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Dementia 13. 1963. DVD.

4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
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Genre Kids & Family
Format PAL
Contributor Roger Corman., William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee,, Francis Ford Coppola.
Runtime 1 hour and 15 minutes
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Dementia 13 - When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.5 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 15 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 14, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee,
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Roger Corman.
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01E9J64RU
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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USERREDBLACKGREEN
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Classic Horror Flick
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2022
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I could see playing this at a classic horror night at a theater or Drive in... very creepy and a great first film for Francis Coppola. The settings, cast and story had a very artsy twist to it that remains individual, unique and compelling... with no give away until the end.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Great Film, but Not for 3D
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2021
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Thankfully this DVD includes both the regular and 3D version of an otherwise EXCELLENT movie. If you've seen the Godfather series that's enough to be able to tell this is Coppola. Great movie, but they hadn't perfected the 3D technology yet... Not very 3D really, more just disorienting. (Think Friday the 13th part 3, only worse.) Never having seen it before this I'd say I broke even on my gamble.
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Eric Huffstutler
4.0 out of 5 stars In Search of the Perfect Dementia
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2009
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This is for the elusive Roan (Troma) DVD of "Dementia 13" (1963) issued in 2001. The movie itself has fallen into public domain years ago and was said by the producer Roger Corman, that the original elements have been lost. This is not the case but there was bad blood between Corman and Francis Ford Coppola (director) producing this movie that he may have simply swept it under the rug leaving us with a generally shared master that over the years has been well worn. There are tell-tale signs that one original print master was used and others made from it hinted by damages in the same exact spots.

The Roan version is said to be "The Best" out there but it is far from perfect. The compression level is better than all others with blacks being solid. The audio level is low and there is a lot of "screen door" veil over the lighter solid areas. This is the Holy Grail of Roan DVDs and fetches high prices. It has the odd and rare movie trailer along with a couple of lame extras and a so-so commentary. Supposed to be widescreen, you hardly notice due to the odd ratio (supposed to be 1:66 but closer to 1:50). Another version put out by the now defunct Diamond Entertainment is identical but shows some compression yet acceptable unless you view it on a 1080p HD set. Even the Treeline version that comes in the 50-Movie packs (now Mill Creek) has a very good transfer considering but again minor compression artifacting (even viewed in HD). These two can be great alternate choices over the hard to find Roan and a LOT cheaper. Only hardcore buffs should invest in the Roan version.

By chance an eBay seller had one at a descent non-gouging price so I landed on it quickly to add to my collection. It will be my #1 copy right now until an official release (if ever) comes from MGM and you can throw away all the others not mentioned above. I have compared at least 8 different versions and the above three are the best out of the bunch!

Too bad that Roan has gotten out of the 'B' horror movie business restoring the lesser known and nearly forgotten public domain titles from decades past. Many were top notch but again, Roan's "Dementia 13" does fall a bit short which may be one reason it was short lived and now scarce?

Eric S. Huffstutler
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2014 UPDATE --- Now that 5-years have past Roan and many of the "Public Domain" DVD distributors have went under years ago due to flooding the market with multiple copies, there was one final release in 2011 to now reign top. It is a BluRay-DVD Combo and is the best quality version out there by a company called HD Cinema Classics who may now also be out of business?
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Bart Laube
5.0 out of 5 stars still don’t know why it is called “Dementia 13”
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018
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this is a definate movie worth watching, with some loose ends .
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ANTON PHIBES
5.0 out of 5 stars get all blu ray classic sci-fi and horror movies before corps start phazing dvds and blu rays out in the near future .
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2015
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get all blu ray classic sci-fi and horror movies before corps start phazing dvds and blu rays out in the near future .
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Jobla
1.0 out of 5 stars 2019 DVD-R of DEMENTIA 13 is poor quality
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019
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This new (2019) release of DEMENTIA 13 is poor quality. It is a DVD-R (manufactured on demand) rather than a pressed DVD. The mastering has portions of video artifacts, as though it was poory transferred from a PAL source. The disc is packaged with a plain white cover with just the film title, no artwork.

