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Dementia 13 is a gothic horror-thriller set in the eerie, ancient Haloran castle in rural Ireland, centering on a dysfunctional, wealthy family plagued by the unresolved trauma of a child's death and the machinations of a greedy in-law.  I. The Scheme and the Concealed Death The film opens with Louise Haloran (Luana Anders), a young, highly materialistic woman, on a rowing boat at night with her husband, John Haloran. They are arguing furiously about John's mother's will. John reveals that his mother, Lady Haloran (Eithne Dunne), plans to leave her entire fortune to a charity in the name of her deceased daughter, Kathleen. Crucially, John warns Louise that if he dies before his mother, Louise will be cut out entirely. The stress of the argument immediately triggers a fatal heart attack in John.

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00:00Dementia 13 is a gothic horror thriller set in the eerie, ancient Halloran Castle in rural

00:05Ireland, centering on a dysfunctional, wealthy family plagued by the unresolved trauma of

00:11a child's death and the machinations of a greedy in-law.

00:14The film opens with Louise Halloran, Luana Anders, a young, highly materialistic woman,

00:20on a rowing boat at night with her husband, John Halloran.

00:24They are arguing furiously about John's mother's will.

00:27John reveals that his mother, Lady Halloran , plans to leave her entire fortune

00:32to a charity in the name of her deceased daughter, Kathleen.

00:36Crucially, John warns Louise that if he dies before his mother, Louise will be cut out entirely.

00:42The stress of the argument immediately triggers a fatal heart attack in John.

00:46Seizing a ruthless opportunity, Louise decides to hide her husband's death from his family.

00:52She tips John's body overboard into the dark lake near the family castle and then forges

00:56a letter from John, claiming he has gone on an urgent business trip to New York.

01:01Her plan is to return to the Halloran estate, ingratiate herself with Lady Halloran, and manipulate

01:06the old woman into changing the will to secure the inheritance before John's body is discovered.

01:11Louise arrives at the gloomy, isolated castle, meeting John's two surviving brothers, the

01:16moody sculptor Richard, William Campbell, and the sensitive, ailing Billy, Bart Patton.

01:22Also present is Richard's American fiancé, Cain, Mary Mitchell.

01:27The family gathers annually for a morbid memorial ceremony at the lakeside shrine of Kathleen,

01:32who drowned tragically years earlier at the age of six.

01:36Lady Halloran is emotionally shattered and superstitious, still consumed by the loss of Kathleen.

01:41During the ceremony, she faints. Louise sees this obsession as her opening.

01:46She begins her plot to drive the matriarch into changing the will by convincing her that Kathleen

01:51is attempting to communicate from beyond the grave. Louise investigates Kathleen's untouched room,

01:56finding old toys. She then dives into the lake and plants the toys near Kathleen's submerged shrine,

02:02hoping they will float to the surface and startle Lady Halloran. While underwater, Louise is horrified to glimpse

02:09what appears to be a perfectly preserved ghostly image of Kathleen's corpse. Louise's scheme is

02:15brutally interrupted. As she emerges from the lake, an unknown assailant wearing a menacing hood attacks

02:20her with an axe. Louise is killed in a shocking turn, dispatching the film's central protagonist early

02:27in a move reminiscent of Psycho. Her body is dragged away, and the inheritance plot ends violently.

02:33The mysterious murders continue on the estate. A local poacher named Simon is decapitated by the

02:39axe-wielding killer. Lady Halloran, already in a state of mental distress, is later attacked inside

02:45the castle but manages to escape the assailant before collapsing. The suspicious death of Louise,

02:50along with Lady Halloran's increasingly frantic behavior, draws the attention of the family physician,

02:55Dr. Justin Caleb .

02:58Dr. Caleb begins a discrete investigation, questioning the family and using his psychiatric knowledge.

03:05Following the discovery of the poacher's body and the axe-killer's existence, Dr. Caleb organizes

03:10the draining of the pond, hoping to find a clue. They discover a macabre underwater shrine with a

03:15small tombstone engraved with the cryptic message, Forgive me, Kathleen. Dr. Caleb uses hypnosis on the

03:22nervous, disturbed younger brother, Billy. Under hypnosis, Billy recites a nursery rhyme

03:28he used to sing with Kathleen and reveals that Louise's frozen, axe-hacked body has been hidden

03:33away in a meat locker, next to a wax figure of Kathleen. The police set up a trap using the wax

03:38figure of Kathleen in a public area near the castle grounds, hoping to lure the mad killer out.

03:44The plan works, a gibbering, unhinged Billy Halloran appears, completely overwhelmed by guilt-induced

03:50insanity. The film's climax reveals that years ago, Billy accidentally caused Kathleen's death during a game.

03:58The ensuing guilt has driven him insane, and he has been committing the murders, including Louise's,

04:03in a demented effort to cleanse the family's secret and protect Kathleen's memory.

04:09Billy lunges at Kane with the axe, but Dr. Caleb, who had prepared for the confrontation, intervenes.

04:15Dr. Caleb shoots Billy to death, ending the hallowing curse and the string of murders,

04:20but leaving the family permanently shattered by the violence, the secrets, and the failed scheme for wealth.

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