Dementia 13 (1963) Review

Interest:4/10

Acting: 8/10

Storyline: 5/10

Disturbing 6/10

Fights Guns or otherwise: 6/10

Excitement: 5/10

horror: 2/10

Nudity: 0/10

References to castles: 10/10

Logic: 7.5/10

Be Forewarned: This movie is open domain and can be seen pretty much anywhere and was made before color for movies was a thing, so if you watch it, try not to hold that against this film.

Summary: Woman wants to marry man, man dies, can’t get moms money lies and others start to die because of the lie, also dead sister has powers to murder folks.

Interest: It is an old movie, to me, unless they did something incredibly innovative with camera work or has great acting in it (which still holds true today.) but this is pretty cut and dry, and while still easy to understand, isn’t presented in such a way to make you want to indulge in its story and quirks.

Acting: For older acting, it is fairly high up there to me. I see glimpses into newer acting methods, and still the kind of rigidity from the older actors. It all seems fairly well put together and the characters all have their own personalities and wants needs. But it didn’t suck me in and hold me tight, but that may be because of the storyline and logic.

Storyline: Not to spoil things but a character dies pretty much the beginning of the movie, because he has heart problems and forgot his pills to save him, or had ran out (not really explained which it is) and the woman he’s with throws him overboard, which is silly, people die while dating or doing normal things, no reason to bury him at sea. And the rest of the movies just doesn’t entirely click, and while without that vital first scene the rest of this would be moot, it just seems like such a strange thing to do that even me ( One who loves MST3K and The Room) this didn’t really make sense in the least bit. Now with everything else, it seems to be alright, and the rest of it moderately concrete in what it is doing and how it is done.

Disturbing: So a dead sister seems to have otherworldly powers, and toys and dolls seem to come to life on there own, and in an older film no less, so it is a little disturbing and unsettling. It does add to an eerie atmosphere with the creepy music playing.

Fights Guns or Otherwise: This film for an older film is fairly violent. Gun shots and murder pretty much everywhere. It’s fairly out of the blue of the older pictures (Movies for you youngins) but it isn’t anything like saw or some slasher flick, it’s modest in the violence, but it isn’t today's violence. I like the change. And as in older films, there are verbal razors being flung at each other left and right to level things out.

Excitement: This is was a slow movie, now older movies again as I’ve said can be slow and not be as grabbing to an audience without the most utmost attention. That can be hard with cellphones, laptops and anything else you might be doing. It would make a good background noise or even a radio listening, but the movie isn’t fantastic.

Horror: It’s not very scary at all. I’d almost say it isn’t scary besides some classical horror music (Dunn Dunn DUNNNNNN) and some creeping happens, but nothing horrifying.

Nudity: None, zilch, nada. So yeah, If you’re into movies for nudies for some strange reason, this isn’t going to be a good one for you.

References to Castles: Alright so since they live in a castle, its pretty much every 5 or ten minutes you hear about the castle. That is averaged out though, in the beginning it’s referenced regularly, and then later it pretty much drops to zero.

Logic: The beginning is the real rough patch, it suddenly sets up the plot in 5-10 minutes flat, and while movies do it now, it’s not so jarring. It just seems like something that was shown early seemed to of needed an extra 5 or 10 minutes to unravel fully. Everything else seems to make some sense, but it was so abrupt that I couldn’t mark the category any higher.

So all in all was it worth a watch? Personally not really, I had to re-watch pieces parts several times because I got distracted several times because it didn’t really grab me. It wanted to tell a story, and it did, but it couldn’t understand timing, like a real bad comedian. It scored a 53.5/100. It was just entertaining enough to get by, but not entertaining enough to want to hit play again.