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Dementia 13
American International Pictures American International Pictures
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Roger Corman Productions
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Dementia 13

Are you afraid of death by drowning? Have you ever attempted suicide? Have you ever thought of committing murder?

1963 • 75 min • ★ 5.5 (198) • Released
Horror Mystery Thriller

A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.

Original title
Dementia 13
Language
EN
Country
IE,US
Budget
$30,000
Revenue
$47,664
Reviews & Ratings 4
J

jigzz

Oct 14, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 10.0

Movie is awesome for it's time. Let me tell you how did I discovered this movie. Today, October 14, 2026, 10 AM, I am reading the book of Bram Stoker title Dracula and I am nearly in completion of it, aroung 80 percent and all of the sudden it came to mind if this book has movie. As per research it has many, and what came up to me was the adaption movie of 1992, Bram Stoker's Draculla by Francis Ford Coppola. And this movie was one of his work filmed in 1963 in Black and White. Story is not perfect but I loved it for I see now that this movie become an inspiration for many films after this. Psycho genre was born my friends! Anyways, I appreciate the movie and write this manually for some bash me saying that my post are AI. Enjoy life for it is too short. Believe in Jesus for He is the only way (sharing the Gospel in my small way). Peace!!! PS. I saw this movie in web Movy.

Dr Nostromo

Dr Nostromo

May 23, 2026 · via TMDB

★ 5.0

47/100 After the death of her husband, a woman tries to con her mother-in-law into believing in the ghost of a young girl who died 7 years ago so that she can work her way into the old ladies will. But something far more sinister is going on. Produced by Roger Corman and Written / Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, this is an interesting thriller, more for it's nostalgic sense than anything else. It's certainly not a mystery as everything plays out exactly as expected. At the time, I would imagine it was considered a rather grisly affair, though. Not bad. -- DrNostromo.com

Wuchak

Wuchak

Mar 5, 2019 · via TMDB

★ 5.0

***Coppola’s version of “Psycho,” sort of*** After the sudden death of her husband, an American woman (Luana Anders) keeps it secret and tries to ingratiate herself to the matriarch at the family’s manor in Ireland in order to extort part of the inheritance. But there’s a dark pall over the family after an accidental drowning seven years earlier, not to mention the specter of a psycho with an axe! William Campbell plays the strange brother and Mary Mitchel his fiancée. Shot in B&W, “Dementia 13” (1963), aka “The Haunted and the Hunted,” was the theatrical debut for writer/director Francis Ford Coppola after producer Roger Corman offered him to do a low-budget imitation of “Psycho” (1960) in Ireland with funds left over from his movie “The Young Racers,” on which Coppola worked as a sound technician. Actually, this wasn’t technically Coppola’s first film as he did eleven days shooting of Corman’s superior “The Terror” in Big Sur, California. The story and setting are very different from “Psycho” and its sister English film “Horror Hotel” (aka “The City of the Dead”), which was produced/released at the same time as “Psycho,” although it wasn’t released in America until two years later. Nevertheless, “Dementia 13” is cut from the same B&W horror cloth and shares an infamous plot twist that originated with those two films. Like “Psycho,” there’s a psycho madman, although he prefers an axe to a butcher knife. Unfortunately, “Dementia 13” isn’t great like “Psycho” or formidable like “Horror Hotel,” mainly because the story is sorta befuddling (like the two bodies of water that aren’t properly differentiated), although most everything’s explained at the end. There’s a good gothic ambiance, but the bewildering storytelling prevents the flick from taking off. And Luana Anders, while okay, is second rate compared to the breathtaking Venetia Stevenson in “Horror Hotel” and Janet Leigh in “Psycho.” Corman wasn’t happy with what Coppola brought home to California. He (rightly) insisted that certain scenes needed simplified and that more violence was necessary, to which Jack Hill was hired to shoot the additional poacher scenes. A useless prologue was also tacked on to beef-up the runtime, which wasn’t featured on the version I watched. If you’re familiar with Coppola’s later work, like “Youth Without Youth” (2007) and “Twixt” (2011), you know that he has the tendency to overcomplicate scripts. That’s the problem with “Dementia 13.” Still, it definitely upped the slasher ante and influenced that particular horror genre. The film runs 1 hour, 15 minutes and was shot in Ireland (Howth Castle, Howth, and Ardmore Studios in Bray). It was remade and improved in color in 2017. GRADE: C

T

talisencrw

Jul 21, 2016 · via TMDB

★ 7.0

This was a tad eccentric but proved to me a very delightfully surreal horror film. In watching this, you immediately get the feeling the director has both interesting, out-of-the-ordinary ideas plus the balls to do things his own way. It's flawed, but definitely shows plenty of directing chops and potential for brilliance, just a few years down the road. A bona-fide, low-budget, American classic.

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Cast 7
William Campbell

William Campbell

Richard Haloran

Luana Anders

Luana Anders

Louise Haloran

Bart Patton

Bart Patton

Billy Haloran

Mary Mitchel

Mary Mitchel

Kane

Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee

Justin Caleb

Eithne Dunne

Eithne Dunne

Lady Haloran

Karl Schanzer

Karl Schanzer

Simon

Crew 9
Eleanor Coppola

Eleanor Coppola

Set Supervisor

Paul Julian

Paul Julian

Title Designer

Jack Hill

Jack Hill

Additional Writing

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Stunts

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Director

Jack Hill

Jack Hill

Second Unit Director

Donald Shebib

Donald Shebib

Assistant Editor

Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Producer

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Writer

Gallery 40
Videos 3
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US Release Dates 7

Aug 7, 1963

Indianapolis, Indiana, premiere

Premiere

Sep 25, 1963

Los Angeles, California

NR Theatrical (Limited)

Oct 23, 1963

New York City, New York

Theatrical (Limited)

Jan 1, 1983

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Jan 1, 1985

Sundance Film Festival

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