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Dementia (1955)

Posted By: Someonelse
Date: 13 Feb 2011 07:13:43
Dementia (1955)

Dementia + Daughter of Horror (1955 and 1957)
DVD5 | Region free | NTSC 4:3 (720 x 480) | 01:52:35 | 3,81 Gb
Dementia - No dialogue | Daughter of Horror - AC3 @ 192 Kbps
Genre: Film Noir, Mystery, Horror, Hidden Gem | USA

A young woman wakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. We follow her through the skid-row night and encounters with an abusive husband; a wino; a pimp and the rich man he panders for; a flashback to her traumatic childhood; violence; pursuit through dark streets; dementia…

The Gamin (Adrienne Barrett) wakens on a dark night in a city of the Damned. Dressed like a beat chick from pre- rock'n roll days (except for an attention-getting medallion), she takes a switchblade from her dresser and starts out on the town. She witnesses an arrest for wife-beating, sees some winos and is accosted by a midget newsboy (Angelo Rossito) who hawks a paper with a prophetic headline about a murder. A pimp finally gets the Gamin's attention and sets her up with a porcine Rich Man (Bruno ve Sota) in a chaufeurred black car. He takes her to a series of nightclubs, and then to his highrise apartment in a building with an enormous staircase. There she watches him eat a greasy meal of chicken. When he makes advances, the Gamin defends herself … or is she attacking? This is no ordinary night, for from this moment on events and perceptions no longer have even the pretense of reality … as the Gamin enters a nightmare of murder and mutilation.

Untouched Kino release of Dementia, a 50's era B-grade spiral into madness double-billing with Daughter of Horror.
Dementia was banned in the UK and was kept out of stateside theatres for three years by the New York Board of Censorship.
Exploitation Productions Inc. picked it up, slapped on a voiceover courtesy of Ed McMahon, and re-released it as Daughter of Horror.
It is most likely best known for being the film on screen in The Blob (1958).

IMDB

Finally after a long wait we can see the original version of "Dementia" which was re released two years later as "Daughter of Horror" , cut by two minutes and featured the notoriously bad voice over by the unknown (outside america) Ed McMahon , which was added as the re releasers thought that the public would not understand what was going on , it did the opposite and has unfairly given the film a bad reputation. Since the re release was shown , the film itself has pretty much disappeared and only terrible prints on the 1957 version have been available , giving a brief glimpse of what this film could have been. But now the full version has been released by Kino Films on DVD. The print is stunning (compared to the previously available anything would be preferable), and the restoration of the nightmarish "jazzey" score is fault less. "Dementia" and "Daughter of Horror" (it was given a more salatious title to get audiences in) are both on the disc…with some great extras its worth a look. The story itself is a living/dreaming nightmare , the boundaries are jarred from the first scene as we pan in from the empty street into the apartment window and track up to the bed. The Gammin wakes and looks as if she has just had a bad nightmare , she gets up and walks over to a drawer , opens it and pulls out a switchblade , she looks down and sneers , pockets the knife and goes out into the night. From here on we either know that she it totally insane or that she is out to protect herself or both. We follow her journey into bars and meetings with pimps and flower sellers. I wont tell you anymore about it , otherwise it will spoil the fun of finding out for yourself but this film is a must and belongs on any serious collectors shelf.
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