This movie is a montage depicting "psychic" phenomenon...most obviously fake. It's narrated by the late, great, John Carradine, who lends his gravely growl to the spookiness. The opening depicts man's inhumanity to man, with scenes of starving Bafria children, a man executed by the Viet Cong, atomic bombs, and other cheery stuff.
As for one reviewer saying the film had "so-called real experts"...well, of course there are no experts, they're all fakes. It's like saying a "so-called expert on Leprechauns".
What you'll see is: A dentist who uses hypnosis to perform dental surgery, fake Philipino psychic surgery, fake voodoo levitation in Africa (...or is it? MUHAHAHA), a famous British psychic healer "who never charged for his services", but what the movie failed to mention was he accepted huge donations. There's also an Italian séance where the psychic uses the old regurgitation trick to vomit up cheesecloth...er...ectoplasm.
There's a couple of Christian exorcisms, one takes place at an Anglican church in England. The Priest seems sincerer, and there is an interview with at least one satisfied customer. Although I imagine the girl who's possessed was a plant by the producers who hoodwinked the Priest...after all you can't travel to film an exorcism and not have one. If not, she was the most harmless possessed person ever, flailing about gently on the floor. Then there's a french priest who took in a possessed woman who seems more like a schizophrenic.
For Voodoo lovers, there's a black magic Quimbanda ritual, complete with a black cat getting it's throat cut. Ewwwww. A Ju Ju man in Ghana does some side show tricks, and then "makes it rain". There's even a woman who gets "pregnant by voodoo", although we never see the end result, but I'm sure the producers wouldn't lie.
Petro Hoy does sideshow tricks to "prove" his psychic powers, including fire-walking and shoving a knitting needle through his cheeks. There's also some "professional" parasychological stuff, including kirilian video photography (which has been debunked) and someone who can "astrally project" via a rather complicated test (because they're easier to beat). If you blink you'll miss an interview with occult/psychic book author David St. Clair, which lasts about 10 seconds.
And there's lots more, Italian psychic healers, a medium that convinces her cult she can contact their loved ones (also Italian), the "Integreton", which is basically a big wooden building that spins around, an astronaut that became an astro-nut, gratuitous gory scenes, etc., An expose on psychic phenomenon this isn't. But just use common sense, and you'll see through most of it.
As for one reviewer saying the film had "so-called real experts"...well, of course there are no experts, they're all fakes. It's like saying a "so-called expert on Leprechauns".
What you'll see is: A dentist who uses hypnosis to perform dental surgery, fake Philipino psychic surgery, fake voodoo levitation in Africa (...or is it? MUHAHAHA), a famous British psychic healer "who never charged for his services", but what the movie failed to mention was he accepted huge donations. There's also an Italian séance where the psychic uses the old regurgitation trick to vomit up cheesecloth...er...ectoplasm.
There's a couple of Christian exorcisms, one takes place at an Anglican church in England. The Priest seems sincerer, and there is an interview with at least one satisfied customer. Although I imagine the girl who's possessed was a plant by the producers who hoodwinked the Priest...after all you can't travel to film an exorcism and not have one. If not, she was the most harmless possessed person ever, flailing about gently on the floor. Then there's a french priest who took in a possessed woman who seems more like a schizophrenic.
For Voodoo lovers, there's a black magic Quimbanda ritual, complete with a black cat getting it's throat cut. Ewwwww. A Ju Ju man in Ghana does some side show tricks, and then "makes it rain". There's even a woman who gets "pregnant by voodoo", although we never see the end result, but I'm sure the producers wouldn't lie.
Petro Hoy does sideshow tricks to "prove" his psychic powers, including fire-walking and shoving a knitting needle through his cheeks. There's also some "professional" parasychological stuff, including kirilian video photography (which has been debunked) and someone who can "astrally project" via a rather complicated test (because they're easier to beat). If you blink you'll miss an interview with occult/psychic book author David St. Clair, which lasts about 10 seconds.
And there's lots more, Italian psychic healers, a medium that convinces her cult she can contact their loved ones (also Italian), the "Integreton", which is basically a big wooden building that spins around, an astronaut that became an astro-nut, gratuitous gory scenes, etc., An expose on psychic phenomenon this isn't. But just use common sense, and you'll see through most of it.