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Psychic Killer
Title: Psychic Killer
Year Of Release: 1975
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Released By: Elite Entertainment
Directed By: Ray Danton
Writing Credits: Greydon Clark, Mikel Angel, Ray Danton
Starring: Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams
1. Meet Arnold Masters. He Can Think Of 1000 Ways To Kill You.
2. "First it drives you mad, then it kills and kills and kills!"
3. He freed his mind and body to commit the most sensual and shocking acts imaginable.
4. The psychic force generates the full power of the mind to penetrate and destroy by thought.
Alternate Titles:
The Kirlian Effect
The Kirlian Force
Killer Force
Review Date: 2.1.16
Shadow's Title: "Revenge of the Mama's Boy"
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Arnold Masters – Poor Arnold. He's committed to a mental institution for a crime he did not commit. The system completely fails to help his mother, who dies while he's incarcerated. While imprisoned, a fellow inmate gives him an amulet that allows him to project his psychic energy across space. Upon being released, Arnold uses this new ability to seek revenge on all who he feels has wronged him.
Emilio – This guy is deemed criminally insane because he freely admits to killing his own daughter as, in his own words, "she had become a whore." He has a magic amulet that allows the person wearing it to engage in a form of astral projection. This he uses to murder the pimp that ruined his daughter before bequeathing it to Arnold so he can seek his own revenge. Emilio then throws himself from the roof and kills himself.
Dr. Laura Scott – She is the doctor that tried to help Arnold when he was behind bars. After he is released and later becomes the center of a police investigation, she is called in by the cops to help in the case. She and Lt. Morgan end up in the sack, which annoys Arnold, who seems to have developed some sort of feelings for her. She's the first to realize how Arnold is murdering people while never leaving his house.
Lt. Jeff Morgan – A former FBI agent who decided to become a small town cop. Now he has a series of strange deaths to investigate. As the bodies pile up he gets more and more agitated at the lack of physical evidence. He finally connects all the dead people to Arnold Masters, but is unsure how Arnold may be killing these people. When the truth is finally revealed, he has a unique way of ending the threat once and for all.
Lt. Dave Anderson – This big guy was Jeff Morgan's partner on the police force. Yeah, that about sums up his part in the movie. He didn't do anything heroic, but neither did he do anything colossally stupid. He was just there, looking up information, compiling lists and making reports. Kind of like a secretary. A big, burly, sweaty secretary. Oh, I'm sorry...executive assistant.
Sgt. Marv Sowash – The police officer who wrongly arrested Arnold Masters. That's enough to end up on Arnold's shit list. Wearing hideous clothes is no doubt another. Truly, those things were beyond fugly. Sowash is also something of a man-slut and is called out more than once because he's too busy screwing someone every night to get enough sleep for police work. Gets SPLATTED.
Nurse Martha Burnson – She was supposed to care for Arnold's dying mother but failed to do so. She went four days without even attending to the old woman before her death. When we see her, she is "caring" for an old guy dying of cancer, which involves teasing the guy with glimpses of her boobs and oiling up her legs in front of him. Her careless attitude gets her burned and then sliced and diced.
Dr. Paul Taylor – The court appointed psychiatrist who testified at Arnold's trial. His testimony contributed to Arnold being deemed insane and packed off to the funny farm. The Doctor here likes to take female patients to his cabin and seduce them, which indicates just how professional he really is. He is on one of these trips with Anne Turner when Arnold's psychic force comes looking to snap his neck.
Anne Turner – This woman is a real dingdong. She decides to cheat on her husband, who we learn is away from home a lot. Okay, I can see why she'd cheat if she's feeling neglected, but why do it with your psychiatrist? Especially if he's at least twenty years older than you? Will she not feel as guilty about screwing another guy if the guy in question is damn near ready to join the American Association of Retired Persons?
