2 reviews
- junk-monkey
- Nov 30, 2006
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Poor Frank Ashmore, son of a former Hollywood star who is in jail has decided to do a little transcendental meditation. In fact he freaks the fecal matter out of a the guy with the cell across from his with a disappearing act he's perfected. Who says you can't learn anything new in the joint?
Of course he escapes and then goes on the hunt to strangle a lot of former Hollywood cheesecake like Elke Sommer, Sue Lyon, Stefanie Powers, while being hunted by intrepid cops Robert Foxworth and Mark Slade are on the hunt for a murderer who leaves absolutely no forensics.
The Astral Factor is a great example of what we lost when we grew too old and sophisticated for those classic Universal horror films. This was a film with a story that cried for that kind of treatment. The obvious example here is The Invisible Man which Claude Rains put over in a such bravura style of classic theater trained acting that we don't see any more. If The Invisible Man were done the same way as The Astral Factor the audience would have been bored out of their skulls.
As was I.
Of course he escapes and then goes on the hunt to strangle a lot of former Hollywood cheesecake like Elke Sommer, Sue Lyon, Stefanie Powers, while being hunted by intrepid cops Robert Foxworth and Mark Slade are on the hunt for a murderer who leaves absolutely no forensics.
The Astral Factor is a great example of what we lost when we grew too old and sophisticated for those classic Universal horror films. This was a film with a story that cried for that kind of treatment. The obvious example here is The Invisible Man which Claude Rains put over in a such bravura style of classic theater trained acting that we don't see any more. If The Invisible Man were done the same way as The Astral Factor the audience would have been bored out of their skulls.
As was I.
- bkoganbing
- Dec 16, 2011
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