Word: psychics
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...effects-flying furniture, a levitation-are good. What else could be expected with such a budget? Von Sydow has a presence of unshadowed strength. Jason Miller (author of the Broadway play That Championship Season) makes a very impressive first film appearance with a performance full of swift undercurrents of psychic pain. Lin da Blair performs bravely as the tormented girl; the rasping voice of her demon is hauntingly dubbed (without screen credit) by Mercedes McCambridge. Ellen Burstyn, a good actress who is especially adept at portraying a beleaguered strength, is stuck here with an assignment that might once have suited...
Their presence has generated a series of uneasy confrontations, and as they depart, Katharine Hepburn is inexplicably moved to praise the psychic release found in sleep. "They say we sleep to let the demons out," she proclaims...
Over the years, Jason Robards' psychic affinity for O'Neill has marked the peaks of his acting career. His Hickey in The Iceman Cometh, Jamie in Long Day's Journey, and title role in Hughie will probably never be surpassed. Increasingly, Robards even looks like O'Neill. He has the brooding, deep-set eyes that look out from O'Neill's photographs with searing gravity. His performance in Misbegotten will remain a touchstone for all actors to measure themselves...
...LOOK NOW. Guilt and psychic phenomena haunt a waking nightmare, wonderfully directed by Nicolas Roeg and acted by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie...
...year-olds in Colorado, finds U.S. children "the advance guard of technology, with their long legs, proud faces and elongated bodies, the thrice great brains." But living as they are at what she calls "the spearpoint" of civilization, bombarded by TV and stereo sounds, they are becoming, she says, "psychic mutants...