Harvey B. Sanders – Arnold's shyster lawyer who sold him out during his trial. I'm surprised he wasn't at the very top of Arnold's shit list. To further prove what a douchebag he is, we see him constantly on the phone or dictating messages, continually threatening people with legal action. He's having an office building constructed and is already counting all the money he's going to make from renting out the units. Gets squished.
|Lemonowski – This testy fellow is the local butcher. He had nothing to do with what happened to Arnold or his mother. No, his only crime is being a raging asshole and attempting to cheat his customers. Apparently, once you start seeking revenge, even little things are worthy of death, as Arnold decides this guy needs to have some up close and personal time with all the moving blades in his butcher shop.
|Dr. Gubner – A university professor that Dr. Scott consults after she theorizes how Arnold is committing the murders. He has all sorts of insights into psychic phenomenon and helps explain to Lt. Morgan what Arnold is doing. He then gets pulled into the investigation, which is too bad for him, as he ends up with a razor blade smile.
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This movie starts off with a quote from physicist Sir James Jean. There's even a voiceover that reads it aloud for the illiterate in the audience:
"Why should any phenomenon be assumed impossible? The universe begins to look more and more like a great thought, than a great machine."
Huh? Is this the producers' way of saying that we should not assume psychic phenomenon isn't real? So any phenomenon shouldn't be arbitrarily disregarded? How about the phenomenon of giant radioactive lizards ambulating through far eastern cities? That could totally happen! Or what about the phenomenon of socks that go missing somewhere between the hamper, the washing machine and the dryer? Where do they go? Who or what takes them? Why? That is some one hundred percent true and freaky shit right there! Oh, I know! How about…the phenomenon of competent politicians? No, wait…never mind. That one is total fantasy.
We immediately dive into the opening credits, which appear over images that seem to be taken via Kirlian photography. What's that you ask? According to Wikipedia, which everyone knows is [sarcasm] always reliable and never wrong [/sarcasm], Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. So now you know. Anyway, these images appear for every name associated with this movie, except for the film's title. That appears in funky red text over a black background. This makes me think that the title of the movie was changed at the last minute and a new title card substituted over the old one.
So the movie begins and what is the very first thing we see? A man screaming in terror! No, it wasn't me looking into the mirror, dreading another craptacular film, but Arnold James Masters, who is awakening from a nightmare. He jumps up from the cot where he is sleeping and starts throwing a hissy fit. It is then that we see that poor Arnold is a patient in a mental ward of some kind. The other patients also start screaming and hollering (and laughing and probably crapping their pants and playing with it) and when an orderly tries to calm him, Arnold just pushes him to the ground. A security guard comes and unlocks the metal gate that leads out of the mental ward. Arnold pushes him aside as well and then runs through the doorway, screaming the whole time something about his mother.
After running loose a wee bit, he is eventually restrained by half a dozen orderlies, who gag him and strap him to a gurney. We learn that this is not the first time he has tried to escape. A Doctor Laura Scott appears and administers a sedative. He is then quickly ushered into a padded cell (where I may wind up, if the movies I choose to review for this site don't end up getting better).
A few days later we see Arnold being released from the mental ward and transferred back into the general population of the institution in which he resides. An institution for the criminally insane, it seems. This fenced-in outdoor common area is located on the facility's roof. Dr. Scott feels that he will be returning to her care at some point quite soon, but he insists that he is not insane and he will not confess to a crime that he did not commit.
Arnold makes his way through the inmates to a man standing by the fence. This is Emilio, who freely admits to murdering his own daughter, as she had "become a whore." I know some men tend to look down on free spirited women who are comfortable with their own sexuality and who won't let society burden them with guilt for their sexual practices, but just because a young woman has a healthy libido and enjoys the company of men is no reason to kill her! Sheesh, talk about an overreaction.
It is during their conversation that we learn Arnold's tragic story. His mother was sick and he spent all his time caring for her. She needed an expensive operation to remove a tumor but he did not have the money to pay for it and she refused to sell her house. Her doctor refused to perform the operation and he and Arnold argued quite loudly and bitterly. Later, when Arnold returned to beg him for his help, he found that the man had been murdered and accidentally got some of his blood on him. Circumstantial evidence, along with a lawyer that sold him out and a sham of trial where his own testimony was twisted by others, led to him being found not guilty of murder…by reason of insanity, so he was packed off to the funny farm. While there, a nurse was supposed to look after his mother, but did not. His mother died and the authorities did not even tell Arnold about her death for six more months. Needless to say, Arnold is not a happy man.
