Dementia 13

From the box: "... Fresh out of UCLA Coppola found work under the tutelage of B-movie legend Roger Corman. ... Corman opted to usee leftover funds to finance a low budget thriller to cash in on the sucess of Alfred Hitchcock;s Psycho. Coppola quickly delivered a script to Corman's liking, promising plenty of nudity and gore. ... Copolla made the most of his limited resources, while employing the sort of creative lighting,, camera angles, and storytelling that reveals an early glimpse at the great filmmaking that would follow."

Cult Horror Classic -- Story: Louise Haloran descends on her deceased husband's in-laws in hopes of an inheritence. Instead she finds two dysfunctional brothers who entertain themselves by insulting each other and an emotionally crippled mother-in-law who's still grieving the loss of her daughter after years and years. Ingratiating herself w/ mother, and creating ghostly signs, Louise ends trapped in an eerie, decrepit Irish castle with an axe-wielding maniac eliminating the 'suspects' of the continual murders one by one. The doctor appoints himslef detective and trys to determine whose leaving blood-spattered corpses in his wake while there are still some family members left.

This is a must for B horror movie fans. It's fun and compared to the slasher movies of the '80's very little blood. It's at the top pf it's class in B flicks.

Remastered in hi def; 5.1 surround sound; B & W; before and after restoration demo; original movie art postcard included; transferred from original 35 mm elements.

Can you believe this movie is Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by Roger Corman? Nether can the viewer. I am not sure how it made it to film. However it has collector value.

Dementia 13 is not a bad movie; it is a little dark in more ways than one. The just is nothing significant about it other than a few hacker scenes.

We find our self in a Castle with a murderer who is bumping every one off. The question is "who done it?"

Was it Lizzie Borden or Jeffery Dalmer?

Maybe it was mommy?

Or the mad doctor?

Who knows?

This movie makes a good addition to slasher movies and it is not as mindless as most.

In 1963, the movie audience had already experienced the new kind of psychological horror movie born with the great PSYCHO. Francis Ford Coppola's attempt at matching that horror is greatly inferior, of course, but as an exercise in mental terror, it works on its own subliminal level. The wonderful Luana Anders starts out the film virtually murdering her rich husband, and then tosses his body in a pond, telling the family he's off on a business trip. She wants his Mama to change the will to include the in-laws. As in PSYCHO, Anders is dispatched early in the film in a very surprising way, and although it can't touch Janet Leigh's demise in PSYCHO or Angie Dickinson's in DRESSED TO KILL, it packs a wallop. From there on in, it's time to figure out who the nasty killer is. It's fairly easy to pick the killer out, but there are some wildly frenetic scenes before getting there. Bart Patton and Patrick Magee provide excellent support and one can detect the future genious of Coppola in this atmospheric thriller.