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night of the living dead/dementia 13
Cult horror at its best
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60's Horror At Its Best
A pair of classic low-budget black & white horror films

Night of the Living Dead / Dementia 13
Starring: George A. Romero , and Francis Ford Coppola
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night of the living dead/dementia 13.......2007-05-13

night of the living dead is a really good zombie movie for people who like that kind of stuff but i didnt like dementia 13

Cult horror at its best.......2006-07-16

Cult horror movies are the like zombies -- they don't die, but stick around. And two excellent ones are in this collection: zombie frightfest "Night of the Living Dead," and Francis Ford Coppola's early "Dementia 13." Not only are the movies excellent, but the transfers are good as well.

"Night of the Living Dead" starts when a crashed satellite starts emitting radiation, which causes the dead to rise out of their graves to devour the living. Barbara (Judith O'Dea) is visiting a grave with her brother -- when suddenly a shambling, dead-faced man murders him, and chases her down the road to a farmhouse.

But she's not alone -- a kindly man named Ben (Duane Jones), a young couple, and a family are also hiding there. The refugees barricade themselves for protection -- but now there are hundreds of zombies closing in. They must fight with fire and their wits... but it may not be enough.

"Dementia 13" is a whole different kind of horror. Louise Haloran's (Luana Anders) unpleasant husband has just died of a heart attack, during a row out on a lake. Because he died before his mother, in-law Louise won't get a penny. So she sinks his body, claims he's in New York, and returns to the ancestral home in Ireland, hoping to get the old lady to adjust the will.

But his family is just as weird as her scheme, with a troubled sculptor, shy type, dead father, and a mother obsessed with her dead child. They presently attending the annual memorial for one of the daughters, who died (ironically) by drowning. But of course, things get spiced up as Louise arrives -- somebody is running around the castle, killing with an axe.

Both movies are excellent examples of their own genre. George A. Romero created the blueprint for zombie movies, while Coppola's first masterpiece is a Poe-esque suspense film. Each is outstanding in its own way, so it's a pleasure to see them together and in good condition.

And both directors do an amazing job. Romero creates a nightmarish, claustrophobic atmosphere in his movie, where no matter where you go, you're trapped -- and the humans might kill you if the zombies don't. The finale is a tragic, but very realistic twist.

Coppola was still a young, raw director when he made "Dementia 13," compared to the more experienced touch he brought to the "Godfather" movies and "Apocalypse Now." But he showed in this movie that he had rare talent -- a Hitchcockesque talent for suspense, and a way with cameras and actors that made everything scarier than before.

Diamond Entertainment did a pretty solid job with both of these films. Usually two films on one disc are of poor quality, but the quality of both these is quite good. There's a lingering dark tint on the left side of "Dementia 13's" print, but it doesn't obscure anything. Otherwise, most of the time it's sharp and clear, as is the sound.

This double-pack not only provides two classic cult movies, but in excellent condition. Definitely one for fans of the dark, unusual and bizarre.

Very good bargain, cool horror flicks........2005-09-14

Surprisingly good quality for the money, glad I made the purchase.

60's Horror At Its Best.......2005-07-28

Two .. great horror movies .. of the 60's .. together .. is grat .. to watch over & over .. on a rainly night .. Goerge Romero's .. "Night of the Living Dead" .. is one .. of the best & still works today & Francis Coppoal .. "Dementia" .. is just as good .. to watch .. So .. go out & buy .. them both .. together & set back & enjoy ..

A pair of classic low-budget black & white horror films.......2005-04-01

This DVD brings together too of the best of the low-budget black & white horror films of the 1960s. I first saw "Night of the Living Dead" when I came home one afternoon and discovered that the Iowa City Public Library Channel on cable was showing the film. I have to admit, I was rather surprised that this cult classic horror film would be on at a time when kids could come home and discover it on television (one of the living dead is naked and they do like to eat human flesh), but Iowa is a state that thinks caucuses are a good way of selecting presidential nominees, so what can I say? But this is a horror movie that is even scary in the daytime with all the lights on.

