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Invisible Strangler
The Astral Fiend / The Astral Factor
USA 1976
produced by Earle Lyon, Fred Jordan (executive)
directed by John Florea
starring Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Sue Lyon, Mark Slade, Leslie Parrish, Marianna Hill, Elke Sommer, Percy Rodrigues, Alex Dreier, Rayford Barnes, frederick Tully, Frank Ashmore, Larry Golden, Renata Vaselle, Cesare Danova, Eddie Firestone, Bill Overton, Carol Blalock, Jenniver Burton, George Cheung, Albert Cole, John Hart, Robert F. Hoy, Harry Lewis, Walter O.Miles, Queenie Smith, Al Tipay, Frank DeSal, Troy Melton, George Robotham, Jerry Wills, Budd Bryan, Bea Marie Busch, Bonnie Evans, Kathy Gale, Nancy Martin, Judy Van Wormer, Jo Anne Meredith
story by Earle Lyon, screenplay by Arthur C.Pierce, music by Richard Hieronymus, Alan Oldfield, special effects by Roger Goerge
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Sands (Frank Ashmore) is a dangerous serialkiller who kills (minor)
celebrities because they remind him of his mother, a celebrity herself who
has always denied his existence. Because he's so dangerous then, it's good
that he is locked up ... but wait, in jail he has mastered many ESP powers
including telekinesis, astral projection and turning himself invisible, so
it's no problem for him to one day just walk out of prison with nobody
noticing. Of course, once outside, he continues where he has left off:
killing celebrities. Cops Barrett (Robert Foxworth) and Holt (Mark Slade)
soon pick up his trail, and even find a list containing those who Sands
plans to murder, yet there's incredibly little they can do, since he's
invisible and all that shit, and he even manages to kill a dancer (Renata
Vaselle) before their very eyes and makes ti to and from a heavily guarded
yacht to kill an actress (Marianna Hill) without problems - and rather
inexplicably without using his invisibility mode, too. Ultimately, it's
all down to the last woman on Sands' list, Chris Hutton (Elke Sommer), who
is pretty much put under high security protection - even against her own
will -, and who ultimately turns out to be the perfect gate, because after
avoiding a million or so traps before it, Sands is finally trapped and
killed by a barrage of bullets and electric shocks, only a few feet away
from his final supposed vidtim ... Stefanie Powers plays Robert
Foxworth's slightly weird yet sexy wife, but she doesn't have any real
meaning to the film's plot.
Pretty stupid supernatural thriller
that above all doesn't seem to be properly thought through. Fact is, one
never knows if the killer is just an invisible man or an astral
projection, and his whole character background is rather ridiculous and
ridiculously clichéd. Add to this hilariously bad special effects and a
directorial effort that never even attempts to rise above functional (and
sometimes isn't even that), and you've got a pretty bad film that isn't
even so bad it's funny.
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