CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Leofwine_draca THE PSYCHOTRONIC MAN is an indie horror flick that seems to have been made in order to rip-off PSYCHIC KILLER, the entertaining little video nasty wannabe. This one's a very cheap-looking film with muted colours and on-the-street camerawork; if you're familiar with the kinds of thrillers put out by Vinegar Syndrome then you'll know the look. An ordinary guy discovers a talent for killing people with his mental powers so he goes on a random killing spree while the cops hunt him down. It's not very gory or suspenseful, and the acting is as basic as you'd expect, but I did enjoy the first half of this movie. Sadly, the second half gets way too bogged down in silly slow motion action scenes which merely act as padding in order to get the running time up to the required length, but drag the pacing down to a snail's crawl in the process.

ChiefEngr Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy, (aka: Mike, Crow T Robot, and Tom Servo from MST3K) have done justice to this gem. Just released today (22-Sep-2017), and available at www.rifftrax.com.It's nice to have people vocalizing all the inappropriate things that go through your mind while watching this train wreck!

Bloodwank A barber drinks aftershave. A car explodes. Am I in heaven? Not quite, but not quite heaven still ain't such a bad place to be. The brainchild of multitasking visionaries Jack Sell (director, writer, cinematographer, producer) and Peter Spelson (writer, producer, leading man, background in insurance sales), The Psychotronic Man seems to have science fiction slasher intentions, but behind the scenes tussles grounded it in PG territory. This isn't such a bad thing though, in a curious way the lack of gore (a little bit of blood but nothing serious) prevents the film from ever getting cosy and for much of the first half as well as the final moments there's a dislocated feel to proceedings that contrasts well with the stark Chicago grit of the location. Dislocation is the best thing about this one, there aren't really any moments when it feels like an ordinary film. Repetitive soundtrack made mostly of weird noises and an ominous church bell, needless but rather cool helicopter shooting (something about lonely roadways rather evocative seen from up on high), freak outs made of clutching the hair and gurning intently to the aforementioned weird noises, its a heady brew. Regrettably the second half of the film deals more with the police on our titular villains tail and is taken up with a lengthy and fairly uninteresting chase scene, only enlivened by some fun tilted angles. Peter Spelson does a good job on the whole as the star, with a sub community theatre performance that ends up surprisingly convincing as a man with fried synapses. Sadly it isn't a very well written part, we learn nothing except that he is a sleazy loser grouch who cheats on his wife. One of the least sympathetic of psychic powered killers in cinema and I've seen a fair few, what's more I'm naturally disposed to like them. Of the rest of the cast Chris Carbis sports an Irish accent as the chief of police (don't really know why this stuck out for me), other roles seem to all be filled by locals of varying, mostly low level talents. They convince well enough though, this isn't a film that needed Olivier or anyone like that. On the whole I was well engaged by about half of this one and loosely for the rest. It isn't something I'd recommend to anyone other than weirdness connoisseurs (it being the film that led Michael Weldon to adopt the term psychotronic as a descriptor of cinematic style), but to those who have to see it (you know who you are) it should provide some pleasure. 6/10.P.S. Peter Spelson's only other acting role was in the bonkers supernatural slasher gem Blood Beat. That one is an essential for weirdness fans, perhaps best watched in a double bill.

dfdresden Peter Spelson is Rocky Fosco, a Chicago city barber with a big quiff, sideburns and a pimp moustache. He drives around listening to crap country music and fixes his hair a lot. Spelson wrote and produced this very bad, no budget supernatural psychic killer flick with his pal Jack M. Sell (the guy responsible for the music, editing and mis-direction). Obviously made fer a coupla' bucks, our hairy barber is soon blacking out and dreaming he's in a flying car surrounded by smoke and disco lights. He tells his doctor (in a sequence that flashes back to the previous two minutes) and fixes his hair some more till the headaches go out of control and he drives around and fixes his hair. Then a farmer has a flashback and Rocky kills him by using his newly acquired Psychotronic powers (which involves him fixing his hair while staring intently). Duuuuh. It's rubbish, but absolutely brilliant rubbish and the type of loose brained ESP horror trash that won't quit getting crapper/better with each passing moment and it's just an ahead of it's time amateur Scanners (80) made by inept mental patients. It's genius I tells ya'. Solid gold white trash cheeze with wonky tunes, a little blood, disco dancing, the worlds slowest, dullest, longest car / foot chase and a title way cooler than it's content. Watch it twice!