"The Night of the Living Dead" is a true horror classic, which is rather surprising when you take into account that director George A. Romero made the film in 1968 for $114,000 without a cast of first time actors (extras who playing the zombies were paid $1 and a t-shirt that said "I was a zombie on Night of the Living Dead"). Filmed in black and white with Romero as the cinematographer, this film has a technical proficiency that is missing from other low-budget classics like "Dementia 13" and "Carnival of Souls." You can take or leave the various sequels to this film, but this one has to be on everyone's Top 10 list when it comes to horror films.

The horror comes from the situation and the simple effectiveness of the slow moving, silent zombies in their growing numbers, their arms reaching out to find human flesh to eat. Barbara (Judith O'Dea) runs to an abandoned house, where she is joined by Ben (Duane Jones). After fending off the first attack of the living dead, they discover five more people hiding in the basement: Harry Cooper (Karl Hardman), his wife, Helen (Marilyn Eastman), and their daughter (Kyra Schon), along with a young couple, Tom (Keith Wayne) and Judy (Judith Ridley). Harry wants to hide out in the basement, but refuses to be trapped down there, and the two spend more time arguing about what to do than doing anything. They listen to the radio and watch the TV, learning that the dead are rising to eat the living, and try to figure out a way of getting out of the death trap in which they find themselves. Meanwhile, the little girl in the basement is getting weaker.

The only real weakness in the film is the attempt to explain why the dead are walking around as flesh-eating ghouls (which is, I believe, redundant), which has something to do with a satellite and scientific mumbo-jumbo that really does not mean anything to the people trying to survive against the growing horde of zombies. Fortunately, the "why" does not matter in this story; just the "how" in terms of taking these creatures down. Besides, if anything clinches this one it is the end of the film, both with its final twist, and the use of grainy still photographs to show the end of the tale. Few horror movies, whatever their budgets, have an ending this memorable.

"Dementia 13" was the result of producer Roger Corman's infamous "apprentice" program at AIP. Corman was shooting his own film in 1963 and let Francis Ford Copolla get his first director's credit by shooting "Dementia 13" on the same location (Why "Demenita 13"? Because there was a 1955 entitled "Dementia"). "Dementia 13" is just a nice little low-budget horror film for which the biggest complaint is that the pace is a tad slow. The story is set in Ireland and if it bears a strong resemblance to Corman's film adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, well "duh." When her husband drops dead, Louise Haloran (Luana Anders) know she will be cut out of the Haloran family inheritance so she pretends he is in New York on business and heads off to the ancestral home in Ireland to try and get in good with the family. But at Castle Haloran the family is engaged in a morbid ritual marking the death of John's sister Kathleen, who drowned in the pond six years earlier. The question of inheritance becomes more interesting once family members start being hacked to death by an ax-murderer.

Despite this development "Dementia 13" ("The Haunted and the Hunted" in the U.K.) is not a gory film, but more of a character study, which alone makes it somewhat atypical for the time and genre. Copolla manages to creat atmosphere so that the film is more of a psychological exercise than it is a splatter flick, and the submereged scream is certainly a memorable touch. The most recognizable faces in the film are Patrick Magee as Dr. Caleb and William Campbell, soon to go to a small measure of fame in a couple of episodes of the original "Star Trek" and a place in Beatles trivia as the man who supposedly had plastic surgery to replace Paul McCartney in the Beatles after his "death" (he was also married to Judith Exner, and anybody who has links to JFK, the Beatles and Star Trek is a pop culture immortal). "Dementia 13" is not a classic horror film and not on the same level of "Night of the Living Dead," but it is above average and makes for a decent pair of such films to put together on one DVD (the only better pairing I have seen would be "Night of the Living Dead" and "Carnival of Souls").

