Paranoid: A Chant (Matthew Crum)

Title: Paranoid: A Chant (1994) (USA)
Runtime: 8′
Based on the story: Paranoid: A Chant
Director(s): Matthew Crum
(Script-)writer(s): Matthew Crum
Producer(s): Matthew Crum
Cast: Michael Thaxton, Matthew Shaton, Rachel Stafford, Von Haynes
Additional Crew: Jim Branham

The poem is a first-person narrative from the diary of a person with paranoid schizophrenia, the character complains of persecution from “the old woman in the room above” who “has put an electric suction cup on the floor…” “the waitress says it was salt, but I know arsenic when it’s put before me…” and many more …

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