The Medusa Touch Reviews

Another one of those movies that was more of a "deal" than it was a picture. Lino Ventura makes his English film debut (probably because French sources put up some of the financing), and he comes off better than anyone else. Burton is whacked on the head by an unseen assailant, and no one can figure out why. He is virtually dead, but his brain continues to function. Ventura enters and attempts to decipher the riddle. He interviews Remick, Burton's psychiatrist, and learns that Burton is possessed of an unusual mental facility. He is a telekinetic who can cause events to happen. So as Burton lies in the hospital attached to life-support systems, a London church implodes, a jetliner smashes into a skyscraper, etc. Ventura continues to investigate and learns that Burton's brain may have been the reason for these disasters. Ventura ploddingly assesses the facts, then puts a stop to all the chaos. This was Burton's follow-up to EXORCIST II, THE HERETIC, and that picture was such tripe that people stayed away in droves from this one. Believe it or not, if Irwin Allen had made this movie, it might have been better. Instead, it was "presented" by Sir Lew Grade, a ubiquitous presence in the financing of British films in the 1970s and 1980s.