Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

hrkepler 'Dementia' is experimental horror film with elements of film noir and expressionist cinema. Also known as 'Daughter of Horror' but that version includes narration by Ed McMahon. I personally prefer the original one without it as the narration gives the film slightly Ed Wood vibe. Probably because the film balances on the thin edge of good taste/bad taste.Made in 1953 but released in 1955 after going through many cuts to please the censors. 'Dementia' is not classical horror/slasher/exploitation flick, but it is a wonderful nightmarish trip into the paranoid (and perhaps, guilt ridden) mind of a lonely woman (Adrienne Barrett). The film is not meant to be understood wholly (and I don't even try to explain the plot or its possible meanings here as I probably didn't get it myself) - does the heroine wakes up from nightmare or wakes into nightmare. The film definitely has some Freudian undertones with father/law enforcer character. 'Dementia' is rather a mood film than simple storytelling. If one is in the mood to to take a trip into surreal twisted noirish cityscape. The film might look cinematically bit sloppy (probably thanks to the inexperience of director John Parker to whom it seems the only film he directed), but nonetheless it is a demanding and powerful stuff. Unique cinematic experience.The role of a Rich Man was played by Bruno VeSota (he was also one of the producers) who later became regular actor in several Roger Corman productions.

Leofwine_draca DAUGHTER OF HORROR seems to be a cult 1950s low budget thriller held in high regard by other viewers of it, but I'm afraid it's the kind of film that left me cold throughout. I'm not really a huge fan of cult or experimental film-making as so often the directors concentrate on technical qualities and forget to entertain their viewers in the meantime, and that's the case here.The film is about a young woman whose journey takes place over the course of one night. She's assaulted psychologically and physically by various characters including her own family members and various small-time hoods and pimps. Occasionally a disturbing flashback will reveal her state of mind and the reasons for it. There's no dialogue in the film other than the sonorous narrator who constantly tells you what to think and feel, and that's the part that annoyed me the most. The film might have been better off without him. The photography is pretty good and creates a nightmarish atmosphere at times but overall I have to count this as a failure, albeit an interesting one.

Clare Quilty "Dementia"/a.k.a. "Daughter of Horror" is creepy fun. Nothing like you'd expect. It's surreal, like that part of "Glen or Glenda" where a room full of people mock poor Glen and then come at him with their fingers wiggling, only here it's scary instead of funny. The movie has no dialog, and if it did we'd probably die laughing. Marni ("King and I" "My Fair Lady") Nixon does the soprano obbligato throughout. There's an Orson Welles character in it, too. And a sofa with some laughing, half-dressed, blond broad out in a cemetery. Honest, I am not making this up.David Lynch has been borrowing from this one for years and none of us knew.

moonspinner55 John Parker wrote, produced, and directed this ambitious but relatively amateurish paean (one presumes) to silent German Expressionism. Equating madness with evil, Parker follows a disturbed young woman (armed with a switchblade) around Los Angeles at night, where beatniks and goons paw at her while a police detective--who looks just like the woman's dead father--beats a wino to death in front of her. Parker has one interesting shot early on, a double image of a girl running while a wave crashes behind her, which is then repeated at least twice. The filmmaker knows a great deal about visual composition and technique, but he doesn't do anything exciting with the wordless format and he's useless with his actors. In the lead, Adrienne Barrett is frequently exposed to ridicule; looking like one of the Bowery Boys in a skirt, Barrett alternately scowls and smirks in close-up, and is incapable of pulling off such dramatic scenes as crawling across the ground to retrieve her bulky necklace or getting all hot and bothered in an underground jazz club. Alternate version "Daughter of Horror" is narrated by Ed McMahon as Madness incarnate, though the theme of insanity is not treated as a mental illness; instead, it's something a person stumbles into, and then frantically attempts to escape from. Parker even tries for a twist ending, but it's really for naught. "Dementia" is demented in all the wrong ways. *1/2 from ****