Wednesday, October 18, 2017

The Astral Factor

Actors: Robert Foxworth,  Stefanie Powers, Sue Lyon, Mark Slade, Leslie Parrish, Marianna Hill,  Elke Sommer,  Percy Rodrigues
Rating: 1 out of 10, My journey through 100 bad sci fi films continues to bombard my senses with utter nonsense. This is one of the first that I recognized most of the cast and wondered how they were coerced into making this. Most were TV stars and maybe this is why. This felt like a TV movie except for the swearing and gratuitous butt shots. One of my favorite all time actresses, Stephanie Powers, is completely ruined in a ditzy throw away role. The plot involved a maniacal prison inmate who studies hard and figures out how to make himself invisible (the old astral plane ploy). This of course comes in very handy considering his incarcerated state and he’s soon outside launching on a murder spree of attractive women. With her brief role as a potential victim I can now completely understand the fascination with Elke Summer who was the only one who didn’t mail in their performance. A really bad movie.
MVP: Elke Sommer as Chris Hartman

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