Dementia (1955) is an American film directed by John Parker, filmed in a film noir style in 1953 (copyright date on film itself), but not released until 1955.
As the narrator invites us to explore the horrors of an insane mind, a young woman wakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. We follow her through the skid-row night and encounters with an abusive husband; a wino; a pimp and the rich man for whom he panders; a flashback to her traumatic childhood (she killed her father after witnessing him murder her mother); violence; pursuit through dark streets... Again the young woman wakes up. Was it only another nightmare?
The original film was 61 minutes long, with no dialogue, just music and some unsynchronized sound, such as laughing, crying, etc. The cut version of the film, known as Daughter of Horror is 56 minutes long, also with music but no dialogue, but with an added narration read by actor Ed McMahon.
The film is perhaps most famous for its appearance in The Blob (1958), where it is the movie playing in the movie theater when the Blob strikes.
Blue fire
Branding the thoughts
Desire,
Light of the lost.
Unholy dreams,
Demented schemes
Inside the mind
Can't seem to find
The key.
Bloodlust
Inside the heart;
Vicious -
Rip you apart.
Unholy dreams,
Demented schemes
Inside the mind
Can't seem to find
((Adam:) Dementia, you're driving me crazy
(Mark:) This is driving me crazy
(Adam:) Dementia, oh, Dementia)
Every light in the night flickered in and out
Every bone in my back shivered up and down
Keep the pace just in case all the magic dies
Cause this is driving me crazy
Every voice in my head shouted yes and no
Every freight train of thought fought to stop and go
Keep the pace just in case all the magic dies
Cause this is driving me crazy
Big suprise, I'm a ghost keeping out of sight
Love your eyes, you're a star in the summer night
This is love, this is war, it's insanity
Dementia, you're driving me crazy!
(Dementia)
(Dementia, you're driving me crazy)
((Mark:) This is driving me crazy)
Every tear in my eyes dripped and wouldn't drop
Every disc in my spine shook and couldn't stop
Keep the pace just in case all the magic dies
Cause this is driving me crazy
Every hand let me go that I try to hold,
Every warm-hearted love left me freezing cold
Keep the pace just in case all the magic dies
Cause this is driving me crazy
Big suprise, I'm a ghost keeping out of sight
Love your eyes, you're a star in the summer night
This is love, this is war, it's insanity
Dementia, you're driving me crazy!
(Dementia, you're driving me crazy)
(Dementia, you're driving me crazy)
(Mark:) This is driving me crazy
(You're driving me crazy)
Cause this is driving me crazy
(Dementia)
Big suprise, I'm a ghost keeping out of sight
Love your eyes, you're a star in the summer night
This is love, this is war, it's insanity
Dementia, oh dementia
Through the skies, you're en route at the speed of light
So realise this chaos in the air tonight
This is love, this is war, this is pure insanity
Dementia, you're driving me crazy!
(Mark:) This is driving me crazy
Oh dementia, you're driving me crazy
Cause this is driving me crazy
Dementia, you're driving me crazy!
((M:)This is driving me crazy)
(This is driving me crazy)
((M:)This is driving me crazy)
front, front life
life in sedation
no mental addictions
frustrated mind tangled in lies
progress dementia
do follow your instincts,
let others be
guide your own life
through reality
perceive depictions,
why can't you see
blind to real life, can't see
life in sedation
no mental addictions
frustrated mind tangled in lies
progress dementia
fueling the industry
death's futile misery
fueling the industry through
death's futile misery, progress
dementia
for what you see is your life
for what's to be is no life
Resurrection of a horrid dream
Blend of hate and intense desire
Putrify
Vile...surreal
two brains in my head, my mind is out of control
looking for blood, looking for meat
i see your minced body under cover of the night
pale, like the moon above
trembling hands, sweat on my lips
can´t believe it, can´t believe
i´m posessed, posessed
pure water washes the death away
cleans my conscience, my conscience
dawn is coming smashes me to the ground
brings me back, to reality, to reality
demons are exhausted in the glaring light
tiredness grabbs at me embraces me so deep.
it´s a normal day in a normal life until the coming
night
desiccated dreams, created by the devil
my body on a pyre
defaced, past recognition
a sudden fall into an endless hole in front of me
no one´s holding me back, no one´s hearing my scream
the eyes wide opened, there´s nothing to clamp
to stop my fall
harsh taste on my tongue
it strangles my throat, it strangles my throat
now lying here awake
the eyes still closed, it´s time to go
i take my knife beside me
without sense of direction a stumble through the
streets
a vicious circle, no one can escape
i´m a slave of myself, a slave of my psyche
night by night, the bloodthirstiness is unchanged
the ground is coloured in red.
it´s a normal day in a normal life until the coming
Every step in the night
Black hood, evil mind
Opened gates many symbols on the ground
Circle of fire, blood is all around !
Death's smell in the air
Hanging heads on the gates
One by One rising their knifes
Shining, burning keen and proud !
Pieces of flesh... mutilated
Have no rest, have no pain
Opened gates many symbols on the ground
Merciless show... sex with corpses !
Drink the blood, eat the heart
Necromancy - unknown act
Meat of life - water of life
Valuable treasure hidden beneath !
Cut... satbbed in the holy temple !
Kink... stamp on the holy bible
Every step in the night
Black hood, evil mind
Opened gates many symbols on the ground
Circle of fire, blood is all around !
