Writing credits : Stephen Vincent Benet (screenplay)
Format:
Black & White
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 up in a cold sweat in her cheap hotel room. The dregs of her nightmare convey that she
is being overwhelmed by a sense of impending doom. And indeed, Doom is constantly whispering in her ear - and ours - in the ominous Narrator’s voice (Ed McMahon) . A
fluttering newspaper announces that a serial murderer is on the prowl. As she aimlessly walks the benighted streets she is picked up by a cheap solicitor of women who
passes her on to the Lecher (Richard Barron) while an ever-vigilant detective - a look-alike of her murdered father (Ben Rosenman) looks on without comment.
Daughter of Horror,1955 Classic Vintage Horror DVD