Emilio says that he believes Arnold's story and adds that he can help him. He adds that the day before he is to die, he will kill the pimp that turned his daughter into a whore. The day after he dies, he will help Arnold find justice. Wait…so Emilio's daughter really was a whore? Not just a loose woman, but an actual pay-me-and-I'll-let-you-put-it-in-the-bad-place whore? Well, no wonder he was ashamed of her.
That night in his cell, Emilio enters a trance while Arnold watches from his own cell. The next day on the roof, Emilio explains to Arnold that he found the man he was looking for and carved his name in his chest and then slit his throat. He also says that the resident priest at the institution refused his last rites. Without missing a beat, Emilio then runs to the fence, climbs it, makes his way over the barbed wire - getting cut in the process – and then throws himself to the ground far below. Well, a cheap dummy was dropped from the roof, but it didn't really look that convincing. Oddly enough, when Emilio launches himself from the fence, he is bent over and facing the ground. When we see the dummy falling, it is stretched out straight and facing directly up!
We see a bird's eye view of his body on the ground as a guard rushes up to examine it. The problem with this shot is that Emilio's body is about a hundred feet away from the base of the building. So not only did he throw himself from the roof, perform some truly amazing acrobatics while in freefall, but was also able to catapult his body a hundred feet away from the building! That guy should have been a track and field star!
Sometime later, Arnold is presented with Emilio's belongings. It seemed the deceased man had left a letter with his attorney saying that it was to go to Arnold. Amongst Emilio's possessions is a letter that came for him that very morning. There was no return address, but it includes a newspaper clipping that details how the body of a man was found with his throat slit and his chest sliced up worse than a pound of pork loin at your local deli. Arnold realizes that the dead man is the same man that Emilio vowed to kill before he died. Not only that, but the man died in the exact manner Emilio planned for him. How did he do that when he was in prison the entire time?
When Arnold examines Emilio's things, he finds a strange amulet. Holding it, he lays down to sleep. Almost instantly he falls into a coma-like trance and falls off his cot and into the floor. An orderly sees him and the next thing you know, Arnold is laid out naked on an examination table. It seems the authorities believe he is dead, so deep is his trance and non-existent his vital signs. Just as the medical examiner is making the first incision as part of a standard autopsy, Arnold awakens and scares the shit out of the poor man.
Soon after this, Dr. Scott and a couple other bigwigs that run the institution are discussing Arnold's case, relieved to avoid the PR nightmare that would have resulted from his accidental death during a mistaken autopsy. Arnold is brought in and told that another man has come forward and confessed to the crimes for which Arnold has been wrongly accused of perpetrating. He is going to be released. The next thing we see is him being escorted out of the institution some time later, ready to start his life again. BTW, the movie never reveals exactly how long Arnold was incarcerated, but from dialog and other clues, I'd venture to say it was a few years.
Arnold returns to his mother's house, which is now his. The place needs a good cleaning and a few windows replaced, but overall, it is much like the last time he saw it. Of course there are reminders of his mother everywhere he looks, which can't help his general mood of sadness and anger. Even worse, he finds letters he had written to his mother while he was away, heavily censored by the authorities. The poor man collapses in tears.
Later he is sitting in a chair and looking through a scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding his case that his mother no doubt had collected before she died. One headline reads Psychiatrist Testifies and another reads Masters Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity which lets us know how he ended up in that prison-like funny farm.
Along about now a cat shows up. I don't know if this was his mother's cat and it has somehow managed to eke out an existence without human help all this time, or if this is just some random stray that started squatting in his mother's house while it was vacant. Either way, the cat begins to paw at the bundle of clothes and items that Arnold brought home with him from the funny farm.
Amongst these things is the crap he inherited from Emilio, so he pulls out the amulet and begins to fall into another trance. As he slips away, he sees images of psychiatrist Paul Taylor stabbing and murdering his mother. Not exactly what happened to be sure, but he must feel that the man contributed to her early demise.
We now cut to the real Dr. Taylor as he enters a secluded cabin, accompanied by a much younger blonde woman who is supposed to be one of his patients. She removes a wedding ring while he fixes them drinks. It is soon apparent that she is cheating on her husband for the first time with this old Lech, and despite his claim to have never brought a woman to this cabin before; his tone and demeanor suggest that he is all too familiar with seducing younger women. There goes his professional credibility right out the window!
