There's not much to recommend about this Video Nasty except for the storyline, the premise of which should have resulted in a much better movie, and the acting, though they are wasted in this travesty.

This is the story of a secret society sick with the depravity on the streets of their neighbourhood so they hire a Vietnam Veteran to help clean up their streets... the trouble is he's suffering from shell-shock and starts to any and everyone.

This in itself could have given the audience a bloodfest to remember. However, the director, Peter Maris, opts for a slow pace. Which might have worked well to build tension if there had been a torture scene, which there isn't (another missed opportunity),but hinders the film since it's used throughout its runtime. The slowness of the film is made up of boring and pointless scenes that, though, well acted (compared to everything else),are badly directed. There needed to be more action sequences especially concerning the Vet's breakdown.

There're too many flashbacks to Vietnam. The director is so lazy he just cut in loads of stock footage; this adds to the lackadaisical feel of the direction and hinders the film and frustrates the viewer.

I would only recommend this to anyone who is watching the video nasty list to see why some of the listed films were banned (this one was banned because they thought some people may be prone to copy the actions of the Vet). However, be prepared to keep hitting the rewind button every time you wake up because this film has the power to induce sleep.

For many, many years I had a certain fascination with this movie. I saw its video cover reproduced in a magazine called 'Halls of Horror' way back in the early 80's. The artwork showed a bald man in sun glasses firing a pistol, a woman screaming and a disembodied hand clutching a bloodied hatchet; the tag-line said 'they shall have murder wherever they go…'. I don't know, it may not sound like much now but at the time this strange and slightly lurid poster fascinated me. When I soon after discovered that this film had made it on to the notorious video nasty list my interest just grew even stronger. Looking back on it now and having finally seen Delirium I think I can better understand the pull of that video cover and it's actually reflected in the film itself. The poster is really somewhat odd in that it mixes genre iconography – its part horror, part action-thriller. And in essence that's what the movie itself is too. It combines genres in a somewhat unusual way. It's kind of a slasher mixed in with a vigilante flick, with a dash of post-Vietnam exploitation thrown in for good measure. This crazy mish-mash of styles is one of the things that makes Delirium interesting.

The story revolves around a secret group of Vietnam vets who are hired by businessmen to administer extreme justice to criminals who escape the law. One of the group goes on a serial killing rampage murdering a series of young women.

It isn't really very surprising that this one made the video nasty list. It's not exactly overly graphically violent but it has a pretty clear streak of misogyny running through it. The killer essentially goes around killing young hot women in some scenes that are pretty lurid. It does have to be said though that the psychopath is killed off a little too early, seeing as he is probably the most interesting part of the story. The vigilante side of the narrative makes up the rest of the movie. The head honcho turns out to be that bald man from the video cover I saw all those years ago. Quite bizarrely, the most disturbing moment from the scenes involving this underground group is scored by the soundtrack to the quiz show Mastermind. You can't help but expect Magnus Magnusson to pop around the corner and say 'your specialist subject is vigilante justice and misogynistic violence'. But of course he does not and it remains a deeply strange viewing experience for audiences from the UK to witness.

This isn't a movie with a very good reputation. Admittedly it's technically raw and clunky. But it's also kind of unusual and agreeably sleazy. It's pretty entertaining all things considered.

A dark night somewhere in St. Louis, Susan Narcross (Debi Chaney) arrives home to find her roommate Jenny Thompson (Pat Knapko) murdered, impaled on a door with a spear. Detective Sergeant Paul Dollinger (Nick Panouzis) and his partner Detective Larry Mead (Terry Ten Broeck) are put on the case. They interview Susan who tells them of a date Jenny had been on that night with a man named Charlie (Turk Chekovsky) who had been in the office where they work earlier in the day looking for a job, and that they should question her boss Donald Andrews (Bob Winters). The following day the two Detectives visit Andrews but he is unhelpful and evasive and seems to be hiding something. Meanwhile, Charlie steals a car and picks a hitchhiker (Letty Garris) up. He drives her to a beach, she decides to take all her clothes off and have a swim in the sea. Charlie follows her in and strangles her. Charlie's real name is Charles Gunther an ex Vietnam vet who recently escaped from the Illinois state mental hospital. The guy has gone psycho because of the violence he witnessed in Vietnam, and the fact that a Vietnamese prostitute (Charlotte Littrel) taunted and laughed at him when he couldn't get an erection! Charlie has been hired by Stern (Barron Winchester) who runs a kangaroo court to correct injustices by the legal system and real courts, but Charlie has flipped his lid and is killing everyone he runs into, most of them being attractive young girls. After listening in on one of her bosses conversations and becomes suspicious, Susan herself becomes a target. Dollinger and Mead are baffled, all of their leads produce nothing but dead ends. Their Captain (Harry Gorsuch) is piling on the pressure, and they also have to deal with a sudden spate of suicides among criminals. Will they be able to save Susan and put an end to Stern's self righteous campaign of murder?

Directed by Peter Marris this is a bit of an odd film. It unsuccessfully blends various genres, little bits of horror with Charlie sticking pitchforks through girls throats and killing people with meat cleavers. War, there are various incredibly poorly done flashbacks of Charlie and Stern plus their fellow soldiers having gun fights in what looks like a football field and some local woods. Action, there's a small car chase with a few explosions and a shootout at the end. Romance as Mead and Susan become involved with each other, and crime with Stern trying to sort out St. Louis's injustices. It doesn't quite work, though. It's certainly different but just not very exciting or interesting. The script by Richard Yalem, who has a cameo as Peter Sykes who is thrown into the Mississippi in the opening sequence, is a little talky and reveals too much too soon, it might have helped if all these sub plots remained mystery's and were tied up at the end but instead the script reveals all very early on. Technically the film is poor, special effects, photography, acting, editing and music are all well below par. Talking of the music this film either borrows or more likely steals the theme tune to the British quiz show Mastermind, as someone who lives in the UK and has heard this music several times on Mastermind it sounds ridiculous to hear it on the soundtrack to this. I would probably describe this film as an interesting misfire. At least the makers tried to do something a little different, it's just a shame it doesn't quite work and the film lacks any kind of polish.