Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Borgarkeri
A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
Beulah Bram
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Hollywoodshack
I can say this is scary and suspenseful in its own slow moving way. But too many points in the plot just don't make any sense. Louise pretends her husband didn't die and was thrown to the bottom of the pond just to claim an inheritance from her mother in law, but she is very much alive and not planning to check out soon. Louise also swims and dives in the pond at night with some dolls to leave where Kathleen drowned, but why? The family doctor gets suspicious and drains the pond to see if Kathleen really drowned there. But only the shrine is discovered. Kathleen's body isn't there, but why didn't they find Louise's husband John? It's too bad we don't have message boards to get answers about parts of weird movies like these that don't make sense. The real killer is given away with hints, but finding out is a surprise. I would have thought revealing Louise's husband as the murderer would be more scary and surprising. Maybe he didn't really die or his ghost came back. But that might have been one of the ideas people could be bluffed into thinking to watch the whole movie until the end.
GeoPierpont
Not sure why the lead main female characters looked almost exactly alike with hair and facial features. Gratuitous flesh and gore and the most annoying score to further make me finely tuned to the time left remaining on the screen. Was very excited to see such a famous directors first efforts like I experienced with Scorcese's "Who's That Knocking...", whose glorious effort had many themes and not trying to outdo a home movie effect.This trash was just some compendium of shlock and how he graduated to Godfather status is beyond me. I even hate to think he was responsible for the drivel dialogue and confusing cuts.High recommend for Coppola at 22 and who cares what the budget was, remember "Blair Witch Project"? Beyond amateur boogey man.
Jimmy L.
A shoestring-budget horror flick from a very young Francis Ford Coppola, DEMENTIA 13 (1963) is actually a very effective chiller. The writing is lacking and the cast is largely unknown, but there's some eerie atmospheric stuff and some nice shocks. The mysterious axe murderer is handled well, playing up the suspense, and the black & white cinematography really suits the grisly shots. The plot (involving a troubled family, a dead sister, a will, a scheming wife, a pond...) is a bit difficult to follow, particularly when characters have similar "looks". It all dovetails into a psycho-killer whodunnit.DEMENTIA 13 is no film masterpiece, but it's unnerving on a dark and stormy night.
kai ringler
I never heard of this movie before, it was in my box I bought at wal mart bout a year ago,, yea finally sitting down to watch em all i'm at like number 50 out of 100. so this movie was pretty darn good, I love the plot line, from the very beginning scene till the end you really don't have a clue who done it,, you know why but not who, obviously it's for the money of course, where's there's a will there's relatives,, I just loved the opening scene , where the wife throws her husband off of the boat after he has a heart attack, he conveniently leaves his pill bottle empty has a heart attack, so you know what the manipulative money grubber woman does,, throws her poor hubby overboard,, goes back to the hotel room and types a note to mother from her dearly departed husband,, now that's conniving and creepy.
