The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch is a 1973 novel by Peter Van Greenaway, which was adapted fairly faithfully into a feature film in 1978. The novel tells the story of a radically disenchanted novelist with highly destructive telekinetic powers. Its dialogue was described in Kim Newman's book Nightmare Movies (1988) as "incredibly misanthropic". The Medusa Touch is one of several Van Greenaway books featuring the character Inspector Cherry of Scotland Yard. The 1978 movie version starred actor Richard Burton as the lead character John Morlar.

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Stars: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews
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IMDB:
7.0
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PG
Year:
1978
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John Morlar:
I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads

[last lines]

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

John Morlar:
[his first meeting with Zonfeld] I have a "gift" for disaster.

Doctor Zonfeld:
You seem to have survived it.

John Morlar:
I don't mean for me, I mean for others.

Doctor Johnson:
[sees Brunel] Oh, Inspector Brunel, what a pain in the derri?re you'll be.

John Morlar:
What am I? How can I will death?

Doctor Zonfeld:
[describing Morlar to Brunel] Most of my patients find the world too much for them. He was too much for the world.

"We’re all the Devil’s children. We find what powers the sun and we make bombs out of it, we create wealth and we become obsessed with greed, we achieve power and we go mad. We always destroy."

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