{"id":34902,"date":"2015-10-05T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34902"},"modified":"2021-01-24T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:26:27","slug":"dementia-13-haunted-and-the-hunted-the-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34902","title":{"rendered":"Dementia 13 \/ Haunted and the Hunted, The (1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Castle Haloran is a bit perplexing &#8212; a very strange place, really, old and musty; the kind of place you&#8217;d expect a ghost to like to wander around in.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Poster-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Poster-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Poster-82x128.jpg 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Poster-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Poster.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA woman (Luana Anders) whose husband (Peter Read) dies from a sudden heart attack dumps his body in a lake and attends a gathering at the castle-home of his mother (Ethne Dunn), who has been in continuous mourning since the drowning death of her young daughter Kathleen (Barbara Dowling) years earlier. Anders soon learns that Read&#8217;s brother Billy (Bart Patton) is equally haunted by Kathleen&#8217;s death but his brother Richard (William Campbell) &#8212; a temperamental artist &#8212; would prefer to bury the incident and simply marry his lovely American fiancee (Mary Mitchel). Meanwhile, the family&#8217;s longtime doctor (Patrick Magee) hopes to resolve Dunn&#8217;s perpetual angst by getting to the bottom of Kathleen&#8217;s tragic death.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis Ford Coppola Films<\/li>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Inheritance<\/li>\n<li>Murder Mystery<\/li>\n<li>Old Dark House<\/li>\n<li>Roger Corman Films<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis reasonably effective low-budget serial killer flick is primarily notable as the first &#8220;mainstream picture&#8221; directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who &#8220;was working as Roger Corman&#8217;s soundman in Ireland during filming of <em>The Young Racers<\/em> when he wrote this horror script in three nights&#8221;, &#8220;got Corman to match his $20,000 investment, borrowed the stars from Corman&#8217;s film&#8221;, and used &#8220;a Dublin castle and estate as his main setting&#8221;. Peary writes that he finds &#8220;the story hopelessly confusing&#8221;, but I must say I disagree: in typical whodunit fashion, there are plenty of red herrings and mysterious passages throughout the film, but they all clearly build towards a &#8220;big reveal&#8221; of how and why Dowling died, and which of the many suspicious characters has turned into a vicious axe murderer in an attempt to hide the truth. Peary does acknowledge that &#8220;the horror sequences are very exciting&#8221;, and that the initial death of a main character &#8220;is [an] extremely well done&#8221;, &#8220;gory, creepy sequence&#8221; that is also &#8220;erotic and poetically filmed.&#8221; He further notes that &#8220;the composition on night shots is extremely impressive&#8221;. It&#8217;s fun to see Coppola&#8217;s explicit narrative nod to <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5177\"><em>Psycho<\/em> (1960)<\/a> as well as other &#8220;Old Dark House&#8221; films. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Peary puzzles over the film&#8217;s odd title, which has since been clarified: an earlier cult film was already named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047976\/\"><em>Dementia<\/em> (1955)<\/a>, so 13 was added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056983\/trivia?item=tr1778915\">&#8220;to get the film played on the 13th of each month&#8221;<\/a> (according to an interview by Coppola with James Lipton).   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fine direction by Coppola<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Direction.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Direction-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Direction-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Direction-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Direction-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Direction.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Cinematography-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Cinematography-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Cinematography-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Cinematography-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Cinematography.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Excellent use of authentic locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Locales.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Locales-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Locales-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Locales-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Locales-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dementia-13-Locales.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ronald Stein&#8217;s score<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as Coppola&#8217;s impressive debut film. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056983\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/horror\/dementia13.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/classic-horror.com\/reviews\/dementia_13_1963\">Classic Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1534&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/film\/dementia-13\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticmoviemusings.com\/2014\/11\/17\/dementia-13-1963\/\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Castle Haloran is a bit perplexing &#8212; a very strange place, really, old and musty; the kind of place you&#8217;d expect a ghost to like to wander around in.&#8221; Synopsis: A woman (Luana Anders) whose husband (Peter Read) dies from a sudden heart attack dumps his body in a lake and attends a gathering at the castle-home of his mother (Ethne Dunn), who has been in continuous mourning since the drowning death of her young daughter Kathleen (Barbara Dowling) years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34902\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34902"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65742,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902\/revisions\/65742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}