"Now all the images of horror, the demons of your mind, crowd in on you to destroy you."

I have a confession for you mortals.

I am not real.

I am a figment of your collective imagination, a shared nightmare, an occupant of the shadowy corners of your inbred psyches. You made me up, you perverts. You called me up from the darkest recesses of your minds, recesses you don't want to even acknowledge possessing, the recesses into which you pour all your madness and hope it never overflows!

And now I'd like to tell you about a cool movie I saw.

This week's Thursday Thriller is Daughter of Horror.

A lot of mystery surrounds this 1955 John Parker film. For example, not a word of dialogue is spoken throughout. I'm not clear on whether they couldn't afford microphones or the cast had terrible voices.

The only one who gets to do any speaking in the film is the throaty-voiced narrator (Richard Barron) who takes you inside the mind of a deranged woman (Adrienne Barrett). The narration is primarily in the second person, so for the remainder of the film, you are the deranged woman.

You are haunted by a newspaper headline -- "MYSTERIOUS STABBING". Literally the newspaper floats on the wind and follows you through the grimy, neon-lit streets and alleyways populated by pimps, aggressive winos and blackjack-wielding thugs. Most of the men wear fedoras and just about everyone smokes.

Why is the stabbing mysterious? During one of your hallucinations the narrator, Slenderman-looking motherfucker that he is, shows you in the graveyard that you are the perpetrator. You stabbed your abusive father after he shot your mother. Both your parents are murdered and you're still alive. Surely, the police want to talk to you.

As a matter of fact they do. There's a policeman following you around, and he has the same face as your father. Why is that? And why doesn't he just bring you in for questioning as soon as he sees you instead of waiting for you to kill a fat guy then cut off his hand with a bigass switchblade?

My guess is because MADNESS!

The rest of the soundscape is filled in with music -- part traditional film score, part jazz, and part vocals that sound like the lady who sings on the old Star Trek theme.

Daughter of Horror is a hallucinatory noir thriller, heavy on atmosphere. Every scene could be the cover of a pulp magazine. It's very cool. It's very weird. It streams on Amazon Prime and YouTube.