Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Rainey Dawn This one isn't a bad film but I really was expecting to like it a lot more than I actually do - it's okay.The film tries to show a guilty conscious after doing some bad things - murdering! I do believe that a guilty conscious would produce nightmares and maybe even some hallucinations, those that do not feel guilt for their crimes could never experience this.It's kinda a throwback to the era of Silent Films... but with a narrator and a few sounds like laughter, crying - that sorta thing. The film does have the 1950's beatnik vibes to it, which I like. But overall I found the film rather droll and sometimes drab.4/10

lemon_magic "Dementia" is a hopelessly flawed and cheesy movie that hasn't aged well at all, but it is also an interesting and ambitious experiment in film noir and impressionism and fantasy...and I liked it.Oddly, the film it reminded me most of was "Hands Of A Stranger" - partially because it seemed to be the anti-matter opposite of that screen play (in which people NEVER STOP TALKING FOR AN INSTANT), but also because the art direction and set design constantly get in the way of what little plot there is and draw way too much attention to themselves.I saw the "silent" version of this film without the narration, and I will admit that the dialog and narration aren't needed - so heavy handed and symbol-laden are the visuals (and the soundtrack) that words aren't needed to know what's going on. And Marni Nixon's delicate wordless warbling in the background adds enough emotion to the proceedings to keep you from getting itchy for a human voice to add some concrete grounding to the proceedings.I don't know if it's fair to judge the "Acting" in the movie - all the characters are basic caricatures of certain states of mind and certain stereotypes (pimp, fat guy, cop, father, evil guy, "jazz musician (??)" and no one really has to "act" - all the actors just project at the camera. "Gamin" manages to hold center stage though all this, and she does fine for what the role requires.I wouldn't say you owe it to yourself to see this or anything - but if you enjoy the fringes of cinema and oddities of pop culture, you might get a bang out of "Dementia".

sol ***SPOILERS*** Interesting movie about madness and murder that took some two years to be released here in the USA because of the graphic, which was trimmed down, violence in it.Gamine, Adrienne Barrett, has been suffering guilt feeling since both her parents Mom & Pop, Lucille Rowland & Ben Roseman, died tragically when she was a little girl. Mom was murdered by pop when she refused to have sex with him and in return Pop ended up getting stabbed to death with a stiletto in the back by Gamine in revenge. Now grown all up and psychotic Gamine has a habit of getting herself picked up by strangers in the street who end up getting murdered by her.One of those pick-up involved an over-sized Orson Wells look-alike called the Rich Man played by Bruno VeSota who takes her out to a number of jazzy night spots to while the night away. It's at the Rich Man's hotel suite that after stuffing his face with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken that he tries to make a inappropriate move on Gamine who ends up stabbing him in his gut with her stiletto. Falling down what looks like a 10 story building the Rich Man had grabbed, before her fell,Gamine's pendant that in fact can lead to her arrest! It's then that the film gets a bit surreal with Gamine going down to the street where the Rich Man's body is lying and in front of some dozen witnesses cuts his hand off that's griping, in a death grip, her pendant!You know something isn't quite right when the cop in charge of the Rich Man's murder investigation turns out to be Gamine's pop whom she killed about a dozen years ago! We all get to see what Gamine did when this guy with a black sock covering his head called the "Evil One", Richard Bannron, comes out of the local cemetery an shows Gamine as well as us in the audience in a flashback of what both she and Pop, in her killing him and him killing his wife, did!***SPOILERS**** On the run from the police lead by the resurrected from the dead Pop Gamine ends up in this really cool jazz club filled with a bunch of groovy people and featuring the famous band of Stony Rogers and his Giants. It's also at the club that Gamine runs into the Pimp who set her up with the Rich Man whom she later murdered and is now wanted by the police for it! The movie ends in a haze with Gamine back in her shoddy and cheap hotel room feeling that all that happened to her in the movie was just a bad dream. ****SPOILER ALERT*** It's then where Gamine is brought back to reality in finding the Rich Man's severed hand griping her pendant in the top drawl of her clothes cabinet!

MartinHafer The movie is about a day in the life of a woman who is going insane. To show that she is mentally ill, she overacts a lot and the narrator tells us she's "going mad". Along the way, she goes out with a fat guy who looks like he could be Orson Welles' brother and he later takes a header off a building in one of the only interesting moments in the movie.This is a strange little film that is very cheaply made--and it sure shows. The film was shot without sound (probably using 8mm or some other cheap type of film) and had some sound effects and an overbearing narration added later. In fact, the narration was the most obtrusive and unintentionally hilarious I have ever heard and it is said in such a silly and over-the-top manner you'd just have to hear it to believe it. As a result of these cost-cutting actions, it's not surprising that the film is bad, though the idea of trying to make this sort of film was pretty original. Plus, it's VERY hard to make it through the entire film.