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Production Year: 1955 - Horror - Director: John Parker - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Adrienne Barrett, Richard Barron, Ed Hinkle, Bruno Ve Sota, Angelo Rossitto, Lucille Howland, Jebbie Ve Sota, Ben Roseman more

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John J. Parker's wonderfully unsettling first film follows a dreamlike twisted logic as it details the existence of a tormented young woman, Gamin, who is clearly insane. Waking...
more...from a night in a cheap hotel, Gamin goes on a hellish journey through skid row, where she experiences many nightmarish encounters with pimps, winos, molesters, and other unsavory characters. Increasingly haunted by remembrances of her tormented childhood, Gamin moves deeper into her dementia as the night wears on, transforming into a knife wielding bohemian who despises men.

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A Daughter of Horror Hits Skid Row
Review of Dementia (DVD) by thereddragon

Advantages: Surreal, weird fantasy; a fascinating one-off
Disadvantages: May be too weird for some

Starring: Adrienne Barrett as The Gamine Bruno VeSota as Rich Man Ben Roseman as Gamine's Father / Plainclothes Cop Richard Barron as Evil One This is one weird film - probably one of the, if not THE, very weirdest you'll ever see. Although classified on Ciao as 'Horror', it really is a one-off that defies categorisation. This 1955 production is a very dark, very surreal, very odd and somewhat disturbing film that, if there was a category called ... Read review

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