Dementia / Daughter of Horror (DVD)

Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Fantasy / Theatrical Release: 1955 / Director: John Parker / Actors: Adrienne ... more

Dementia / Daughter of Horror (DVD) ... Barrett, Angelo Rossitto, Lucille Howland, Gayne Sullivan, Ben Roseman ... / DVD released 2000-10-17 at Kino / Features of the DVD: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC

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... of Music'. The haunting orchestral music was written by George Antheil, noted 20th century avant-garde composer. The acting is more like that of mime than that of a typical 'silent' movie - exaggerated and dance-like. A very, very strange film. Made in 1955, this movie met with a baffled reception by filmgoers and gained little box office return - in fact, it was only able to obtain very limited distribution and was even banned in New York for three years, not shown there until 1958. To try to make it more palatabl...more

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	Dementia/Daughter of Horror [DVD] [1955][Region 1] [US Import] [N ... Release Date: 2000 - 10 - 17, Last Update 15.12.2009 06:06	£ 12.18

Dementia/Daughter of Horror [DVD] [1955][Region 1] [US Import] [N ...
Release Date: 2000 - 10 - 17,

Last Update 15.12.2009 06:06

£ 12.18

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Dementia / Daughter of Horror (DVD): A Daughter of Horror Hits Skid Row (film only) (1057 words)
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Starring: Adrienne Barrett as The Gamine Bruno VeSota as Rich Man Ben Roseman as Gamine's Father / Plainclothes Cop Richard Barron as Evil One 'Dementia' is probably one of the very weirdest films you'll ever see. Although usually classified as 'Horror', it really is a one-off that defies categorisation. This 1955 production is a very dark, very surreal, very odd and somewhat disturbing film that, if there was a category called 'Nightmare', it would probably be the one this film comes under. It has far more in common with 1920s German Expressionism and the Surrealist movement, than any modern definition of a horror ... Read the complete review

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