From the Actor Also known under the title Dementia, director John Parker's Daughter of Horror, released in 1955, won wide acclaim for its original storyline and exploitation of nightmarish camera angles. The film is entirely without dialogues, the story being masterfully narrated by Ed McMahon (Tonight Show). Parker sticks to no hackneyed formulas of moviemaking in his surrealistic rendition of a young woman driven to madness and serial homicide by her nightmarish past. It marked a new genre of mystery/horror movies that leaves the audience bewildered and terrified because of the quick, ruthless succession of events. The unconventional treatment, employing selective flashbacks to enhance the theme of unfolding madness, is adroitly supplemented by Adrienne Barrett's accomplished depiction of the haunted woman. A2ZCDS brings a fully restored and re-mastered version of this classic, timeless tale of private terror. THE PLOT: Nothing is known of the young woman (Adrienne Barrett) who wakes
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Length: 55:00 Posted: 3/25/2008
