Tony McCabe stars as Mitch, who develops psychic powers after he is electrocuted and has his face disfigured by a loose electric cable. He tries to rape a nurse while he's in hospital who says "a freak lie you should have died". While working as a forune teller, an ugly witch offers to give him back his looks if he'll become her lover. The cackling, horny hag tricks him by transforming into a beautiful blonde and he finally gives in, looking very pleased and smarmy with his new face ("my proud peacock"). The witch also has big lips tattooed on her knee. Meanwhile, a schizophrenic ("a part-time madman") is strangling and burning women and even becomes a sniper. A sleazy government agent/doctor wants to use McCabe to help the local police find the murderer. He gives him L.S.D. to heighten his psychic powers, but the L.S.D. scene is a bit of a letdown (McCabe just falls asleep and has a red tinted dream). Dr. Jordan tries hitting on the witch (who's visible to everyone but McCabe as the lovely Elizabeth Hale) while McCabe plays around with other women who seem to find him irresistible. McCabe also leviatates at a party and communicates with a ghost in a church. This surprising gem also has a character assaulted by a bedsheet, very bad acting, weird gunshot sound FX, bad karate, Lewis regular Jeffrey Allen and a lot more crammed into it's short (less than 80 mins.) running time. One of Lewis(who also photographed)'s best, and the effective music by Edward J. Paten became Something Weird Video's signature tune. Hurley Directed THE PSYCHIC the following year.
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