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...Psycho, the Alfred Hitchcock film with the famous death-in-the-shower scene. Also Dementia (1955) by John Parker. Kirkland House...
...Terminal Man, the near future is practically upon us. The theme is mind control through psychosurgery, today hardly in the realm of science fiction (TIME, April 3). Crichton's surgeons plant 40 minuscule electrodes in the brain of Harry Benson, a psycho-motor epileptic whose fits turn him into a homicidal maniac. The electrodes, powered by a tiny nuclear battery implanted in Harry's shoulder, deliver small electrical impulses which check the epileptic fit at its onset...
...benefit showing of "Psycho" netted only &80 for the Harvard-Radcliffe Refugee Committee, and additional donations bring the Committee's relief fund up to only...
...blade. Eastwood, making his first directorial outing, has to chart a course through the holes in the plot. There are a couple of hackneyed moments (notably a nude love scene), but Eastwood displays a vigorous talent for sequences of violence and tension. He has obviously seen Psycho and Repulsion more than once, but those are excellent texts and he has learned his lessons passing well...
...years' duration) is over. Dennis Hopper has blown it. His directorial debut may have been adolescent; his second movie is puerile. Formless, artless, it is narcissistic but not introspective, psycho but not analytic-a shotgun wedding of R.D. Laing and the Late Show. Its basic idea is not unsound: a movie company shoots a western in the Andes; when it leaves, the peasants mimic the staged violence but cannot separate reality from fantasy...