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3.0 out of 5 stars
Perverse little flick, July 15, 2002
This review is from: Dementia (DVD)
Dementia is a good name for this movie. But it's worth watching just for Matt Schulze's performance as Sonny, the seriously disturbed husband of one of the two female lead characters. The two females are a mental patient and her nurse. Just when you think that sanity is returning, Sonny shows up again and we discover that these people haven't even scratched the surface of psychosis.
Be warned - this movie is not for the squeamish or the innocent.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dementia--a totally underrated, unique gem of a flick, June 29, 2001
This review is from: Dementia (DVD)
I accidently ordered Dementia (1999), directed by Woody Keith, when indeed I was trying to order Dementia 13, the classic, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. From the cover, it looked like a typical low-budget horror-thriller with a eroticism of a bent nature throughout.
I was blown away. The DVD was in Letter-Box format, Dolby Digital, and the look of the film was anything but low-budget. Picture a clashing of opposites, a bucolic ocean home versus a lock-up psych ward, two women, a servant and an heiress, their mutually misguided attraction--a psychiatric nurse and her patient--whose roles reverse. In fact everything reverses, colors and textures, nothing is as it first appears--and the world is dreamy and surreal. Sex is power, money is sex, greed is rampant and psychotic behavior is normal.
You just don't know what to make of this world that director Woody Keith created. I have never seen characters like this on the screen, or anywhere else--I'm not sure they are real; against the backdrop of beauty and abundance, they represent the dark, the misguided, the lost--now being driven not by reason, but by pure lust for it all, money, sex, and the power of death over life.
The psycho husband of the psych-nurse, Sonny, was my favorite character--played by Matt Schulze, an actor I just saw in the movie, The Fast and the Furious. This guy is scary. With a serpentine allure, his off balance sexuality and surly demeanor ignites the passion of the heiress, and inflames the hatred of of the heiress's caregiver, Luisa. But instead of having that be grounds for the murder of the heiress and the stealing of her fortune, the heiress and the nurse have sex--which then inflames the desire of Sonny for the heiress, with the idea of his wife being the maid! Seriously twisted. Because the psych nurse hides a deep submissiveness and need to be told/ordered/forced to please...and she cannot control her need for sex.
So it's the ultimate psycho-menage a trois movie. It's one of those little sleepers for fans of horror, psychotic/sex thrillers and the like. I recommend it--if anything, it's anti-Hollywood and anti-convention.
After being disappointed buying DVD movies unseen--Hollywood's rejects that didn't make it to the screen--this is a breath of fresh air. One of a kind!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for everyone, May 8, 2007
This review is from: Dementia (DVD)
This film is Matt Schulze's debut and really broke him into film--he's been working steadily since. The only reason Dementia isn't gone from here is because of that.
If you like twisted and strange and extreme, this is for you. Also a strong performance by Patricia Bursiel.
Azura Skye was discovered in this film, turned in a great performance and has since starred in major Hollywood films and Television. That is amazing for a no-name (at the time) indie movie.
If you like rabbits, don't watch the film.
If you are normal, by all means avoid.
Note: this is the official review of Zeph E Daniel, not those below. Check out my profile.
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