The plot in fact suggests a crossing of Carrie with the 1968 George Pal-Byron Haskin movie The Power. John Morlar (Burton) has a flair for catastrophe that borders on the diabolic. The telekinetic hero of The Medusa Touch has powers that Carrie White would blench at. One hopes that all this adds up to making it a hit at last.Īs the ultimate in disaster movies, and a more intelligent and intriguing variant on the subject matter of Carrie, it would seem to have a lot going for it. Double-billed with an even older Paul Bartel movie, it got saturation bookings all over the country, and was even advertised on TV – very rare in Britain. (The remarks of RTJ in MTN 60-61 suggest the film got oblivion treatment in the U.S., too.) Nearly another year went by and then, blammo!, it was all over the place. Despite lots of names, a big budget and good notices, it then did what every film of above-average interest is likely to do in Britain: it disappeared totally from sight. Richard Burton went into it hot on the heels of Exorcist II and Equus, but it took about a year to follow them into the cinemas, opening in London in June of 1978. The Medusa Touch has had a most curious history.
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