tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post5320311647544825219..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: "The Half-Lit Night of the Insane" DEMENTIA: DAUGHTER OF HORRORErich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-27098595503355850692022-10-13T18:05:44.676-05:002022-10-13T18:05:44.676-05:00This movie is way better than Ed Wood. I've w...This movie is way better than Ed Wood. I've watched Ed Wood, and this film, while not a classic by any means and at least 15 minutes too long, is way, way better than Ed Wood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-62271592430352877892016-07-11T03:50:52.490-05:002016-07-11T03:50:52.490-05:00Just watched the non-narrated version, I liked it ...Just watched the non-narrated version, I liked it a lot that way MadeleineSwannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06477307302608800889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-9092476549396488012015-11-01T20:00:47.768-05:002015-11-01T20:00:47.768-05:00Ed McMahon IS the narrator. In the old days we alw...Ed McMahon IS the narrator. In the old days we always wondered -- the Ed McMahon, Johnny's tippled sidekick ho turned up at 1:00 am in infomercials to tell us a big check was arriving for us from Publisher's Clearing House. Then one night in the 80s, my head exploded watching The Tonight Show as Carnac the Magnificent dared to ask the sidekick about Daughter of Horror, and McMahon admitted openly if sheephishly that, yes indeedy, t'was he! Matt Paintinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15519792002579580571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-62618889363437848372011-11-16T20:23:42.707-05:002011-11-16T20:23:42.707-05:00Here's a link to a version sans voiceover. Yay...Here's a link to a version sans voiceover. Yay!!<br /><br />http://filmsandallthat.blogspot.com/2010/08/dementia-1955-aka-daughter-of-horror.html<br /><br />EnjoyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-61275002882972266492010-05-25T22:54:33.564-05:002010-05-25T22:54:33.564-05:00But of course there's a direct link to Ed Wood...But of course there's a direct link to Ed Wood here: cinematographer William C. Thompson. His ethereal style did a lot for both DOH and Wood's films.Jim T.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-58282187720941906702009-08-14T19:16:52.551-05:002009-08-14T19:16:52.551-05:00Thank you for this post!
I can't learn enough...Thank you for this post!<br /><br />I can't learn enough about poverty row in Hollywood!<br /><br />Here's a music video that appropriates parts of this film.<br /><br />Let Andy Manilow know what ya think!<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSdP84NHz4Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771208072183069556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-16718947395189696372009-07-10T13:36:58.830-05:002009-07-10T13:36:58.830-05:00Great post and incredible movie.
Bye
A Spanish Ed ...Great post and incredible movie.<br />Bye<br />A Spanish Ed Wood fanCrowleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931654716042914730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-41078207800822795512009-07-09T14:24:40.256-05:002009-07-09T14:24:40.256-05:00Yes, "Blast" not "Crash," damm...Yes, "Blast" not "Crash," dammit.C. Jerry Kutnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901663264449536920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-90706366631064488012009-07-09T14:16:33.515-05:002009-07-09T14:16:33.515-05:00Maya Deren! Why didn't I think of that? And of...Maya Deren! Why didn't I think of that? And of course early Curtis Harrington, like NIGHT TIDE...<br /><br />Thanks for tip, CJ, I will check out Blast of Silence.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-85309497164178483712009-07-09T13:32:59.178-05:002009-07-09T13:32:59.178-05:00I love this film - to me it's a lot closer to ...I love this film - to me it's a lot closer to Maya Deren or early Curtis Harrington than to Ed Wood.<br /><br />I prefer the tighter narrated version - never had any doubt that McMahon was the narrator.<br /><br />For another similar exercise in independent silent noir filmmaking tied together by narrative voiceover, see CRASH OF SILENCE (released by Criterion, no less) which does for New York was DAUGHTER OF HORROR does for L.A.C. Jerry Kutnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901663264449536920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-22207625211349391062009-07-09T13:02:12.227-05:002009-07-09T13:02:12.227-05:00I once wrote something to the effect that if Maya ...I once wrote something to the effect that if Maya Deren had ever worked for Sam Arkoff, <i>this</i> would be close to what she'd come up with.Uncle Gustavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08501032829800803300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-31754114863132030742009-07-09T10:51:20.762-05:002009-07-09T10:51:20.762-05:00Thanks Mykal, the Kino disc is definitely worth g...Thanks Mykal, the Kino disc is definitely worth getting, but you may want to check out the link at the bottom first, to make sure you dig it. The pace is more Jess Franco than Ed Wood, and has been known to cause napping and/or fistfights. <br /><br />And Ed, you are right. I forgot to name check David Lynch, and Salvador Dali/Luis Bunuel for that matter, which even shares some of the same dismembered symbolism.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-63239741854811225692009-07-09T10:01:52.595-05:002009-07-09T10:01:52.595-05:00Erich: I'm in. I'm going to get this film....Erich: I'm in. I'm going to get this film. Great post. -- MykalMykal Bantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12148489896145024134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-19711274556231349882009-07-09T09:46:01.092-05:002009-07-09T09:46:01.092-05:00In either version, this is a truly bizarre and uns...In either version, this is a truly bizarre and unsettling film -- forget Ed Wood, it channels David Lynch a good 20+ years before Lynch. It's hard to imagine what it'd be like going to the theater expecting the usual B-grade horror schlock and getting... <i>this</i> instead, this queasy, outlandish concoction, a loose stream of unconsciousness chain of strange, violent events. As Pauline Kael might've said, it's great trash.Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.com