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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Psychic Killer (1975)

A mother fixated young man (Jim Hutton) is convicted of a murder he did not commit and is sent to a mental asylum. During his incarceration there, his mother dies of neglect. When his innocence is proved and he is released, he plots to get revenge by using his ability to project himself out of his body. Directed by actor Ray Danton, this unpleasant low budget horror concoction comes as rather exploitative and sleazy. It's not only the glee with which the film dwells on some of the graphic violence (like Neville Brand's death) but the tits and ass exploitation like when a sexy nurse (Mary Charlotte Wilcox) sexually taunts her terminally ill patient before stripping down to her bra and panties and boogies down to the shower where she meets her death. I won't even go into the unethical actions of the cop's (Paul Burke) taking justice into his own hands. The cast is full of familiar faces who have all distinguished themselves in better films: Julie Adams, Aldo Ray, Nehemiah Persoff and Whit Bissell. Others in the cast include Della Reese and Judith Brown.

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