Dementia

This extremely obscure, expressionistic horror film stars Adrienne Barrett as a young woman who finds herself propelled through a nightmarish evening. She murders her father, then encounters a mysterious rich man (Bruno Ve Sota) who takes her home to his apartment. She struggles against his advances; he falls from his balcony to the street below. The woman realizes that the dead man has pulled her necklace off in his fall, however, and runs downstairs to wrest it from his grasp. Unable to pull his fingers open, she uses a knife to saw his hand off. Seized with a maniacal giddiness, she runs into a nearby jazz club (with music provided by trumpeter Shorty Rogers and...