Dementia (1955)

Dementia ​(also known in a slightly altered version as ​Daughter of Horror​) is an American film by John Parker, incorporating elements of the horror film, film noir and expressionism film.

​Plot
A younng woman awakens from a nightmare in a run down hotel. She leaves the lodging and wanders into the night. She encounters a dwarf hawking newspapers with the bold headline "Mysterious stabbing." She smiles enigmatically and quickly walks on. In a dark alley, a wino approaches and grabs her. A policeman rescues her and beats up the drunken man as she leaves. Along her way, a pimp, sharply dressed with a pencil-thin mustache, approaches her and cajoles her into escorting a porcine rich man in a chauffeured limousine. As they cruise the through the night, she thinks back to her tragic youth and her abusive father. She had stabbed him to death with a switchblade after he shot and killed her unfalithful mother.

​Cast

 * Adrienne Barrett as The Gamin
 * Bruno VeSota as Rich Man
 * Ben Roseman as Law Enforcer / Father
 * Richard Baron as Evil One
 * Ed Hinkle as Butler (as Edward Hinkle)
 * Lucille Rowland as Mother (as Lucille Howland)
 * Jabbie VeSota as Flower Girl (as Jebbie VeSota)
 * Fath Parker as Nightclub Dancer
 * Gayne Sullivan as Wino
 * Shorty Rogers as Shorty Rogers (as Shorty Rogers and His Giants)

​Production
Dementia​ was shot in the studio in Hollywood and on location in Venice, California. Production, including editing, ended in 1953.

​Legacy
Dementia ​is perhaps most famous for its appearance in The Blob ​(1958), where it is the movie palying in the movie theater when the Blob strikes.

The film has been compared to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ​(1920) as being a portait of an insane mind from the "inside out".

In 2015 the rock band Faith No More used edited footage from Dementia ​to create to create a video for their song "Separation Anxiety."