THE MEDUSA TOUCH (1978) Movie Review

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The Medusa Touch (1978) d. Jack Gold (UK/France) (105 min) (1st viewing)

Novelist Jack Morlar (Richard Burton) has a most peculiar problem. Whenever someone causes him great pain or distress, said person (or persons) meets with a rather untimely end in rather short notice. On the evening that a tragic accident occurs with three astronauts stranded in space, Morlar is bludgeoned to death in his London apartment, launching Inspector-Detective Brunel’s (Lino Ventura) murder investigation into who might have wanted the antic scribbler dead. But things take a decided turn for the bizarre when, after being rushed to hospital and set up on life support, Morlar’s brain shows signs of activity despite the fact that his body appears to be dead. Brunel proceeds to interrogate everyone who had dealings with Morlar, only to find that there aren’t many of them left alive. Only his therapist, Dr. Zonfeld (Lee Remick), seems to have the answers that might unlock what foul and incomplete vengeful deeds the patient might still be struggling to realize….

THEATER OF BLOOD (1973) Movie Review

Theater of Blood (1973) d. Douglas Hickox (UK) (104 min)

In reportedly his personal favorite role over a very long career, Vincent Price has the time of his life as critically-reviled Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who sets out to even the scores with his enemies in the press after being denied the illustrious Critics Circle Award. Interestingly, the film predates the trend of future body-count movies in that it’s less a question as to whether his victims will perish, but rather how they will meet their prescribed demise.

DEMONS OF THE MIND (1972) movie review

Demons of the Mind (1972) d. Sykes, Peter (UK)
As Hammer struggled to keep pace with the times, it conjured this odd little Gothic curiosity piece focused on the twisted goings-on of the Zorn family and their supposedly cursed bloodline. Robert Hardy (best known as the elder vet on All Creatures Great and Small) is the doomed patriarch who keeps his young adult children (Shane Briant, Gillian Hills) secreted away from the world, fearing for their safety...or is it the safety of others he is concerned with?