018, Jean Richard's complete musical score was released digitally by Specific Recordings on vinyl and digitally via Bandcamp.

Release

Critical response

Joseph A. Ziemba, published in The [New York Times], described the film as a "gore-drenched... European pastiche of American slashers." 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."

Home media

The film had its DVD premiere on December 4, 2012.