Deborah
Raffin; Robert Englund; David Ackroyd; Bruce Davison; Andrew Prine
Your standard "dancing hamburger with a heart of gold" picture,
Mind Over Murder (released on video as Deadly
Vision) features Deborah Raffin (God
Told Me To) as a dancer who starts having batshit visions
related to an airplane bombing while she is doing things like making dinner
and riding the bus. Starting off with a bang (Raffin literally pops out
of a hamburger at the start of the film) and featuring a few honest-to-God
neato vision sequences (time slows and stops except for Raffin and whomever
else is involved in the vision, often with Dr. Who-quality special effects),
the movie starts to tank after about 20 minutes and barely grinds its
way across the finish line in a lame finale. Andrew Prine
turns in a baffling performance as the killer Bald Man, but his choice
to wear what are obviously women's jeans for the duration of the film
is far more horrifying than anything else about his character. Englund
turns in a barely-there supporting job, and Bruce Davison
was entirely unrecognizeable to me, for some reason -- he just plays his
standard asshole boyfriend/husband character. Extra points for using a
slowly falling egg as a metaphor for a plane crash (see also Don't
Go to Sleep for use of falling food as a stand-in for carnage),
but not much else.
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