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The Medusa Touch gets the 5 Minute Drive-In treatment in this fast cut of the 1978 supernatural horror thriller starring Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, and Lee Remick.

Richard Burton plays John Morlar, a novelist who believes he can cause disasters with his mind. After Morlar is found nearly dead, a French detective starts digging into his life and uncovers a terrifying pattern of crashes, deaths, psychic rage, and full-on disaster energy.

This 5 minute edit cuts straight to the stare, the doom, the investigation, the plane panic, and the cathedral chaos.

5 Weird Fun Facts:
1. The movie is based on Peter Van Greenaway’s 1973 novel.
2. Richard Burton plays John Morlar, a novelist who believes he can cause disasters with his mind.
3. Lino Ventura plays the French detective Brunel.
4. Lee Remick plays Morlar’s psychiatrist, Dr. Zonfeld.
5. The cast also includes Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Brett, Michael Hordern, and Gordon Jackson.

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Transcript
00:08talk about beating somebody's brains out it's not possible
00:17terrible isn't it how can i help you why did they come to you i have a gift for disaster
00:23it began when a nanny he hated died of measles he believed he caused it she was an irish bitch
00:28i closed my eyes and prayed to the devil dear lucifer let her burn in hell fire the next day
00:34she took to her bed and died his delusions were reinforced and mother was passed to prime a lot
00:39of paint covering the worst cracks father squired from a reserve regiment when england's need was
00:44at its greatest but he was no match for her you played with the brakes no if he believed he
00:57was
00:57involved in disasters he may have convinced someone else to and they sought revenge his
01:02brain it shouldn't be working at all after the way it's been smashed she was a monster created to do
01:07battle with the gods earthquakes massacres and he has reams up there were there any deaths involved
01:13few was mola blamed for any of them yes he was under suspicion
01:17one thousand one hundred and forty nine these leaves are wet get out
01:28one master and four boys died in the fire mauler admitted to leaving the furnace door open you've
01:33given me my first lead doctor i did not set fire to my school i did not touch the brakes
01:37of my father's
01:38car therefore must be something else and was there something else what else could there be i hated him
01:44i never tried to kill him i'll open a tin of ravioli it'll be all right i'd rather die before
01:49you kill me
01:50for god's sakes woman jump
01:56was mola always a writer no he began as a lawyer together with grandpa's piss pathetic medal
02:02and his artificial leg there was no bomb no threats no conspiracy nine years
02:09something happened to him died of a heart attack
02:18if you say coincidence to me i will drive my fist through your face
02:22just a simple reading i suggest that you go
02:27coincidence palmistry mr mauler you really don't deserve her nobody deserves patricia
02:33she was invented by god to test our belief in him her gift is for prussic acid and flying on
02:39broomsticks don't expect me back my wife and an unidentified male companion had been killed in a car crash
02:45but you couldn't cause an accident miles away you wanted it badly that's what we must concentrate
02:50i made that accident happen that was the last time i saw mr
02:56like a ride inspector you're looking at a mine determined not to die nuclear pollution made britain
03:02i made them happen
03:13a jumbo jet has crashed in central london i lied to you i could help no one that night i
03:19believed
03:20our victim was obviously a nut but why kill him i think it must have been because she believed he
03:25was going to do something worse what is this for we're getting ready for the thanksgiving service
03:29if that goes the whole lot goes they're worried about cracks in the west front i will bring
03:34the whole edifice down i don't want to miss this i thought i might somehow stop it
03:45and i failed couldn't tell anyone no one would believe me i have seen the cathedral we are mad
03:50together he is fighting to live with superhuman resistance
04:03already you're becoming used to my failures so i leave our problem with you my dear inspector
04:18that's all right
04:22uh
04:22uh
04:22uh
04:22uh
04:27uh
04:55The nuclear bomb.
05:07My wife and I had a baby.
05:10It was born deformed, and when it died, the whole hospital breathed a sigh of relief.
05:15If you say coincidence to me, I will drive my fist through your face.
Comments
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Tim Ackelmire
Creator
Is Richard Burton terrifying in The Medusa Touch, or is this the greatest angry-staring disaster movie ever?
Tim Ackelmire
Creator
2 days ago
What is the wildest part: the psychic disasters, the nearly dead novelist, the plane chaos, or Richard Burton’s cursed stare?

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