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Dementia

Year:

1955

Duration:

56 min | USA:61 min

Genres:

Film-Noir | Horror | Mystery

IMDB rate:

6.9

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1955-12-22

Filming Locations: Windward Avenue, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Angelo Rossitto

Adrienne Barrett

The Gamin

Bruno VeSota

Rich Man (as Bruno Ve Sota)

Ben Roseman

Law Enforcer / Father

Richard Barron

Evil One

Ed Hinkle

Butler (as Edward Hinkle)

Lucille Rowland

Mother (as Lucille Howland)

Jebbie VeSota

Flower Girl (as Jebbie Ve Sota)

Faith Parker

Nightclub Dancer

Gayne Sullivan

Wino

Shorty Rogers

Himself (as Shorty Rogers and His Giants)

Shelley Berman

Stoned Beatnik (uncredited)

Jonathan Haze

Character (uncredited)

Ed McMahon

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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Trivia

The flower girl was played by Jebbie VeSota. She was married to Bruno VeSota who played the "rich man" and was also the associate producer of this film.

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The film was denied an exhibition seal by the New York censor board in 1953 but was finally passed with cuts and released in New York in late 1955.

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This film received scant distribution. It became well known when footage from it was used in the theatre sequence of the highly popular release The Blob (1958).

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Quotes

Narrator: Yes... I am here, the demon who possesses your soul. Wait a bit. I'm coming for you, I have so much to show you!

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Narrator: Only a dream, a dream of madness and of darkness. Or was it? Was it *only* a dream?

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Narrator: Now all the images of horror, the demons of your mind, crowd in on you to destroy you!

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