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Dementia 13
Starring: William Campbell , Luana Anders , Bart Patton , Mary Mitchel , and Patrick Magee
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola was working as an assistant to Roger Corman when he made this, his feature debut. The story goes that Corman let Coppola make the film so long as he could work around the shooting schedule of the film they were working on together, and the results are impressive given the budget constraints. Or maybe because of the budget constraints. The story concerns the family at Castle Haloran, the secrets surrounding the death of young Kathleen, and an axe murderer who seems to be picking away at all present. Coppola's deft direction keeps this from being a routine ghost story, using light and dark in his compositions to create tension and suspense. The film has an interesting way of spanning the traditional ghost story and the more modern gore-fests that we're used to. I have one bone to pick with the manufacturer of this disc: the transfer to DVD was made from tape. This is evident from the way the frames roll repeatedly during the last 15 minutes of the film, and the tape bunches a few times leaving video artifacts. DVD consumers want all the benefits of this medium, and not to have the degraded quality of tape preserved on it. If this is the only way you can get this film, at least the price is reasonable. It's also packaged as a Fright Night Horror Classic along with Night of the Living Dead and Revolt of the Zombies. --Jim Gay

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Even great directors have to be born.......2007-06-15

A rather simple and short film by a young director. In black and white of course because it is cheaper, but also because it is very classic in that kind of psychological thriller. Hitchcock did it with Psycho, why not Coppola then? Basically it is the guilt that develops and is cultivated in a family when some unacknowledged, unrecognized and unknown children's game turns sour, that is to say ends up with a dead child. The point is that the situation lacks originality and what's more the cause of the death is even trite, drowning. The most interesting part is the study of the mother as a family tyrant that imposes some kind of eternal remembering of the dead sister. That puts everyone on edge, on the defensive, hence on the side of hiding what should not be hidden because it creates a sick atmosphere that leads everyone to some kind of psychosis if not schizophrenia. Then the film has some shortcomings, such as the inheritance and the mother's will, or whatever that disavows the daughters in law who are treated as so many strangers. Then what is the deal with the first son, the one who has a heart condition? How long can it be hidden that he is not in New York but at the bottom of a lake? But it is worth watching because we can witness the birth of a great film director in these black and white frames.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Creepy Musical Score, that's kinda it..........2006-12-31

Sadly, Demetia 13 is very bland. I'm always up for a classic b/w horror thriller movie, but this just didn't cut it. The music was really good, so I expected a really good movie.

A Movie With No Redeeming Features.......2006-08-21

There are some movies that really are not organically whole. Instead, they are more like messes of discordant elements thrown together into a feature length film that is not a real movie. Invariably, these so-called movies are horrible productions. One such alleged movie is 1963's Dementia 13.

Before going on into the review, its is necessary to lay down the background behind the genesis of this particular flick. Back in the 1960's, there were basically 2 different circuits for movie distribution. The first and most glamorous was the A Theater circuit on which the big budget Hollywood studio productions were circulated. The other, more obscure circuit, was that of the drive-ins and the B Theaters that exhibited low budget productions and flicks of genres (particularly horror and "film noir") that the big studios rarely, if ever, touched. The origins of this dual circuitry date back to the early days of the film industry. With the decline and fall of the drive-ins and, to a great extent, the B Theaters, the only ways that low budget fimmakers can get their movies shown are made for TV movies whether they are for cable TV or direct to the public either on DVD or videotape. Some of these flicks are also shown at film festivals such as Sundance, but that is only a small source of revenue at the moment.

Now, back in 1963 the largest studio catering to the B circuit was American International Pictures (AIP) that employed an ambitious producer named Roger Corman. One of Corman's proteges at the time was a dude by name of Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was both an aspiring screenwriter and also the assistant director on a flick called "The Young Racers." Bored by the work, Coppola quickly wrote up a screenplay and persuaded both Corman and the AIP honchos to put up $22,000 to make Dementia 13 simultaneously with "The Young Racers" using the same sets and cast of the other movie. Thus it was that 2 movies were produced at the same time, which is something that Hollywood rarely does and for good reason as the results are generally poor. The shooting time for Dementia 13 was only 2 weeks which helped to further lessen the film's quality.

