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Toque satánico

Título original: The Medusa Touch
  • 1978
  • PG
  • 1h 49min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.9/10
8.1 k
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Richard Burton in Toque satánico (1978)
A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
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Thriller psicológico sobre un novelista telequinético que provoca desastres con solo pensar en ellos.Thriller psicológico sobre un novelista telequinético que provoca desastres con solo pensar en ellos.Thriller psicológico sobre un novelista telequinético que provoca desastres con solo pensar en ellos.

  • Dirección
    • Jack Gold
  • Guionistas
    • John Briley
    • Peter Van Greenaway
  • Elenco
    • Richard Burton
    • Lee Remick
    • Lino Ventura
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.9/10
    8.1 k
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Jack Gold
    • Guionistas
      • John Briley
      • Peter Van Greenaway
    • Elenco
      • Richard Burton
      • Lee Remick
      • Lino Ventura
    • 101Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 59Opiniones de los críticos
    • 49Metascore
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    • Premios
      • 1 nominación en total

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    Richard Burton
    Richard Burton
    • John Morlar
    Lee Remick
    Lee Remick
    • Dr. Zonfeld
    Lino Ventura
    Lino Ventura
    • Detective-inspector Brunel
    Harry Andrews
    Harry Andrews
    • Assistant Commissioner
    Alan Badel
    Alan Badel
    • Quinton - Barrister
    Marie-Christine Barrault
    Marie-Christine Barrault
    • Patricia Morlar
    Jeremy Brett
    Jeremy Brett
    • Edward Parrish
    Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern
    • Altropos - Fortune Teller
    Gordon Jackson
    Gordon Jackson
    • Dr. Johnson
    Michael Byrne
    Michael Byrne
    • Sgt. Duff
    Derek Jacobi
    Derek Jacobi
    • Moulton - John's Publisher
    Robert Lang
    Robert Lang
    • Pennington
    Avril Elgar
    • Mrs. Pennington
    John Normington
    John Normington
    • Mr. Copley - John's Schoolmaster
    Robert Flemyng
    Robert Flemyng
    • Judge McKinley
    Philip Stone
    Philip Stone
    • Dean
    Malcolm Tierney
    Malcolm Tierney
    • Deacon
    Norman Bird
    Norman Bird
    • Maj. Henry Morlar - John's Father
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      • Jack Gold
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      • John Briley
      • Peter Van Greenaway
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    philosopherjack

    The film carries an unlikely symbolic force

    Any modern-day remake of Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch would probably skew much younger in its casting and energy-level, its plot fleshed out by race-against-time set-pieces. If Gold's version works significantly better than seems likely, it's largely because of its world-weariness and sense of crusty experience, allowing its melodramatic contrivances to seem like expressions of shared frustration and common anticipation of doom. Richard Burton is among the stiffest and intemperate of leading men, so it works pretty well to cast him as a man driven by those very qualities, allowed several vituperative rants about societal hypocrisy and the general mediocrity of people individually and collectively: the premise is that he has the capacity to destroy at will, from individuals who cross him, to planes that he pulls from the sky for the hell of it (the retrospective echo of 9/11 is impossible to shut out), or even beyond that, to tamper with the workings of manned space probes. Lino Ventura (his presence on the British police force amusingly attributed to an exchange program with the French) comes in to investigate after Burton's Morlar is attacked in his home and left for dead - the film dramatizes the fruits of his investigation in flashback, interspersed with the growing anxiety as Morlar clings to life against all odds, his malicious capacities and intents possibly intact. The extensive use of other establishment actors in small parts, the alertness to time and place, and the breadth of Morlar's fury (encompassing the family, the education system, the law, the church, etc.) gives the film an unlikely symbolic force, allowing the character to embody whatever undiagnosed or unaddressed ills are slowly poisoning us. At the risk of auteur-seeking excess, it's thus tempting to see the film as a companion piece to Gold's sensational The Reckoning, which dramatizes a very different form of rage-filled triumph over the English establishment.
    9Mikew3001

    Dark psychological thriller

    "The Medusa Touch" is a typical seventies "devil conspiracy" movie like the popular "The Exorcist" and "The Omen" series combined with the typical paranoia and disaster movies between "Earthquake" and "Airport". The late Richard Burton plays an obsessed psychic who tries to convince a psychiatrist (Lee Remick) of his demonic power to kill people and to cause disasters just by the strength of his thoughts. Being a victim of an assassination and a coma patient in a hospital, his mad thoughts are causing even worse attacks on buildings that are causing the death of hundreds of people. French cop Lino Ventura, working as a guest policeman in London, tries to find out the mystery of Burton's dark life.