Death's smell in the air
Hanging heads on the gates
One by One rising their knifes
And I awoke in utter horror from the noxious dream
Was it, in fact, a dream?
The vision, the smell, the screams
I can't hear my voice
I can't see myself
Vague emptiness
There is no sound, no sense of touch
Non existence
This room is empty, and all I see is white
No exit... nothing in sight
The jaws of insanity begin to drip
In this labyrinth of non-existence
I feel my mind implode into the void
Reality now recluse, a most impalpable lunacy
Millions of eons shall pass, and then continue tenfold,
And I will still be here
There is no longer death, nor life...
Just existence and dementia
Dementia
Dementia
My essence fades into the white
Ingrained into nothing
I am dementia
I am dementia
Eternal reverie of non-existence
I am time with no end, for no means, but everlasting insanity
Skepsis was the loathsome omen
The deceptive abomination
That ushered this torturous dissolution
Millions of eons shall pass, and then continue tenfold,
And I will still be here
There is no longer death, nor life...
Just existence and dementia
...for centuries
I burnt tongues so ash
Find me! You are not worth to be found! Go!
Confront me bastard whores
With blood I spit through your fractured lung
Face to face - I bash in your head!
I love your blood, dropping on me
Stillborn - burnt by rebirth
Stigmatized and dying by seven arts
Never release my depending doom
I am the descending moon
Confront me, I wait for you!
Severance in darkness - cut out the eyes
Inbreed - lies - deathblow
I execute, you offered me other fantasies!
Stillborn - burnt by rebirth
Stigmatized and dying by seven arts
Never release my depending doom
I am the descending moon
Yeah
I'm so demented, demonic and dependent
I stand ground with my feet, I cement it (Yeah)
My semen is valued by these women,
Who know a birth royalty ends be so endless
Can't forget this (Nah),
Memory tattoos
I really be that dude, I rarely do act rude
But front Imma act cool
Imma just act cool, then I'll find your girl and go and run in the back
Room
Back shots, I give her back shots
It's outta spite so I call it pay back shots
Now take that ma, You know she really bad
I got a blown mind and I aint mad
And I aint even brag, I'm too calm for it
She got a fat ass, I got the --- for it
I got the lap for it, if you got the back for it
Go and make it clap
Ohhh
Now go and encore it
Bravo Bravo
I think I hit the lotto
My pockets on fat, Her panties on groudo(idk how to spell that word)
Haters full throttle, I tell them no hablo
Esco bars, hitting keys like pablo and dime
So young and reckless
So young and reckless
She reads to me by the
soft glow of candlelight,
speaking of angels and demons
Instilled at such an early age,
with such fright, were these divine gifts of reason
I lie awake as her ghost
it still walks through the halls,
and moves all around me,
Echoing warnings
burned into me as a child,
that the sinner will pay with his life...
Sheltered in filth,
the windows they all bleed black,
to hide such dementia
Inside of my mind
or the mind that I seem to lack,
no one pays close attention.
I lie awake and I think of the simpler times,
before insanity found me
With a desire to unearth the dead in the night,
making me feel so alive
And now a part of me feels complete,
when I butcher these bodies
Trophies of skin they fall at my feet,
all decaying and rotting
Sick pleasures fulfilled to me every time,
I bring home a new slave
Mother said lost souls should all be saved,
'cept from a madman and his empty graves...
Screams to me by the top of her lungs in my dreams,
like I'm no more than a devil
As this hatred grows, I sorely feel a need,
that starts here with my shovel
Prying open the lid I can still see her face,
etched in my eyes here forever
I'll take you to my depths, and there I will desecrate,
it's got to be now or be never.
And now a part of me feels complete,
when I butcher these bodies
Trophies of skin they fall at my feet,
all decaying and rotting
Sick pleasures fulfilled to me every time,
I bring home a new slave
Mother said lost souls should all be saved,
'cept from a madman and his empty graves...
It's got to be now, now or never
It's got to be now, now or never
It's got to be now, now or never
Between Heaven and Earth
Stands up mankind little divine
and not sublime enough.
Between the unreal and the
material arises the incarnate man
little iridescent and Hell bends
down the persecuted little
idyllic and to afflicted.
Between the alert and the war
lets himself go the frivolous pioneer
little brave and too imprisoned.
Between Heaven and Lucifer
digs his own grave the stiff
little devote and too grieved.
Between the volcanos and the waters
some burning and drowning truth,
perfidious and so disguised.
The muddy inessential on the
surface of consciousness,
toemented with reminiscence
of a life filled with bitterness.
Kind of dislocated puppet
adapting to hearing whisper,
the harsh scoffing of the imps
there, teeming with our steps.
Dearest Dementia, attracting all
our dull senses, such a foul elixir...
Rather than listening to the extatic
hymm of the lyric nymphs and
seraphins filling our spirit with delight.
Are we the mocked puppets of the evil
ones of this world? Sure, it is easier
to stumble than makind the filth better.
Dare you cut those devilish lianas off!
Let us raise up to the strings of the
divine harp and may you be recked
by the Eden angelical poet...
Enlightened volcanos and water full of
grace, in your mercy, hear my prayer...
Listen to the cold dream of your life...
From the throne of the dark, what a bliss
to exhume the stiff! Carpe noctem!
Between Eden and Hell
raises the persecuted a little
more idyllic and less afflicted.
Halfway materials and unreal
holds up the incarnate man a
little more iridescent and less blind.
Sursum mea terper orbem terrarum.