...Their thoughts can kill
...10 Seconds: The pain begins
...15 Seconds: You can't breathe
...20 seconds: You Explode!
What can I say that hasn't been said a zillion times before - this is a classic tale of people with psychic ability being victimised by a military backed government unless, of course, they use their powers for military purposes.
Staring Stephen Lack (not really an actor but an internationally respected painter and sculptor), Michael Ironside (Total Recall , Robocop), Jennifer O'Neill (Fulci's The Psychic) and the ever amazing Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner, Braveheart)
The film is a product of it's time and reflects the paranoia of the cold war when the military would try anything to get the upper hand against the red menace (a precurser to THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS?)
Thankfully from the days before CGI vanila blandness the fX are great - the exploding head scene is legend and achieved by filling a balloon with offal and blasting it with a shotgun. Really cool.
The film is fast paced and if any film deserves it's cult status (a status that is banded about too easily these days) its this Cronenberg classic
4 beers and an exploding head out of 5
...10 Seconds: The pain begins
...15 Seconds: You can't breathe
...20 seconds: You Explode!
What can I say that hasn't been said a zillion times before - this is a classic tale of people with psychic ability being victimised by a military backed government unless, of course, they use their powers for military purposes.
Staring Stephen Lack (not really an actor but an internationally respected painter and sculptor), Michael Ironside (Total Recall , Robocop), Jennifer O'Neill (Fulci's The Psychic) and the ever amazing Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner, Braveheart)
The film is a product of it's time and reflects the paranoia of the cold war when the military would try anything to get the upper hand against the red menace (a precurser to THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS?)
Thankfully from the days before CGI vanila blandness the fX are great - the exploding head scene is legend and achieved by filling a balloon with offal and blasting it with a shotgun. Really cool.
The film is fast paced and if any film deserves it's cult status (a status that is banded about too easily these days) its this Cronenberg classic
4 beers and an exploding head out of 5
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