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William S. Wilson

Posted: Apr 10 2012, 06:32 PM

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A friend sent me this via email for a friend of his. The era we're looking at here are the late 70s/early 80s. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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I saw this movie on TV once, when I was a kid, and I have no idea what the title of it is. I only remember bits and pieces of it...

There's a killer active in some big city. The main character - I believe - was a woman. I think she might have had some sort of psychic link with the killer. The killer was pretty much an unknown villain, so not a main character from the story that has his identity revealed at the end. I remember the killer to be tall and bald. There were these weird sequences throughout the movie involving the woman: she often spots (commercial) billboards with faces - or posters with one particular face, might also be the case - throughout the city, and most of the time the faces displayed on these billboards have their mouths torn open (just the paper that came loose around the mouth). I remember a couple of those billboards were filmed in slow-motion so that it appeared as if the faces were laughing at her (one of those posters might have been displayed on a bus or a truck passing by). I think these visions were supposed to be omens of some sort, connecting her (as a psychic) to the villain, inevitably leading to a climax where she might become his next victim. I remember the climax to be the villain and her (and/or maybe some cop) chasing each other through some gritty-looking, rundown building. Then someone almost falling down from the building, but hanging on to something. While his/her feet are struggling to get a hold on the wall he/she is hanging against, they tear a piece of a poster on a billboard. The poster has a face on it of which now the mouth is torn open just like the woman saw in her 'visions'. (at least I think this scene was part of the climax; might perhaps also be a scene happening earlier in the movie)

That's about all I can remember from it.

Any idea which movie this might be?

I'm guessing it could be a pretty obscure made-for-TV movie from back in that era.

It's not Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
It's not The Killing Hour aka The Clairvoyant (1982)
It's not Fear (1990).

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Shawn Garrett	Posted: Apr 10 2012, 10:46 PM
Mobian Group: Members Posts: 1,307 Member No.: 395 Joined: 6-November 04	THE FANTASIST? but that's 1986

Robert Richardson	Posted: Apr 11 2012, 04:15 PM
Mobian Group: Members Posts: 730 Member No.: 23 Joined: 17-October 04	I'm thinking it's the 1979 TV movie MIND OVER MURDER, directed by Ivan Nagy. Deborah Raffin is the lead, having psychic visions and being stalked by a chrome-domed killer. Bruce Davison, David Ackroyd, Andrew Prine and Robert Englund co-star.

William S. Wilson	Posted: Apr 11 2012, 04:38 PM
Mobian Idol Group: Members Posts: 7,216 Member No.: 8 Joined: 17-October 04	Robert, looks like you nailed it! Thanks so much. For anyone interested, the entire thing is up on Youtube and I just checked certain bits and it fits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5MLjB23zc -------------------- The Original Video Junkie Bruceploitation - love it, live it!

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