Dementia 13
Are you afraid of death by drowning? Have you ever attepted suicide? Have you ever thought of committing murder?
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: American Pop Classic
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Luana Anders & William Campbell | |
Performer: | Ethne Dunn, Peter Read, Mary Mitchell & Patrick Magee | |
Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola | |
Screenwriting by | Jack Hill & Francis Ford Coppola | |
Composition by | Ronald Stein | |
Produced by | Roger Corman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
One of the many low budget shockers produced in the wake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", "Dementia 13" is a surprisingly effective knockoff with unique qualities of its own.
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Kinetofilm
Rating: C+ --
There was no way to tell from the debut of Coppola, then 24, a low-budget horror flick produced by Roger Corman, that in a decade he would become the most influential director.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/4 --
A little gem of gothic horror, stylishly helmed on a shoestring budget.
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TV Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
A peerless horror film of the low-budget variety, a sort of how-to guide for future filmmakers on working with a limited budget.
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Movie-Vault.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This early effort remains an interesting part of Coppola's filmography -- certainly more than such latter-day stinkbombs as Jack and Youth Without Youth.
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Creative Loafing
Like [Coppola's] later Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), it's an intriguing example of style over substance.
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Combustible Celluloid
It's standard horror fare -- with one interesting effect that turned up again, 12 years later, in The Conversation.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
John Haloran has a heart attack. His wife Louise won't get any of the inheritance from his mother's estate if he is dead, so she forges a letter from him to convince his family he's in NY on business to ensure a cut of the inheritance. His sister had also drowned and the family enacts a morbid ritual in remembrance. Following the abrupt death of her husband from a heart attack, the scheming Louise Haloran (Luanda Anders) travels to her in-laws estate in Ireland, only to find herself trapped in a creepy, decrepit castle with her ex-husband's demented family. Upon arrival, she is introduced to a pair of maladjusted brothers (William Campbell, Bart Patton) and a distraught mother-in-law (Eithne Dunn), still grieving for the daughter she lost in a drowning accident many years earlier. When a mysterious axe-wielding psychopath enters the fray, leaving blood-spattered corpses in his wake, the family's doctor (Patrick Magee) takes it upon himself to try to get to the bottom of things--before it's too late! The making of Dementia 13, meanwhile, is a tale unto itself. An aspiring film-maker fresh out of UCLA, Coppola found work under the tutelage of B-movie legend Roger Corman, doing sound, editing and various other tasks. After finishing a film called The Young Racers under budget, Corman opted to use the leftover funds to finance a low-budget thriller to cash in on the success of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Coppola quickly delivered a script to Corman's liking, promising plenty of nudity and gore. Corman gave him the green light. Despite the meager budget, Coppola made the most of his resources, re-purposing both sets and actors from The Young Racers, while employing the sort of creative lighting, camera angles, and storytelling that reveals an early glimpse at the great filmmaking that would follow with such titles as Apocalypse Now and The Godfather trilogy.
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- Sales Rank: 106,796
- UPC: 874757012193
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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