He starts to mouth a bunch of psychobabble about her suppressed feelings for her late father. As he does this, he is slowly removing her blouse and bra. So in other words, this jerk uses the intimate knowledge of his patients which he learns in a professional capacity, to manipulate and coerce them into having sex with him? What an asswipe! Just think about the emotional and mental issues these women will have after he is done with them. They came to him for help of some kind and he screwed them over…literally!
Soon enough she is naked (not that we get to see anything good), on her back and no doubt spreading easier than whipped butter. He is over her, planting kisses on her when he hears a voice. He stops to listen. He hears it again. Why it's his voice, repeating things that he said earlier. He gets up and starts looking around the cabin in a frenzied rush, trying to determine where the voice is originating. The woman does not seem too pleased that he is ignoring her once she has gotten completely naked for him. She claims to hear nothing, but he wonders if she is in cahoots with someone outside that is taunting him. He rushes outside, armed with a shotgun, to confront whoever may be there.
Alas, he sees nothing and nobody, but continues to hear his own voice repeating his own words. As he wanders into the trees, his words during Arnold Masters' trial can be heard, where his testimony contributed to Arnold's confinement in a mental institution. He takes aim at the bushes with his shotgun and fires. The next thing we see is his own dead body on the ground. What killed him?
Next up we see the blonde woman who Dr. Taylor was attempting to seduce. She is hooked up to a polygraph machine and answering questions from the police about Taylor's death, stating that she saw or heard no one. The cops seemed really determined to get all the pertinent facts, like just how naked she was and what position she had assumed on the floor. How is that going to help? Whether she was on her back or on her knees in anticipation of doing it doggy style would make no difference! I think these cops are just getting off on these questions. They grill her about Taylor's death, but she doesn't know anything and is becoming more and more distraught, so the cops let her go, as it is obvious she knows nothing useful.
The cops, including Lt. Jeff Morgan and Lt. Dave Anderson are perplexed by Taylor's death. The man had fired his shotgun at someone, but there was no trace of anyone else nearby. The blonde woman – Mrs. Turner – is not big enough to have broken his neck like it was. Even her husband, whom she was cheating on, was out of town. The cops may be mystified by events but we aren't! We know that Arnold has used the amulet inherited from Emilio to induce a trance and then travel via some astral projection technique across space to murder Dr. Taylor.
Back over at Arnold's place, he's put himself into another trance and is now having visions of his mother being pushed off a cliff by a maniacal nurse. No doubt she is the one who was supposed to care for his ailing mother and only neglected her. It's obvious that she did not push his mother over a cliff, but like Dr. Taylor before her, she is blamed by Arnold for contributing to his mother's death.
We turn our attention to the woman in question, a nurse Burnson. She is administering a shot of some kind to an old guy in a bed. She is obviously some sort of in-home health care professional and this place belongs to him. The old guy's eyes are about to bug out of his head at the sight of her cleavage dangling before his eyes. She teases him by talking about how tight her uniform is and exposing her bra. Then she oils up her legs in front of him, complaining about her duties the entire time. All the old guy manages to do is gasp and moan (which I admit, is my own response when confronted by a woman doing something similar). Since he isn't due for another enema for a while, she announces that she is going to take a shower.
She leaves the old guy and picking up a small transistor radio and turning it on, begins to dance her way down the hallway to the bathroom, divesting herself of more clothing items as she goes. I've got to say, her dancing is terrible. She isn't gyrating around that fast, but her moves are so uncoordinated, it's like watching a sloth endure a seizure. She strips down to her bra and panties and checks herself in the mirror, like all vain broads are wont to do. She then removes her bra (with her back to the camera, boo!) and enters the shower, her panties having magically vanished. Through the glass shower door, we get a full, if somewhat blurry, view of her naked body from behind as she continues to twist and sway to the music.
Proving that showers are not all that crowded, the cameraman now gets in the shower as well, and we get close ups of her arms, her legs, her back and even a fair glimpse at her butt as she passes the soap over herself. Suddenly she shrieks and jumps out of the path of the water. She adjusts the heat and then resumes her efforts. Ominous music now starts to build and we know that Arnold's psychic/astral form has entered the room.
