One by one members of a special project team are being murdered by means of telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone . Research team discovers one of their members is an evil super-genius with poerful abilities who starts killing the others. The race is to find out which of the remaining team members is the true murderer and how to stop a hostile organization . Biologist Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) is part of a select government research team that includes beautiful geneticist Margery Lansing (Suzanne Pleshette) , among others . Anthropologist Henry Hallson (Arthur O'Connell) discovers what he believes is evidence of a person among them with psychic abilities including telekinesis. There are various suspect people . Who's the killer ? You feel it until you can't feel anything at all! Drives men to madness and murder! When it reaches out for you. You'll never stop screaming! One Man Has It...No Man or Woman Can Resist It. You feel it...and then you can feel nothing else!
Interesting film with plenty of thrills , shocking scenes , suspense , intrigue , plot twists and being slightly entertaining , well-paced with some slow-moving scenes and receives a rather plodding treatment , at times . It contains action enough with formidable special effects and nice make-up . It's all in fun , and entertaining enough. Resulting to be a dazzling , hypnotic entertainment that poses a challenge to its viewers , it was deemed extremely graphic for its time with some eerie scenes at the end . Occasionally confusing but otherwise notable film , portraying a peculiar ring with psychical powers , a clear precedent to ¨David Cronenberg's Scanners¨. Hightlights of the picture are the creepy final confrontation among protagonists and the shocking scene in which a role's heart blows up . Main and support cast are pretty good . Secondary actors formed by a lot of Hollywood familar faces , such as : Richard Carlson , Yvonne De Carlo , Earl Holliman ,Gary Merril , Ken Murray, Barbara Nichols , Arthur O'Connell, Nehemiah Persoff , Aldo Ray, Vaughan Taylor , Miiko Taka and Michael Rennie.
It packs colorful and luminous cinematography in Panavision and Technicolor by cameraman Ellsworth Frederick . Thrilling musical score by Miklós Rózsa , this great composer creates a pounding and astounding score . This well-budgeted motion picture by George Pal was competently directed by Byron Haskin with originality enough , delivering a great sense of wonder and tension . Haskin was a good craftsman who worked in Warner Brothers Special Effects department . He returned to filmmaking , and was responsible for Walt Disney's first live-action film , the adventure cult-classic Treasure island (1950). In the mid-1950s Haskin began a rewarding association with producer George Pal, for whom he filmed what is probably his best-known film , the science fiction classic War of the worlds (1953) and a catastrophe movie , The naked jungle (1954). Haskin was expert on Sci-Fi genre , as he would collaborate with Pal on other films , such as Conquest of Space (1955) , Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and The power (1968). He also directed some Western as Denver Rio Grande and Silver City . The Power (1968) rating : 6.5/10. The yarn will appeal to science fiction, fantasy and fancy imagination buffs , well catching .
Interesting film with plenty of thrills , shocking scenes , suspense , intrigue , plot twists and being slightly entertaining , well-paced with some slow-moving scenes and receives a rather plodding treatment , at times . It contains action enough with formidable special effects and nice make-up . It's all in fun , and entertaining enough. Resulting to be a dazzling , hypnotic entertainment that poses a challenge to its viewers , it was deemed extremely graphic for its time with some eerie scenes at the end . Occasionally confusing but otherwise notable film , portraying a peculiar ring with psychical powers , a clear precedent to ¨David Cronenberg's Scanners¨. Hightlights of the picture are the creepy final confrontation among protagonists and the shocking scene in which a role's heart blows up . Main and support cast are pretty good . Secondary actors formed by a lot of Hollywood familar faces , such as : Richard Carlson , Yvonne De Carlo , Earl Holliman ,Gary Merril , Ken Murray, Barbara Nichols , Arthur O'Connell, Nehemiah Persoff , Aldo Ray, Vaughan Taylor , Miiko Taka and Michael Rennie.
It packs colorful and luminous cinematography in Panavision and Technicolor by cameraman Ellsworth Frederick . Thrilling musical score by Miklós Rózsa , this great composer creates a pounding and astounding score . This well-budgeted motion picture by George Pal was competently directed by Byron Haskin with originality enough , delivering a great sense of wonder and tension . Haskin was a good craftsman who worked in Warner Brothers Special Effects department . He returned to filmmaking , and was responsible for Walt Disney's first live-action film , the adventure cult-classic Treasure island (1950). In the mid-1950s Haskin began a rewarding association with producer George Pal, for whom he filmed what is probably his best-known film , the science fiction classic War of the worlds (1953) and a catastrophe movie , The naked jungle (1954). Haskin was expert on Sci-Fi genre , as he would collaborate with Pal on other films , such as Conquest of Space (1955) , Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and The power (1968). He also directed some Western as Denver Rio Grande and Silver City . The Power (1968) rating : 6.5/10. The yarn will appeal to science fiction, fantasy and fancy imagination buffs , well catching .