A notorious yet overwrought Exorcist clone starring Barbara Hershey from 1982. One night while at home w/her kids, Hershey is sexually assaulted in her bedroom but no corporeal figure is present as her eldest son rushes into the room. At first dismissing the encounter as possibly a product of her mind, Hershey tries to endure but as the narrative continues & no conventional suspects appear she ends up under the care of a psychiatrist, Ron Silver, who insists the attacks (which Hershey's bruises says otherwise) are self inflicted. The only people who do believe Hershey's claims are parapsychologists which sets up the last third where they hope to catch the assailant w/liquid nitrogen in a giant warehouse which ends up leaving more questions then answers. Supposedly based on real events (if the end credit crawl carries any weight) but handled w/bargain basement effects (some done by Stan Winston) & a film score which sometimes is scarier (by its sheer volume) than the invisible rapist, we get the best movie we can expect from the man who brought us Iron Eagle & Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Also starring Alex Rocco (Moe Green from The Godfather) as Hershey's traveling boyfriend & George Coe (who I remember from Remo Williams) as one of Hershey's many doctors.
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