Fear No Evil (1969)

After her fiance (Bradford Dillman) dies in a car crash, a young woman (Lynda Day George) begins to have visions of him in an antique mirror beckoning her to join him. A psychiatrist (Louis Jourdan) specializing in the occult attempts to discover if it's mere hallucinations or something more sinister. Directed by Paul Wendkos (THE MEPHISTO WALTZ). It wasn't unusual during the 1960s and 1970s for studios to make TV movies as possible pilots for a TV series if the film played well. Universal did two telefilms, this one and a sequel (RITUAL OF EVIL) for a proposed TV series about a psychiatrist investigating the paranormal. The proposed series title was BEDEVILED but nobody bit so it never happened. It's easy to see why the networks passed. The narrative is confusing and not much suspense is generated until the film's last half hour. Granted, ROSEMARY'S BABY had been a huge box office success the year before but I'm not sure home audiences for ready for a TV series about Satanism and the occult. With Carroll O'Connor, Marsha Hunt, Wilfrid Hyde White and Katherine Woodville, who gives the film's best performance as an acolyte of the demonic cult.