The water again turns super-duper hot on her, but this time the shower head follows her as she tries to dodge the water spray. She tries to turn the heat down, but the dial will not turn. Neither can she open the door to get out. Lots of screaming and thrashing about ensues as she is horribly burned and scalded. She eventually crashes through the glass door (which has somehow completely changed in appearance – before it was slightly blurry, now it has a checkered pattern on it) and falls to the floor, burned, scalded and now sliced to ribbons from all that broken glass. There is a brief shot of some bloody boobs as she collapses.
The next scene shows her body being taken away by the coroner while Lieutenants Morgan and Anderson and Sgt. Marv Sowash go over the scene. They are puzzled by the circumstances around another strange death. The shower door was jammed and severe burns obviously contributed to the woman's death…yet the evidence shows that the water heater was not malfunctioning. The old guy that she was caring for was in no position to harm her and the bathroom was locked from the inside. So it had to have been an accident, right? Morgan has a gut feeling and wants Sowash to review the facts over the death of Dr. Taylor, in case they missed something and these two cases are related.
We see Sowash driving down the road on his way back to the woods to check out the scene of the previous death. There is some light "comedy" when he uses his police radio to speak to a woman in dispatch who he is apparently screwing on the side, before the police chief's voice can be heard, chastising him for using police equipment to "sort out" his sex life. D'oh! Let me note right now that Sowash is played by Greydon Clark, the man that will go on to direct such classics as Satan's Cheerleaders, Without Warning, Joysticks, Uninvited (the monster cat movie) and Dark Future among many others. Thanks for the good cinematic times, Mr. Clark!
As he drives, he passes Arnold's mother's house. At the window stands Arnold himself. Now he is having another vision. This time it appears to be a memory of when Sowash – as a beat cop – arrested Arnold. Why blame Sowash? The man was just doing his job! He didn't neglect Arnold's mother or testify against him in court like Taylor did. This poor schmuck doesn't deserve to die. Maybe he is due for a severe ass-beating due to the truly godawful, horrendous and vomit-inducing apparel he is wearing, but die? Nope. Seriously, the suit he has on is something I would not want to be caught dead in. I think it was in fashion for about five minutes in the mid 70's. It truly is hideous.
So as Sowash races down the street, a motorcycle cop clocks him going over the speed limit and lights him up. Sowash drives on a bit, but with the cycle in pursuit, he decides it is best if he slows down and lets the other cop know who he is. Alas, the car won't slow down! He jams down on the brake but the car only increases in speed! He tries to call out to the cycle cop for help, explaining that he cannot control the car, but the cycle cop just keeps waving at him to pull over! Ha!
By now he is on the twisting roads in the hills and the motorcycle cop crashes when he is unable to navigate a turn at such high speed. Sowash continues on and as his car careens down the road, he sees the image of Arnold in his rear view mirror, sitting in the back seat. He turns his head, but the back seat is empty. He looks in the mirror again and there is Arnold! The car continues to race around and unable to get the door open and jump out, Sowash accompanies it over a cliff. KAPOW.
Later Morgan is debriefing the motorcycle cop, who explains what he saw. He wasn't able to make out what Sowash was saying, but he felt that the other man had been screaming for help. He adds that it did not look like Sowash had his hands on the wheel of the car when he sideswiped him. The cycle cop leaves and Lt. Anderson comes in, saying that the car showed no sign of mechanical failure. Anderson has Sowash's personal file and Morgan decides to look it over, in hopes of finding a connection between Dr. Taylor, Nurse Burnson and the late Sgt. Sowash.
Looking things over, he sees that Sowash was the arresting officer in the Arnold Masters case. Additionally, the late Dr. Taylor was the court appointed psychiatrist at Arnold Masters' trial. That only leaves nurse Burnson to link to Arnold, who Morgan notes was just released from prison the day before. What? It's only the next day after he got out of the clink and Arnold has already offed three people with his new astral projection abilities? He isn't wasting any time, is he?
Night comes and Morgan pays a visit to Arnold's place. He knocks on the door, but there is no answer. He knocks again and the door eases open. Just when he is about to step in, Arnold appears behind him, startling him. Morgan introduces himself as a police officer and asks to talk with him, so Arnold invites him inside and offers him a drink. Morgan opts for milk.
