Thursday, May 7, 2020

The Psychotronic Man (1979)

Rocky (Peter Spelson) stops his car on a country lane after a long day of cutting hair at his barber shop but while he dozes he seems to be caught up into some strange phenomenon where his car ends up levitating. Afterwards he has headaches at random moments and is then possessed by some sort of demonic force and can kill with the power of his mind.

His first victim is a local bum whom he kills over a plate of beans. Then he kills his doctor who is beginning to suspect something is going on. The police begin the slowest investigation in history but finally Lt. O'Brien (Chris Carbis) thinks Rocky is killing people with psychotronic power...

An entertaining though pretty low-quality film, where little happens for long periods. When there is action, such as the police car chase, it is pretty shoddy though this adds to the 1970s cheese and unintentional hilarity. It is very late 1970s in look and that has an appeal of it's own of course.