Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS****Horror flick about this deranged lunatic Roger "The Dodger" Sands, Frank Ashmore, who by speed reading all the books and articles from the prison library about astral projection uses that knowledge to escape from the California State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. That in to him getting even with all those witnesses at his murder trial that had him sentenced and sent there for life. As we soon find out it was Sands mother Chrlotta, Jo Ann Meredith, who warped his mind in her keeping him locked up in the attic away from humanity until he was an adult. Breaking out and finding out all the momentous events that he missed in life, like the Moon Landing and New Yorks Mets winning the 1969 World Series, Sands in a blind rage, in what his not so stable mother did to him strangled her to death. Now free and at the same time, whenever he wants to be , invisible Sands plans to murder those who put him behind bars as well as anyone who stands in his way in preventing him from doing it!To make the movie more sexy & attractive all those who testified against Sands were beautiful blond actresses like his dead mom that made killing them , in like killing his hated mom over and over again, all the more gratifying for him. It's up to LA police detective Lt. Charles Barrett played by Robert Foxman, without his usual mustache,to track this psycho down but as he's soon to find out you've got to be able to see him in order shoot or arrest him. Something that Sands in him becoming visible isn't that likely to do!***SPOILERS*** With all the witness but the gorgeous blond Chris Hartman, Elke Sommers, done away with it's up to Lt. Barrett and his squad of LA policemen to keep her alive. Which anything but easy in Chris' drinking, in order to forget the danger she's in, that makes their job that much harder! Not only can Sands make himself invisible he seems to be an expert scuba diver as well as if he, in making himself invisible,really needs to be. That's when he ends up boarding movie mogul Mario's, Cesare Danova, yacht murdering both him and his girlfriend Bambi Greer, Marianna Hill, who was one of those witnesses on his trial that helped convict him. With what seemed like his just about job done and no more mountains to climb or people to murder with the exception of the drunken Chris Hartman. Sands come out into the open to finish Chris off only to step into a trap set for him by Lt. Barrett and the LAPD that sends him back to the astral world for good.

bkoganbing 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.

Cristi_Ciopron THE ASTRAL FACTOR is a pretty exciting, albeit silly, supernatural thriller about a cereal killer who, after having studied ESP and psychic sciences, escapes from prison to have his revenge by assassinating some hot matrons; slightly clumsy, gruesome like a genuine _giallo, THE ASTRAL FACTOR, an honest '70s C thriller, boasts a delightful feminine cast—Stefanie Powers, Leslie Parrish, Elke Sommer, Jennifer Burton (--an erotica starlet--).The movie's title is explained, by misleading—because this guy's case isn't one of 'out—of—body travel', but one of _dematerialization, or rather of mere invisibility.In the C flicks she made in the mid—'70s, things like GONE WITH THE WEST and THE ASTRAL FACTOR, uprising starlet Stefanie Powers had the good habit of providing us with a glimpse of her naked behind; by then, she was already 33—34 yrs. An article says that CRESCENDO is 'notable only for her brief nude scene, the only one in her career'; it seems we have a definition problem. Stefanie shows her ass in at least two other flicks—those mentioned. So, take heart, Powers fans, it's more to Stefanie than it looks like!

classicsoncall Ten years after 'Star Trek' and this film features an escaped convict using the 'beam me up Scotty' routine without a teleporter device. Roger Sands (Frank Ashmore) is on the hunt for celebrity starlets who remind him of his mom so that he can practice his strangle holds on them. Roger was kept in isolation by his mother growing up and never got a chance to play nice.On the hunt for the invisible killer is perennial TV movie actor Robert Foxworth, a police lieutenant teamed up with a pen clicking detective (Mark Slade) and a wife who only dresses her upper body (Stefanie Powers). Her standard line when hubby Chuck goes off to do his police work is "Have a nice time".In early scenes when Sands becomes invisible, he does so clothes and all. That's why it's a bit curious during a beach scene when the lieutenant finds Sands' scuba suit discarded following an escape using his powers, an interesting lapse of continuity.The film's original release title is probably a better fit for the story than the one I saw it under - "The Astral Factor". About midway through I began to feel just like Roger Sands commenting to his mother in a flashback scene' "...I just can't do it any more". If anyone recommends getting together to watch this flick, consider making yourself invisible.