Morgan quickly gets to why he is there, asking if Arnold has read any recent newspapers and knows of the recent deaths. Arnold says yes. Morgan quickly outlines how the three dead people could be tied to him. Arnold realizes how it looks, but chalks it all up to coincidence, since all the deaths appear to be accidental. He says that the police would not want to wrongly accuse him of a crime, again, adding that perhaps Sowash should not have been driving so fast. Morgan finishes his milk and goes to leave, but reveals that in no news story was speed mentioned as a factor in Sowash's death. Arnold believes that justice caught up with the three dead folks. When Morgan wonders aloud if justice will be catching up with any others, Arnold just replies with "We'll have to wait and see, won't we?"
The next day Morgan has his partner Anderson make up a list of anyone connected to Arnold's trial that may be a potential target. He also authorizes a tap on Arnold's phone and twenty-four hour surveillance on him. Dr. Scott from the institution joins him as he heads out to tail Arnold. They catch up with Arnold as he enters Lemonowski's butcher shop to buy some meat. Morgan grills Scott on Arnold's behavior in prison, but she tells him that he always maintained his innocence and never vowed revenge of any kind.
Later, in the stakeout house, Morgan, Anderson and Scott watch Arnold through a telescope as he sits in his chair and feeds his cat. Anderson notes that Arnold sat in that chair earlier for three hours and never made a move. As they watch, Arnold seems to fall asleep. They make a phone call to wake him up, but he does not stir. They continue to let the phone ring, but Arnold has lapsed into one of his psychic trances and cannot hear it.
We get a brief look of who Arnold is thinking about now before we see that same man driving down the road, talking to someone on a car phone. Now, don't think for one moment that the car phone looks anything like the mobile phones we have today. It looks just like the standard phone we had back in the 70's, only he has one in his car. What it is using to connect with other lines is something I do not know. I think this was before the satellites were put into place that we use now, so either it is connecting via radio or the back end of that car is trialing one really, really, really long phone cord.
Anyway, the guy in the car is Harvey B. Sanders and he seems to be into real estate. He is developing a property where rental units are being constructed and he stops off at the jobsite to see how things are going. Harvey seems to be quite the asshole. He's constantly talking to someone on his car phone about his deals, complaining about one thing or another. He visits the jobsite solely because he feels that without constant supervision the workers will screw him over. When he gets there, he dictates into a recorder a message to his secretary detailing how annoyed he is with little details and threatening legal action against those who have failed him.
There doesn't appear to be anyone on the site today and as Harvey walks around, he is constantly talking into his recorder, making notes on changes that need to be made. As he does so, he fails to see a hook hanging from a crane as it slowly swings over and latches onto a huge concrete cornerstone with his name chiseled into the side. The crane lifts the block high in the air and begins to track Harvey as he walks around, now gleefully singing Giuseppe Verdi's La Donna e Mobile. Just as he builds to a crescendo, the block is released above him and SPLAT. Scratch one asswipe.
A short time later, Arnold wakes from his trance and answers the phone, which has been ringing nonstop for who knows how long. When he answers, Dr. Scott greets him and feeds him a story about how she is in town for one day and would like to drop by to see how he is doing. He agrees and she makes plans to stop by in fifteen minutes.
She arrives at his place and asks how he is doing. He says he is doing well. She sees the amulet around his neck and asks to see it. He refuses. She recognizes it as having once belonged to Emilio. He says that it belongs to him now. He decides to make some tea, despite her not wanting any. About now, Lt. Morgan comes through the front door and says that Dr. Scott needs to go with him. Arnold seems angry she is working with the police, but says that she needs to go with Morgan as the Lieutenant has a "real emergency." As Morgan and Scott, leave, the former is convinced that Arnold somehow knows what has recently transpired.
Later Morgan and Scott are listening to the recording Harvey Sanders was making when he got flattened by that cornerstone. They wonder how a locked and unattended crane could have dropped it on poor Harvey. Dr. Scott admits to being interested in the case now. They move on to calling each other by their first names and he invites her to dinner at his place.
