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Title: The Medusa Touch (1978)
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Cast
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Lino Ventura | ... |
Brunel
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Assistant Commissioner
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Alan Badel | ... |
Barrister
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Marie-Christine Barrault | ... |
Patricia
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Edward Parrish
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Atropos - Fortune Teller
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Doctor Johnson
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Duff
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Townley - Publisher
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Robert Lang | ... |
Pennington
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Avril Elgar | ... |
Mrs. Pennington
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John Normington | ... |
Schoolmaster
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Robert Flemyng | ... |
Judge McKinley
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Storyline
John Morlar is watching the British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon. Suddenly someone in Morlar's room picks up a figurine and strikes him on the head repeatedly. His blood splatters the television screen. A French police inspector, Brunel, arrives at Morlar's apartment to begin an investigation. At first he thinks Morlar is dead, but soon he hears him breathe. At the hospital, Morlar is hooked up to life support systems, one machine in particular monitors the activity of his battered brain. Brunel discovers that Morlar has been in psychological analysis because of his history of being witness to many disasters, other people's disasters. Dr. Zonfeld, Morlar's analyst, explains that Morlar's delusions had begun when he was a child. He believed that he had caused a hated nanny's death. Morlar's childhood delusions were reinforced at a resort when he overheard his parents discussing him with disapproval. When his... Written by alfiehitchie
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
1978 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
O Toque da Medusa See more »Company Credits
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Trivia
Filmed hurriedly in the early summer of 1977 so Richard Burton could begin filming The Wild Geese in South Africa in the late summer. See more »Goofs
When the 747 explodes after hitting the office block, the ends of the wings can be seen still suspended where the wires failed to detach. See more »Quotes
Doctor Johnson: [sees Brunel] Oh, Inspector Brunel, what a pain in the derrière you'll be.See more »
"The Medusa Touch" is a typical seventies "devil conspiracy" movie like the popular "The Exorcist" and "The Omen" series combined with the typical paranoia and disaster movies between "Earthquake" and "Airport". The late Richard Burton plays an obsessed psychic who tries to convince a psychiatrist (Lee Remick) of his demonic power to kill people and to cause disasters just by the strength of his thoughts. Being a victim of an assassination and a coma patient in a hospital, his mad thoughts are causing even worse attacks on buildings that are causing the death of hundreds of people. French cop Lino Ventura, working as a guest policeman in London, tries to find out the mystery of Burton's dark life.
Although there's not much action, this horror movie is thrilling and dominated by the convincing performances of the actors. There is a sinister atmosphere of terror and paranoia all around, and you expect the unexpected in every single moment. A fine psychological terror movie in typical seventies style that is worth being watched!