Given the ridiculous price of 18 dollars and change, this product is a sure thing to be avoided. Stick with the existing Blu-ray releases of this title..
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Dianne Hebert
5.0 out of 5 stars I love old psychological horror movies
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015
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I love old psychological horror movies. This one was great, recommended to me by my son, the horror movie buff.
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Happy Grandpappy
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Anaglyph!
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013
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I kept it because it was too inexpensive to bother with sending it back. The movie is both in 3D and 2D. I have no complaints with the movie itself but I am disappointed that it was sold as anaglyphic but is not. When the package was opened the enclosed leaflet stated that a 3D, I believe you call them shutter system was needed and available for purchase. I tried to watch it with my anaglyph (red/blue lens) glasses, just in case but the leaflet was inserted into the wrong product but no, it was not.

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Nachtschatten
3.0 out of 5 stars Coppola entre dans l'histoire du cinéma
Reviewed in France on January 24, 2021
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Premier véritable film de Francis Ford Coppola au sein de l'écurie Corman, Dementia (13) souffre d'une conception parfois aléatoire et tendue. Pourtant, cette toute petite production en noir et blanc mérite d'être vue, ne serait-ce que pour les capacités de metteur en scène dont fait preuve Coppola.
Ce dernier avait déjà tourné quelques scènes pour des séries Z de Roger Corman (pensons à L'Halluciné), mais Dementia 13 permet à Coppola de révéler un vrai sens de la réalisation et de la narration, en dépit de défauts de jeunesse et d'un scénario plus que bancal, sans compter la réutilisation des acteurs et de certains lieux de tournage de The Young Racers.

Dementia 13 constitue donc une petite surprise pour l'amateur de cinéma de genre.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Erbschleicher und Axtmörder
Reviewed in Germany on May 21, 2016
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Francis Ford Coppolas erster Spielfilm "Dementia 13" wurde 1963 von Roger Cormans innovativer Billigfilmschmiede produziert und agiert deutlich im Fahrwasser des Hitchcock-Klassikers "Psycho", der 3 Jahre vorher ein riesiger Kinoerfolg war. Dies wird einerseits an der gruseligen Atmosphäre des Schwarz-Weiß Films sichtbar, ausserdem ist ein psychopathischer Killer unterwegs und dann verabschiedet sich auch nach einer guten halben Stunde überraschend eine der Hauptfiguren des Films. Am Anfang steht eine unheimliche Sequenz einer nächtlichen Bootsfahrt.

John Haloran (Peter Read), der Ehemann der schönen Louise (Luana Anders) erliegt in seinem Ruderboot mitten auf dem See einem Herzinfarkt. Dies geschieht während einer hitzigen Diskussion zwischen den beiden Eheleuten, als es darum geht, dass die schwerreiche Mutter von John (Eithne Dunne) ihr gesamtes Vermögen caritativen Zwecken zukommen lassen will. Louise wollte, dass John da interveniert und bezeichnet Lady Haloran als nicht mehr zurechnungsfähig. Doch nun sind die Karten neu gemischt: Beim Tod von John hat Louise gar keine Chancen mehr an den ihr zustehenden Teil des Vermögens zu kommen, da das Verhältnis zwischen den beiden Frauen nie zum Besten stand und Johns Mutter ihr immer misstraute. Was tun ? Louise fasst den Entschluß, den Leichnam über Bord zu werfen und lässt seinen Tod wie ein eiliges Verschwinden aussehen, um sich anschließend alleine bei der Familie ihr Erbteil zu sichern. Dazu reist sie nach Irland zum Familiensitz der Halorans. Einmal im Jahr trifft sich dort die Familie vor dem Grab der verstorbenen Schwester Kathleen. Die Tochter ist im Schloßteich ertrunken, diesen Schicksalsschlag konnte lady Haloran nie überwinden. Mittlerweile sind auch Johns Brüder Richard (William Campbell) und Billy (Bart Patton) eingetroffen. Richard, der älteste wird begleitet von seiner Freundin Kane (Mary Mitchel). Ausserdem ist auch der Arzt der Familie Dr. Justin Caleb (Patrick Magee) ständig anwesend. Louises perfider Plan: Sie will Lady Haloran durch "Geister" in den Selbstmord treiben. Doch auf dem Anwesen geht auch ein böser Mann mit Axt um...