After dinner, she compliments him on his cooking and they tell each other about their pasts and what led them to the careers they have now. Not one to waste any time, she tells him that they should just go to bed and she'll meet him there when he has finished his wine. "I'm finished!" he remarks, following her. HA! Let's hope for her sake that the wine is the only thing he finishes quickly.
Later, after all the kinky monkey sex that no doubt took place, Dr. Scott climbs out of bed to get a glass of water, Morgan still snoozing away in post coital bliss. In the kitchen she sees the image of Arnold a few feet away. He says that he has been watching her and ignores her questions when she asks if he had anything to do with the recent murders. He says that he watched her have sex with Morgan and wished that it had been him in bed with her instead. Long about now Morgan appears to see if she is all right. The image of Arnold has vanished. Dr. Scott says she wants to go to where the cops are watching Arnold's house and she wants to go right NOW. Well, I hope she plans on putting on her pants first.
Pow. Just like that we're over at the surveillance site, where the cops on duty tell Dr. Scott that Arnold has been asleep in his chair the entire night and has not moved until about fifteen minutes ago. Dr. Scott is upset, as she knows she saw Arnold in Morgan's house despite him being in his chair all night. She has a colleague that she wants to consult, so she and Morgan head out.
We now jump to a university class room where that colleague, a Dr. Gubner, is showing the pair of them a series of slides and talking about how everything has an energy aura. He goes on to explain that many in the parapsychology field believe that the energy forces within a person can be controlled and even projected across great distances. There is a lot of talk about psychic phenomenon and it ends up with Gubner accompanying Morgan and Scott to the surveillance site to watch Arnold as he sits in his chair, deep within a trance.
They decide to have a closer look, so the three of them head over to Arnold's house and barge in, under the pretense that when he did not answer their calls, they became concerned for him and entered. They find Arnold in his chair, unresponsive to any external stimuli. They examine him and determine that he has no pulse and is not breathing. He's in the same state he was in when they almost performed an autopsy on him at the institution. Medically, he can be considered to be dead. Gubner even sticks a pin in his hand which elicits no response. Scott calls attention again to the amulet that Arnold inherited from Emilio. Gubner says that all they can do is wait for Arnold to return to his body.
Speaking of Arnold, deep within his mind (wherever it may be) he is having a vision of Lemonowski the butcher murdering his mother with a cleaver. The butcher! What the hell did that poor guy do, sell his mom some bad lamb chops? Why murder this guy? Hell, I still don't know why he murdered that last guy, Harvey B. Sanders. The movie has never shown any connection between them. EDIT: It turns out Sanders was his shyster lawyer, so he was totally deserving of that cornerstone landing on him…just for being a lawyer, mind you.
Over at his shop, the butcher is selling some meat to a customer, played by a pre Touched by an Angel (and somewhat smaller) Della Reese. The two snap at each other as the transaction takes place, with the butcher trying to cheat her by secretly placing his hand on the scale when weighing the very fatty looking meat. Maybe that is why Arnold dislikes the guy: he cheats his customers. Still, I don't see why that is any reason to murder the poor slob. Ass whoop? Sure. Kill? Nope. Or maybe it's cuz the guy is raging asshole. He comes unglued when she pays with food stamps. I'm not sure why, as there is a big sign right on the display case window that clearly reads, "We accept food stamps." She threatens to report him to the "food and welfare people" for his business practices as well as the NAACP for his racist comments. After much yelling and screaming on both their parts, she leaves and he closes the shop for the night, though he doesn't lock the door (convenient for later on).
He heads into the back where there are large sides of beef and pork hanging from hooked chains. He pulls one along the track in which the chain is set and takes it over to a station where it can be further cut up to make chops, steaks, whatever. He turns to get another, but the next side of meat on the track is moving in his direction by itself. It comes swinging his way and as he tries to dodge out of the way, his leg hits the switch on one of the machines. The slab of beef bumps into him and he is pushed hard, his hand going straight into the now active meat grinder. Ouch, I hate it when then happens.
So he screams in agony as his hand is turned into hamburger. A large press comes down and squishes his arm flat and then we see a band saw start up. Now either it is part of a machine where it is moving towards him, or he is on some type of moving table and is approaching the saw blade. Either way, his immediate future looks to be very, very bad.
