TRUTH IS ODDER THAN FICTION

The special-effects character played by Bryan Brown in “F/X” has worked on some odd-sounding movies--like “Vermin From Venus,” “I Dismember Mama” and “Rock-a-Die Baby.”

Frighteningly, two of those gruesome titles aren’t fictional. According to director Robert Mandel, Thomas Pope, who worked on a revision of the “F/X” script, slipped in the nod to “Rock-a-Die-Baby.” It’s a blast from Pope’s past (he wrote it) that was filmed in 1975.

Writer Alan Ormsby (who scripted Mandel’s upcoming “Touch and Go”) suggested the paean to dear old mom.

For the hopelessly curious, “I Dismember Mama” was filmed in 1972 under the original title “Poor Albert and Little Annie” and starred Zoey Hall as a Hollywood psycho who knocked off women (to punish his mom) and who finally fell in love with a 9-year-old girl! It was retitled in the early ‘80s and, in the words of a Daily Variety reviewer, enjoys an “enduring notoriety.”