This movie has one of the stupidest openings of all time. A man and his wife (Luana Anders) are in a row boat talking about his elderly mother and how the family fortune will be divvied up once mom dies. For some strange reason, he tells his wife that if he dies of heart attack, she will be cut out of the will. In one of those concidences that occur only in movies, in less than a minute he has a heart attack and dies in the boat. His wife then dumps him overboard and goes to the family reunion, which conveniently started the very next day, telling everyone that her husband is on a business trip.

As it turns out, this is a rather strange family. All of the family members are supposed to be Irish and live in Ireland, however no one has even the slightest Irish accent. In fact, none of the other "Irish" characters in the movie have Irish accents either. Everybody in this flick talks like Midwesterners. This raises the question of why have the movie placed in Ireland with allegedly Irish people when nobody speaks like real Irish folk. Why not set the movie in America?

There are some interesting characters in Dementia 13. There is a poacher who the family shelters for some strange reason from the game wardens. The old lady is quite strange and obsessed with the death of her 7-year old daughter many years ago. The scheming, conniving wife of the dead man is also interesting in her own way. There is also an axe murderer.

However, both the setup and these characters are completely wasted on a bad script, poor acting and an awful production. Continuity is totally lacking in this movie. Although the movie supposedly takes place over a weekend family reunion, the hair color/length of the character played by Luana Anders changes repeatedly. In one memorable scene, Anders is sitting at a table talking with other family members. She is first shown in a long sleeved sweater with long platinum blond hair. After the camera pans to one of her in-laws, it pans back to Anders whose hair has suddenly turned browner and is now wearing a sleeveless blouse. Less than a minute later, Anders is back with both super white hair and long sleeves.

One reason why Dementia 13 is such a bad flick is that Coppola's screenplay was only a rough draft when it got the green light. Another is the fact that Corman made heavy use of outtakes from previous films that the actors were in, as well as surplus film from "The Young Racers," which accounts for most of the continuity problems. The whole show reeks of both hasty production work and a poorly thought out script.

Obviously, there is no way that anyone at AIP could possibly have thought that Dementia 13 could have been anything other than a piece of dreck. The fact that they made it under those conditions and, even worse, actually released it, speaks volumes about the level of arrogance that existed in AIP circa 1963 due to the fact that it was top dog in the B-film world. They literally thought that they could make and release any piece of garbage and it would sell. The fact that Dementia 13 turned out to be a profitable endeavor only furthered their increasing lack of commitment to quality.

This development was ruinous in the long run for both AIP and the world of low budget films in general. As time went on and dreck increasingly filled up the drive ins and B-theaters, movie fans abandoned those places. The great majority of these theaters either went out of business or switched over to showing big budget Hollywood productions.

Thus, the true significance of Dementia 13 is not as a movie, but as an event. The financial success of this pathetic production encouraged B-film producers to make and release movies with increasing lack of regard for their level of quality. In the long run, this tendency brought about the near death of what was once a strong and vibrant part of the movie making scene. Today, there is only a small remnant that desperately clings for its very survival in a world where the vast majority of movie reviewers completely ignore their productions and the general public is oblivious to their work.

If A Body Meet A Body: Coppola's Big Screen Debut.......2006-06-28

Seven years ago Kathleen, youngest child and only daughter of Lady Haloran, drowned in a pond on the family estate. On each anniversary of her death, Lady Haloran (Eithne Dunne) demands the return of her three sons for a morbid memorial. This year one of her sons has married, and wife Louise (Luana Anders) is determined to get her hands on the family fortune. When her husband dies of a sudden heart attack, Louise hides his body and designs a plan to worm her way into Lady Haloran's good graces--but the plan uncovers a secret relating to the dead Kathleen, and before you can say Whist, Faith, or Begorrah there is an ax murderer lurking the castle's shadows.

Today DEMENTIA 13 is best recalled as the directorial debut of Francis Ford Coppola, who was then employed as an assistant to producer and director Roger Corman. Corman has been associated with the occasional "quality" film over the years, but then as now he is best recalled for such low-budget flicks as ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, WASP WOMAN, and CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA. While on location with Corman on another film in Ireland, Coppola wrote a script that could be filmed on the same sets and with the same crew and cast--and since the movie would be so cheap it couldn't loose money, Corman said okay.

