Can you believe this movie is Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by Roger Corman? Nether can the viewer. I am not sure how it made it to film. However it has collector value.

Dementia 13 is not a bad movie; it is a little dark in more ways than one. The just is nothing significant about it other than a few hacker scenes.

We find our self in a Castle with a murderer who is bumping every one off. The question is "who done it?"
Was it Lizzie Borden or Charles Dalmer?
Maybe it was mommy?
Or the mad doctor?
Who knows?
This movie makes a good addition to slasher movies and it is not as mindless as most.

We put this mystery thriller on the DVD player, and I noticed it was a Roger Corman film. Well, for B or even C flicks, Corman never disappoints. You can count on lots of cheese, bad acting, dropped story threads, and plenty of girls in see-through negligees, bikinis or even their skivvies if the storyline begins to slacken. But ho! What's this! Written..and directed by Francis Coppola? I LAUGHED MYSELF SILLY for at least a minute and a half. I'm not making this up; Coppola directed and wrote this turkey.

The story centers about a family of Irish noblemen, who unaccountably are educated in the US, have American accents and are engaged or married to a set of exchangable blondes. Mummy, back at Castle Halloran, looks Italian but is not. She is, however, mourning the death of her daughter Kathleen, who drowned in pond. Three guesses who did it. This is the mystery.

John, the fat son married to the bitchy blonde, comes home for the "ceremony"--a sad little mummery commemorating the death of Kathleen. His wife is angling to change Mummy's will (which leaves everything to the Cartholic Church in the name of the dear departed Karthleen) and somehow, John ends not doing too well in wifey's schemes. Don't worry I am giving anything away, as this thread of the story peters out completely midway through the film and is never heard from again.

The other brothers mope at home. Richard, the mad sculptor in metal, only metal, wants to marry the blonde Kane. His other brother is quiet and a homebody. Somehow, despite this being an average quiet castle with only the usual hauntings, a lot of people end up rather dead. Heads roll, and not just at the studio office for making this bomb.

How the film ends and how Coppola rescues his career from this disaster I will leave to you to find out. As I said, it's a mystery.

An all star cast reinforce a beutiful script and of course one of the best directors in the world....A gory but clever grotesque horror/thriller. Not the best movie Ive ever seen but by FAR not the worst.

Louise Haloran (Luana Anders) accompanies her husband John (Peter Read) on a moonlight rowboat ride around the lake. Well, John's heart gives out and he drops dead in the middle of the lake! Devoted wife Louise dumps his carcass overboard and begins scheming immediately how she can worm her way into her mother-in-law's will. Louise pretends that John has gone away on a trip, and shows up at the family castle in Ireland to put her plot into operation. Upon arrival, Louise finds a family in the throes of insanity, as the matriarch, Lady Haloran (Ethne Dunn) has never fully recovered from the drowning death of her young daughter Kathleen. Every year since, the family gathers at Kathleen's grave, and tosses flowers by the tombstone until Lady Haloran collapses to the ground. Louise arrives just in time for the seventh annual observance of this macabre ritual! She realizes that mum is extremely vulnerable, and sets out to gain her confidence. She convinces her that she has heard Kathleen's voice in the castle. Louise places some of Kathleen's dolls at the bottom of the pond (where the drowning occured), weighted down by a wrench. She sees a most terrifying sight down there and re-surfaces, only to be hacked to death by a shadowy figure with an axe! The dolls pop up the next afternoon, sending mother completely over the edge. Her doctor, Dr. Caleb (Patrick Magee) tries to solve the mystery of the dolls, as well as Louise's sudden disappearance. A trespassing rabbit hunter is also dispatched by the axe maniac in grizzly, head-rolling fashion. William Campbell plays Richard Haloran. Bart Patton is his younger brother, Billy. Mary Mitchell is Kane, Richard's bride-to-be, who is the only ray of sunshine in this otherwise dark, gloomy place. Coppola offers some fine direction, and his story is full of nice creepy touches. This film was made for about the cost of the catering service in most modern day productions! It shows again, like in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, CARNIVAL OF SOULS, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, ETC., that money isn't everything in movie-making! Highly recommended...

This movie, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by Roger Corman, features a family who's greedy to get at the fortune of a deranged old woman; who's memories of her dead little girl result in some strange rituals. There's a blonde, one of two, who kills her husband; then, lies to the family, as she angles to get in on the fortune [she doesn't make it]; there's a couple about to get married, one disturbed brother (who turns out is an "ax" murderer). A weird doctor (who may be familiar to anyone who has seen "A Clockwork Orange" [he was the writer who was attacked in his home-Patrick Magee (not Macnee, of the Avengers, no)]. It was a weird, but short movie, 81 mins (which was why it was recorded, on the Alpha Video version I have, at SLP). For 1963, it wasn't bad. And it was a great place to start for Coppola and Corman. The first blond, who gets killed, was Luann Anders; who wasn't bad looking, and I wonder if she ever made any other movies [perhaps, someone reading this could help me out, thanks.] Note: It's Luana, not Luann. It won't let me add a review, so the correction is here.