Dementia 13 (1963)
I noticed that there's quite a many Francis Ford Coppola's pictures which I haven't seen yet or seen so long ago I couldn't really remember anything about them. So I decided to start with the first movie Coppola ever made. Louise's husband suffers a fatal heart attack while they are on a midnight boat ride. But Louise has another problem in addition to the body in her hands, she can't get a penny of the big family inheritance if his husband is dead and the lady with all the money is alive. So she convinces the family that her husband had to go on a business trip while she travels to Ireland to see how she could help the early demise of the lady with all the money. Soon however an axe murderer is lose in the Irish mansion and someone seems to have plans of their own to cut down the possible persons in the line of the inheritance. This is actually an early slasher film, but it's not just axe murders and people running scared around the mansion. It's also a proper psychological thriller that's even quite scary at parts. Sure some of the scenes were almost direct ripoffs from Hitchcock, but still Coppola manages to get his own touch in there as well. The low budget and the extremely tight shooting schedule shows quite badly as there are tons of mistakes and a fair share of not that good acting. This is a very good effort as a first movie and was well worth watching despite its flaws.
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