Daughter of Horror

The narrator tells the audience they are "... secure because you are sane. Do you know what madness is or how it strikes? Have you seen the demons that surge through the corridors of the crazed mind? Do you know that in the world of the insane you will find a kind of truth more terrifying than fiction, a truth that will shock you? Come with me into the... half-lit night of the insane... Let me take you into the mind of a woman who is mad... no hope in the pulsing throbbing world of the insane mind, where only nightmares are real..." (0:01)

The woman encounters a group of people in her apartment house. Another woman shows a policeman bruises apparently inflicted by the man standing next to her. (0:07)

The woman walks through a graveyard where she sees the graves of her parents. (0:17)

Her father beats the woman. (0:19)

After watching her father murder her mother, the woman kills her father. (0:22)

Narrator, referring to the woman: "Mad with guilt... the body of your latest victim, and around it the ghouls of insanity... behind you the policeman with the face of your father..." (0:34)

Narrator: "Yes, you are safe in another hallucination of your crazed mind, safe, in a drugged dream..." (0:40)

Narrator: "Only a dream, a dream of madness on a dark night -- or was it?" (0:53)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?

Reference in The Blob