Halloween Post-Mortem: “Dementia” (aka “Daughter of Horror”)
Yes, that’s the Preston Sturges! This year, I revisited Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Trilogy , Boris Karloff’s “The Mummy”, and a grossly overlooked gem, the latter of which needs to be seen. “Dementia” has been on my mind. Not the real dementia, though I’m familiar with it, nor Coppola’s “Dementia 13”. No, I’ve been turning over a film also known as “Daughter of Horror.” Also known as… If a case could be made that David Lynch was actually born a couple of decades earlier and made an unreleasable movie in the fifties, this is it, and I’d be prone to believe that. Recently, the film popped up on my radar since it’s undergone a remastering and if I recall correctly, will stream in its renewed form next year. My understanding is that it was remastered a couple of years back by BFI, and while it was an upgrade, inadvertent cuts were made (to the credits, I think, but also to the soundtrack). This is a shame because the only version I’ve been able to find is in its incarnation as “Daugh...