DEMENTIA 13, the first film from Francis Ford Coppola and a low-budget job he did for producer Roger Corman.
It's one of those early-'60s nursery-rhyme-and-child-trauma-drowning things you just can't look from, shuddery and bottomlessly macabre... Although also kind of bad and mostly stupid.
And why, if they all live in an Irish castle, does the matriarch appear to be Italian (the actress, Ethne Dunne, actually is Irish, but comes off more like Mama Pasta) and everybody else sound American? Only the grounds-keeper, the doctor, and the swampy poacher seem to actually be Irish. But not the family who lives in the castle.
It's a long way to Tipperary. Or, in this case, to THE GODFATHER.
But it's worth a peek.
It's one of those early-'60s nursery-rhyme-and-child-trauma-drowning things you just can't look from, shuddery and bottomlessly macabre... Although also kind of bad and mostly stupid.
And why, if they all live in an Irish castle, does the matriarch appear to be Italian (the actress, Ethne Dunne, actually is Irish, but comes off more like Mama Pasta) and everybody else sound American? Only the grounds-keeper, the doctor, and the swampy poacher seem to actually be Irish. But not the family who lives in the castle.
It's a long way to Tipperary. Or, in this case, to THE GODFATHER.
But it's worth a peek.