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Thriller psychologique sur un romancier télékinésique qui provoque des catastrophes par une simple pensée.Thriller psychologique sur un romancier télékinésique qui provoque des catastrophes par une simple pensée.Thriller psychologique sur un romancier télékinésique qui provoque des catastrophes par une simple pensée.
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- AnecdotesJack Gold did not want Richard Burton and instead suggested Nicol Williamson for the lead role. The producers told him it would be easier to get funding with Burton, who had just made his "comeback" movie Equus (1977).
- GaffesAs Inspector Brunel watches the TV news, a close-up of the screen reveals that the caption saying "Minster Cathedral" is actually applied to the TV screen rather than forming part of the TV picture. The letters cast shadows on the glass.
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John Morlar: [voiceover] I am the man with the power to create catastrophe.
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Don't you just hate it when you think of a review title only to find that somebody has beaten you to it!!?? So "I have a gift for disaster" was to be my first choice.
Anyway the late, great Richard Burton is sat at home watching the TV when a visitor calls by and bashes him over the head. The police are called for an apparent murder but turns out that he's not dead. Taken to hospital he remains in a comatose state apart from his brain which is driving the attached monitor nuts! Burton plays a writer with telekinetic powers, he discovers these when a boy and uses them to kill his nanny, then his parents. Much of the film has him telling his life story in a series of flash backs, I liked this part of the plot a lot. As a middle aged man he has now set his sights on the mass destruction of innocents. Can he be stopped?
These type of movies were popular around this time, titles such as Carrie, Patrick, Psychic Killer and The Fury spring to mind, even The Omen, and The Medusa Touch is a good addition. I can remember watching this on TV at least twice when I was a kid and several decades later I came across a nice print being screened on a British TV channel that specialises in older movies. It was great to revisit it. Burton was without question one of the finest actors to come out of the UK and I really enjoyed his performance here, but I thought the rest of the cast that includes many familiar faces to be good also. The movie does build to a gripping finale, this film is horror, thriller and disaster all rolled into one.
- Stevieboy666
- 25 nov. 2020
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- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Medusa Touch
- Lieux de tournage
- Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Minster Cathedral, London)
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- Durée1 heure 49 minutes
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- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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