Category: schlock horror

  • ‘Dementia’: A Feverish, Tortured Night on Skid Row

    ‘Dementia’: A Feverish, Tortured Night on Skid Row

    Adrienne Barrett, ‘Dementia’ (1955). “Dementia” (1955) has many of film noir’s hallmarks: a dingy hotel room with a well-worn electric sign outside that nervously flashes off and on, shady characters prowling skid row’s streets and a posh-looking fat man who glides around town in the back seat of his limo. And of course tobacco smoke, deep,…