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Dementia 13 (1963) | User Rating
(6 votes) | Critic Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 21, 1999
Budget $30,000
Running Time
1 hour, 15 minutes
Country USA
Studio American International Pictures
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Haunted and the Hunted (1963)
• Haunted and the Hunted
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Murder, Suspense, Cult Classic, Serial Killer
Plot: Francis Ford Coppola's directorial debut, produced by horror king Roger Corman, is a terror-filled tale of family ties chopped to pieces. DEMENTIA 13's opening scene of Louise and John Haloran alone on a boat drifting nowhere (as an Elvis Presley song plays hauntingly) is reminiscent of many Hitchcock films. Its 1963 release was just the beginning of what, for Coppola, would be a long career of helming chillingly powerful masterworks such as APOCALYPSE NOW and THE GODFATHER.Set in a spooky Irish castle, DEMENTIA 13 begins as the Haloran family gathers to memorialize the death of the youngest sister, Kathleen. While various family members plot and connive, an ax murderer is terrorizing the grounds, and Kathleen's body shows up at just the wrong time. Slowly, the family members become increasingly suspicious of each other--as well as of the ghosts that haunt the castle. But when the sinister family doctor is called in to help with the mystery, the expertly planned Coppola chills really take
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 After a decent pre-credits sequence this settles down and becomes a leisurely paced flick thats plot gets a tad messy at times but works mostly due to Coppola building a creepy atmosphere at times and sporting a classic horror sounding musical score.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
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| Cast |
William Campbell
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The High and the Mighty, Love Me Tender | | Bart Patton
Strangers When We Meet, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, The Rain People | Mary Mitchel
Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told, Panic in Year Zero! | | | | |
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| Music By |
Ronald Stein
The Terror, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Haunted Palace |
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