Oct 19 2008
DEMENTIA 13
See what happens when you don’t change your will?
THE PLOT
Louise and her husband John are out on a boat in the middle of a lake when he has a sudden heart attack and dies. Knowing that her mother-in-law will die soon and that she won’t get a penny if her husband is dead, Louise pretends he’s still alive and heads off to the family estate where she meets his brother Richard. The family had lost a daughter years before and people seem almost afraid of mentioning her name. Louise continues to get closer to the family, but fears what might happen if she uncovers the true secret about what happened to the daughter.
FUN TRIVIA
This film uses a lot of the same sets and actors as the Roger Corman film The Young Racers, which was shooting at the same time because Francis Ford Coppula was working on that film while directing this one.
THOUGHTS/OPINIONS
This was the first time I ever saw this movie and I’m not sure why I even bothered. There was something about the movie that I didn’t like, something that made me want to just turn it off and forget about it. It may have been the very poor transfer of the copy I saw, which made some things a little hard to see. Whatever it was though, I don’t think I’ll be watching it again.
Get a better copy, because this is a pretty good thriller.
Carl
It wasn’t that I hated it (not really anyway), but after hearing SO much about it, I think I was expecting more.