Interessant ist der Mix aus klassischem Psychothriller und Schauerfilm, der ständig das Interesse des Zuschauers aufrecht erhält. Mit einem vergleichsweise sehr magerem Budget von 30.000 Dollar aus der Tasche von Corman, gelang es Coppola einen stimmungsvollen Genrebeitrag zu gestalten. Durch den Axtmörder kann man "Dementia 13" sogar als Vorstufe zu den Slasherfilmen ansehen. Natürlich kommen Erinnerung an "Psycho" auf und kann man bald erahnen, wer hinter der fiesen Maske des Axtmörders steckt. Wobei: So sicher sollte man sich nie sein. Denn "Dementia 13" gefällt auch durch seine überraschenden Wendungen. Und die Familie sowie derern Freunde sind alle irgendwie undurchsichtig und man kann sich gut vorstellen, dass da alle ihre dunklen Ecken haben. Der Axtmörder verrichtet sein Werk recht brutal und lässt auch gerne mal in Großaufnahme einen Kopf rollen oder schleift eine blutüberströmte Leiche durchs Gras. Sicherlich ist das mit dem Härtegrad späterer Genreexzesse der späten 70s und frühen 80s nicht vergleichbar, aber Gänsehautpotenzial hat sie trotzdem. Schöne morbide Bilder vom Schloß mit gelungenen Requisiten (Puppen, ein trommelndes Äffchen) runden den Gruselspass gut ab.
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D. Stewart
1.0 out of 5 stars I'm not one to demand pristine quality from relatively rare films like "Invitation", but I ended up tossing my copy ...
Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2014
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My one-star review here is based on the technical quality of this DVD edition of Dementia 13/Invitation to Hell, rather than the films themselves. The sound in "Invitation" was completely unintelligible. Honestly, I'm not one to demand pristine quality from relatively rare films like "Invitation", but I ended up tossing my copy in the trash after skipping through the movie to see if there was any audio improvement. There wasn't.
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Final Girl.
2.0 out of 5 stars This version is cut.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2021
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Okay so this movie gets by because of the director and has somewhat built up a reputation for this reason alone and although it’s not exactly edge of your seat stuff it still has something positive to offer. A great setting and some fair performances help it through and to be honest I’ve seen a hell of a lot worse. The creepy scenes regarding the “Kathleen “ doll have something of a dream like quality to them and add this to the slasher murders then all is well and good. The major problem I have with this version is that the so called “Director’s Cut “ is it’s exactly that, it’s CUT.! I noticed to my dismay that the poacher scene is completely missing from this version and in all honesty I was quite disappointed that this one has been marketed in quite a misleading way. I have think cutting the blu ray of this movie is absolutely absurd and cheats fans like myself into thinking that this is the defining version when actually it feels like a total rip off. So I have kept the nice packaging that this came in and replaced the blu ray with the uncut version that I already had in order to salvage something out of it. If I want to watch cut movies then I will jump into a time machine and transport myself back to 80s and in this day and age it’s absolutely ridiculous that the creators of this version think that they can make up my mind for me. A good effort of a kind of ghost story with slasher murders added to the mix and all in all I’m happy to have this one in my collection. Be warned though because to reiterate that this “Director’s Cut “ means what it says. It’s CUT.
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guy v.
2.0 out of 5 stars le 3e film réalisé par Francis Ford Coppola
Reviewed in France on November 25, 2020
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Ce film de 75 minutes au budget plus que serré a été réalisé en 1963 par Francis Ford Coppola (lequel signait alors simplement Francis Coppola). Le producteur en est Roger Corman lequel autorisa Francis Ford Coppola alors réalisateur de seconde équipe sur The Young Racers à utiliser les mêmes décors, l'équipe ainsi que les acteurs dont 2 Américains (Luana Anders et William Campbell) et 1 britannique Patrick Magee pour Dementia 13, tant qu'il parvenait à respecter le film qu'ils étaient en train de tourner.
Le film a été tourné en Irlande et devait s'intituler simplement Dementia. Le chiffre 13 fût ajouté lorsqu'on s'aperçut qu'il existait déjà un film intitulé Dementia réalisé en 1955.
Certains décors ont été créés par Eleanor Coppola l'épouse du réalisateur.
Le manque de budget, l'improvisation, les dissentions entre Corman et Coppola et le temps très court pour la réalisation font de Dementia 13 un film bancal et c'est d'autant plus dommage que l'histoire est intéressante et qu'on sent déjà la patte d'un futur grand réalisateur. Côté distribution seul Patrick Magee tire son épingle du jeu dans le rôle du médecin enquêteur.
Enfin la copie proposée est médiocre tant au niveau de l'image que du son.
Dommage!
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