There are no two ways about it: DEMENTIA 13 was and is a movie designed for an audience of uncritical teenagers and drive-in moviegoers; it is not a lost masterpiece and there is nothing in it to herald Coppola's future fame. Still, and in spite of the fact that it borrows rather liberally from such films as DIABOLIQUE and PSYCHO, the plot does have a certain originality, and even critics of 1963 commented on the film's memorable atmosphere.

1963 audiences screamed over the film's ax attacks; audiences of today, however, are likely to find them thin stuff. All the same, it remains an entertaining film of its type. Assuming, of course, you can actually find a version on DVD or VHS that is actually viewable: the film quality was probably not great to begin with, and I've yet to encounter any reproduction that can be called better than mediocre. But fans of the 1950s and 1960s B flicks will consider it a minor classic of its kind--and every one else will get a kick out of seeing Coppola's first film of note. Worth seeking out.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

a Spine Chilling Moment........2006-06-25

Its starts with John Haloran(Peter Read) and his wife Louise Haloran(Luana Anders) are on a rowboat ride during the night. John Haloran dies from a heart attack. This leaves Louise with a bit of a problem. Louise will not get to inherit any of the Haloran family money if her husband is dead. So she writes a letter from John trying to convince the family that John has been called away on business to New York while she journeys to the home in Ireland, where her plot eventually doesnt go as planned. The story leads to the secrets behind the death of a young girl named Kathleen, a member of the Holoran family, with an axe murderer involved, taking people out one by one.

The film is slightly slow paced but rewards us with the story as it picks up with the first axe murdering scene as he hacks away at the helpless victim that lies below his feet. It isnt exactly a gory bloodshed scene but does give us a great sense of macabre and butchery. You can see the axe hacking away at the victim and the victim struggling while covered in blood but you never see each of them in actual contact.(Looks like a great inspiration from Alfred Hitchcocks 'Psycho'.) Its gives us a great deal of an intense spine chilling moment with the axe murder dragging the body along the field by the hair. The great thing about this is how Coppola captures an example of identifying the personality of the psychopath without even seeing his face.

The story goes further presenting us with a mystery of who is the axe murderer. Each of them lead to different events and clues trying to convince us that everyone is a suspect. But it seems they presented us with one clue to many.

..."a ghostly murder mystery with a chilling twist"... The twist is actually predictable and not actually chilling. But let me remind you this is just the ending. Everything else before this gives us a decent amount of entertainment to keep you watching. And even though it doesnt live up to the standards of Alfred Hitchcocks 'Psycho', Dementia 13 truly has its inspirations. A great deal of it, no doubt.

Horror Classics 4 Pack, Vol. 2: Dementia 13 / Last Man on Earth/House

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Release Date: 2005-11-08

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Horror Classics 4 Pack Vol. 2 - Dementia 13, The House on Haunted Hill, The Last Man on Earth, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

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Even great directors have to be born.......2007-06-15

Creepy Musical Score, that's kinda it..........2006-12-31

Sadly, Demetia 13 is very bland. I'm always up for a classic b/w horror thriller movie, but this just didn't cut it. The music was really good, so I expected a really good movie.

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The Ultimate 3D Horror Collection - Vol 2 , Dementia 13 ,The Little Shop of Horrors, Night of the Living Dead(Includes 3D Viewing System)

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Classic Horror 3 Movies - Rites of Dracula / Dementia 13 / Night of the Living Dead

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Director: Alan Gibson / Francis Ford Coppola / George A. Romero
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This DVD includes 3 Classic Horror Movies: Rites of Dracula (Christpher Lee & Peter Cushing), Dementia 13 (William Campbell), and Night of the Living Dead (Duane Jones &Judith O'Dea).

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John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won't get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran dies if John is dead. Louise forges a letter from John to convince the rest of his family he's been called to New York on important business, and goes to his Irish ancestral home, Castle Haloran, to meet the family and look for a way to ensure a cut of the loot. Six years earlier John's sister Kathleen was drowned in the pond, and the Halorans enact a morbid ritual in remembrance. Secrets shroud the sister's demise, and soon the family and guests begin experiencing an attrition problem.