    Although there's not much action, this horror movie is thrilling and dominated by the convincing performances of the actors. There is a sinister atmosphere of terror and paranoia all around, and you expect the unexpected in every single moment. A fine psychological terror movie in typical seventies style that is worth being watched!
    8ginish666

    well directed, well cast, excellent adaptation of book

    The manner in which the film was chronographed was somewhat unique. In real time the main character, Morlar, is comatized by severe head trauma. In fact the movie opens with his attempted murder. The unfolding of events in the ensuing investigation are presented with smooth transitions from flashback to present in order to create a sense of fatalistic inevitability. The director takes a very difficult path to achieve this but I think he pulled it off very effectively. Look for little tricks to smooth out the staccato chronological transitions. Small similarities between outgoing and incoming scenes create a more seamless effect.Also, the sounds of a former scene would linger for a couple of seconds after the transition, further uniting past & present to emphasize the inevitable hopelessness of the inspectors situation. It also serves to demonstrate Morlar's indomitable, fatalistic will.

    All the characters are well (and cleverly)cast, particularly Richard Burton as Morlar. VonGreenway's book comments on the intensity of Morlar's character and his riveting gaze. Burton was obviously intimately familiar with the text as his rendition of Morlar is, to say the least, riveting.

    The apocryphal elements added by the director, the cataclysmic disasters vastly improve the story's big-screen appeal, even if they were a bit of a departure from the text. The director simplifies the text by only indirectly referring to Morlar's political agenda. To follow the text in this would be setting up an entirely different story and would distract from the immediacy of the peril Morlar represents for the inspector and the psychiatrist.

    The "tongue in cheek" manner in which these two meet serves to show a comprehensive understanding of the text, it gives clear notice (to those familiar with the book) the text cannot realistically be followed in every way. "I'm sorry I was expecting a man." the inspector explains his reaction to her. "That's alright, I was expecting an English Inspector." She responds. This, of course, was a reference to the characters as they appeared in the book.

    This is a well directed film, making sense of a difficult text in an acceptable time frame. Richard Burton was an excellent choice as Morlar, he has a dominating presence that lends well to the character. These things along with an excellent rendition of a sensational, compelling story make the Medusa Touch one of the best suspense films ever.
    manxmikea

    It was scary then, and it's still scary now.

    I remember seeing this on TV many years ago, and I'm glad I caught it at such a young age. Back then it was really scary, but even today - when we're blessed (or cursed) with visual effects that are so convincing - it is still capable of sending a shiver up my spine.

    The film's pace is methodical, but Richard Burton admirably conveys a sense of quiet menace as he loses his grip on sanity during a series of flashbacks. The acting by the other leads is solid enough, but the film is all about Burton's chilling psychic powers, and when they are let loose at the film's climax, the result is genuinely shocking.
    creativeguy0123

    UNDERRATED SUPERNATURAL THRILLER

    Hmm. Some of the reviewers here have complained about the film's slow pacing. Well, yes...compared to the MTV style edited movies of the past 5 years, I'd have to agree. But, the pacing is also necessary in order to show the slow psychological breakdown of the lead character. It's a slow burn type of story, and the filmmakers were much more concerned with building a creepy atmosphere than bombarding us with CGI effects, blood and gore, and whatever else passes for supernatural horror these days.

    Besides, Richard Burton on a bad day is better than most actors at their best.

    If "Jason X" and other hollow, special effects driven films are your idea of horror...then this isn't the film for you. The Medusa Touch is a methodically paced thriller, aimed at genre fans who enjoy a more thoughtful kind of horror film. If you enjoyed "Don't Look Now," then this is the type of film for you.

    If you have the rare opportunity to catch this obscure film, you should at least give it a fair shake. Then you can decide for yourself.

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    • Trivia
      Jack Gold did not want Richard Burton and instead suggested Nicol Williamson for the lead role. The producers told him it would be easier to get funding with Burton, who had just made his "comeback" movie Equus (1977).
    • Errores
      As Inspector Brunel watches the TV news, a close-up of the screen reveals that the caption saying "Minster Cathedral" is actually applied to the TV screen rather than forming part of the TV picture. The letters cast shadows on the glass.
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      [last lines]

      John Morlar: [voiceover] I am the man with the power to create catastrophe.

    • Conexiones
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Special Edition: Grease, Jaws 2, Animal House, Heaven Can Wait & The Best and Worst of 1978 (1979)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 8 de febrero de 1979 (México)
    • Países de origen
      • Reino Unido
      • Francia
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    • También se conoce como
      • The Medusa Touch
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Minster Cathedral, London)
    • Productoras
      • Coatesgold
      • ITC Entertainment
      • Bulldog
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      • 1h 49min(109 min)
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      • Mono
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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