Completely skewed. It may be laughable but it is also unsettling. Nothing in it quite fits together. The characters' motivations are difficult to discern bridging gaps across logic and into grey areas. The protagonist is thoroughly unlikeable and never learns from his actions...ever. It is like the director had his own personal vision to make this film with soft core sex scenes added later... as an afterthought? To sell the flick? To fill up running time (even though there were many large leaps of explanation in the movie that could have filled that task)? Also the inserted sex scenes have the lead man looking totally different with monstrous chops to be almost unrecognizable at first- maybe they take place in an unexplained parallel earth. It has Herschell Gordon Lewis' involvement tho there is no gore, it doesn't need it, it is still completely lurid. Colour schemes involve bright lemon yellows mismatched with wood panel browns. This movie feels like real life as seedy and with repeat watchings may still be a puzzle. Brilliant! Much like real life it is not for most people.
Review of The Psychic