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Even great directors have to be born.......2007-06-15

Creepy Musical Score, that's kinda it..........2006-12-31

Sadly, Demetia 13 is very bland. I'm always up for a classic b/w horror thriller movie, but this just didn't cut it. The music was really good, so I expected a really good movie.

A Movie With No Redeeming Features.......2006-08-21

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The Wasp Woman/The Indestructible Man/The Ape/Dementia 13

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THERE ARE BETTER BUT NOT FOR THE MONEY.......2007-04-14

This is a Platinum Disc that has 4 movies on one side. What is surprising here is that compression is extremely good for such a crowded early issue disc. All of these movies have fallen into public domain and there are tons from various distributors on the market but these 4 have decent transfers including one of the best for "Dementia 13". There was a release by Roan for Dementia 13 long out of print and extremely hard to find but wasn't one of their best efforts or transfer. It is unknown if the original elements still exist or if MGM who holds the rights, will ever have an official release for this and the other titles here? But in the mean time, pick up this collection especially if you are into drive-in or Chiller Theater 'B' movies!

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Dementia 13 / Invitation To Hell
Starring: Dementia 13 , and Invitation to Hell
Manufacturer: Miracle Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0006V76ZA
Release Date: 2005-10-25

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Psycho killer, run run run run run run run away
A wonderfully creepy thriller from a young F. Coppola
A slasher with gusto

Dementia 13 (Digitally Remastered)

Manufacturer: Digiview Productions
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Each year, a dysfunctional woman, Lady Haloran (Ethne Dunn) calls her family together, to mourn over the death of her younger daughter Kathleen, who drowned in a lake seven years earlier. Meanwhile this morbid ceremonial becomes problamatic when a stranger begins hacking family members one by one with an axe. Follow this horror thriller as all clues begin to lead them to Kathleen's watery grave. Which one is the killer?

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Psycho killer, run run run run run run run away.......2006-08-17

There are two powerful names in the credits. The first name belongs to the director and co-writer, although his wasn't a powerful name when the movie was young. Yes, this is one of Francis Ford Coppola's (credited as Francis Coppola) earliest films, and therefore a lot is expected of it. But the other name is an equal and opposite name. Threatens the credits: "Produced by Roger Corman."

When good reputations go up against bad reputations, who comes out on top? In this case, Corman is the dubious winner, because -- while I thought this film did have its moments -- it's ultimately something of a mess.

The story revolves around a wealthy Irish family. And while the film was actually shot in Ireland, it did so with a predominantly non-Irish cast. None of the main actors attempts an Irish accent, which is probably a good thing based on the effort made by one of the secondary characters.

This family underwent a tragedy six years previous, when the young daughter of the house accidentally drowned in a pond on the estate. Every year, the family gather to remember Kathleen on the anniversary of her death. Despite the fact that her siblings are now grown men (the script states that six years has passed, but the age of the actors would suggest more time), the family can not emotionally move beyond this calamity. And now -- for no real good reason -- a serial killer decides to start picking off anyone who happens to be in the area.

DEMENTIA 13 is actually two different styles of horror movie put into the same film. It's attempting a creepy psychological edge while simultaneously putting itself forward as a slasher film. Personally, I thought it failed at both.

Usually films will kill off the boring, secondary characters first, leaving behind a smaller group of more interesting, more rounded people. Unfortunately, this serial killer has the bad habit of killing (or incapacitating) the more developed characters early on, leaving behind bland, faceless plot ciphers. In fact, you could say that the slasher portion of the film is actively at war with the psychological part, because every time the plot starts to take an interesting twist, the psycho killer shows up to kill off the responsible character.

And the slasher portions of the film don't work because they go on forever and contain absolutely no tension. The scene of the poacher being stalked made me wonder if the poor man was going to die of old age before the crazed murderer would finally make his move.

Most of the movie's flaws stem from the script. Characters have plans that are simultaneously too simplistic and overly convoluted. The resolution to the story's main mystery is so obvious that until it's finally revealed, one can't help but imagine that the twist will be that the obvious villain is actually innocent.

The direction has its good and bad moments. Some of the underwater sequences are particularly effective, and do a good job of establishing Kathleen's death place as an area of eeriness and supernatural evil.

On the other hand, there's a lot of sloppiness in the direction as well. Take what is now my favorite movie continuity error of all time. A character strips off before diving into the aforementioned pond. No glance is spared at the sight of her giant 1960s-style underpants. After filling the screen with this light-colored pair of panties (which are large enough to crush a major metropolis, if dropped without caution), the director has this young lady jump into the pond. Upon which, her unmentionables have instantly changed color and become dark black. You may think that I'm unfairly picking nits, but this is a typical (if extreme) example of the types of oversights on display all over the place.

As for the actors, I jumped up and down when I realized that one of the brothers was played by William Campbell who I immediately recognized from his role as the squire of Gothos on the original Star Trek series (I'm a nerd). Also, Patrick Magee is here, giving a more subdued performance here as the family doctor than he did in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

The picture and sound quality on this Digiview Productions disc is adequate, if not especially good. However, I get the impression that even in the best of circumstances, the film would look somewhat murky anyway.

Maybe if Coppola had stuck to just the psychological thriller aspects of this story, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. There does seem to be a lot of potential. I liked the idea of this family eternally stuck in emotional limbo after a tragedy. I liked the weight of the mother's grief crushing all those around her. But by the end, all the good stuff has been thrown away and we're left with an easy-to-guess serial murder mystery. Oh, and I don't know what the 13 in the title refers to, and by looking around the Internet, I don't think anyone else does either.

A wonderfully creepy thriller from a young F. Coppola.......2005-05-22

Francis Ford Coppola and Roger Corman are two names I would never have thought of putting together, but linked they are in the production of the highly enjoyable thriller Dementia 13. I was quite amazed to discover that Coppola got his start as an assistant to Corman, and this film, Coppola's directorial debut (the first he acknowledges, anyway), was actually filmed on the same set of the contemporary Corman production of The Terror. This really is Coppola's twenty thousand dollar baby, as he wrote as well as directed the film. I for one found it quite good. Although the killer is not that hard to identify, there were enough suspicions cast upon one or two other characters to keep me from putting all of my accusatory eggs in one basket before the climactic ending. There are also some twists and turns along the way that I didn't really see coming, and I was forced to change my whole outlook midway through the drama. Dementia 13 is not really scary or gruesome, but it does succeed in producing something akin to chills on one or two occasions. The murder weapon of choice is an axe, but the wielder of that axe is in no way very proficient; he can only succeed by hacking away maniacally until such time as he actually makes contact with the victim's body. He does have a natural talent for lifting a dead body by the hair and dragging it along behind him, though, which is always a plus on a mad killer's resume.

At the heart of this story is the tragic death of a little girl named Kathleen. Each year on the anniversary of her death, the grieving mother and her sons reenact the funeral service, which culminates in the mother's collapse. This particular year, two unwelcome guests reside in the family's ancient Irish castle, the greedy wife of the eldest son (who is unable to be there for reasons made quite obvious at the beginning of the movie) and the fiancé of another son. As individuals begin to mysteriously disappear from the castle grounds, almost everyone in the family becomes a potential suspect. The family doctor is yet another person to keep your eye on, as his behavior is questionable and suspicious at times. The deceased child Kathleen does haunt the family in a sense, and her appearance to an individual marks that person for certain axe-related death. I found this movie more and more compelling at it went along, and I quite enjoyed trying to figure out exactly who the killer actually was. The pace of the story was aided greatly by very effective background music, and Coppola definitely displayed the type of talent that would blossom into directorial greatness in his later career. If you enjoy a good who-dunnit movie, you will almost certainly get a big kick out of Dementia 13.

A slasher with gusto.......2005-03-13

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 Charles 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.

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