Back at Arnold's place, he wakes up to find Morgan, Scott and Gubner in his room. The three confront him and tell him that they know he is using some sort of psychic phenomenon to kill people. He doesn't outright deny it, perhaps because he knows there is no physical proof linking him to any of the deaths. Gubner warns him that he might not be able to control this ability, but Arnold asks them all to leave. As they head out, Arnold tells Morgan that there are good deals to be had at Lemonowski's butcher shop, with "fresh cuts" available.
Morgan and Lt. Anderson race to the butcher shop and run inside. Funny, I thought Lemonowski was closed. Good thing he left the door unlocked. Anyway, after calling out to the butcher they head into the back. What should come swinging their way, dangling from a chain? Why it's Lemonowski's mutilated and headless body.
At the police station, Morgan, Scott and Gubner discuss their options on what to do with Arnold. Morgan then remembers that when in his trances, Arnold can be deemed medically dead. Morgan then says he doesn't need the others' help anymore and runs out. Scott and Gubner think he intends to kill Arnold, so they wish to try and convince Arnold to accept their protection. Of course now that Arnold knows that everyone is on to him, who is gonna get killed first?
Note - It is at this point that the movie enters its final segment, so if any of you really feel the need to watch this film and not know the ending ahead of time, skip the rest of this section.
At Arnold's place he is entering another trance, this time fantasizing about having sex with Dr. Scott. While he is out of his body cavorting around in psychic form, Morgan brings the medical examiner to Arnold's place and has him declared dead, even having the man sign the death certificate right then and there. Arnold's body is taken away by the coroner, in a station wagon of all things. Scott and Gubner arrive too late to stop it. After Morgan leaves with Arnold's body, Gubner realizes that Arnold was not wearing his amulet and races into Arnold's house.
Now, one would think that if Arnold's body was no longer in physical contact or proximity to his magic amulet, that he'd wake right up from his trance, but nope. I guess once you're in a trance, you're in until you decide to wake up.
Morgan has Arnold's body taken straight to the crematorium and immediately loaded into an oven. Meanwhile, Scott and Gubner search Arnold's house. She finds his old boyhood room, covered in dust and cobwebs. Gubner calls to her from another room, but when she races to see what he has found, she finds him dead, his throat slashed. Nearby is the astral form of Arnold, which I must say, looks a little haggard. He looks like he hasn't slept in 20 years. His skin is wrinkled, his hair has strands of gray and looks much poofier and he has what looks like blood running from his eyes. Not what I'd call a good look.
Arnold's astral form picks up and dons the amulet and then begins talking about what happened to his mother. Just about when it seems like he might visit some harm on Dr. Scott, the cheap wood coffin containing his body is pushed into the furnace at the crematorium. He senses what is happening and begins to stumble around and gasp. Finally he lets out a horrible scream. Over in that burning coffin, he awakes in his body to find himself being burned alive and proceeds to scream some more. A lot. Eventually he is reduced to ash.
At his home, his astral form has vanished, leaving the amulet, which has fallen out the window and retrieved by his pet cat. We freeze frame on the cat as it approaches the amulet. What, is the cat going to seek revenge on those who killed his owner? Are there going to be psychic manifestations of cat auras running around town trying to trip people or claw them up? I hope not, cuz that sequel would suck.
Roll credits.
The End.
Shadow's Thoughts
This film is surprisingly watchable. At first glance, it may seem like a potential bore, as having the killer projecting his psychic force doesn't exactly scream frightening or action packed, but the end result is actually somewhat entertaining. In fact, every time I watch the movie, I am surprised at how fast it moves and how quickly it is over.
To really help the pace move along, the film seems to be comprised of several set pieces with brief moments of plot mixed in between. After introducing us to the main character of Arnold and setting up the premise of the film, things get underway immediately with the first murder scene. This is followed relatively fast by the next one and the next one and so on. Each murder is carried out in a different way and though not as creative as other films, there is enough individuality to each death to make it seem like things are not just being repeated.
The investigation into the deaths and the eventual scrutiny placed on Arnold happens between these death scenes, but they are concise and move things along quite fast. In fact, the jump from "what is going on?" to full on "psychic projection is at work here!" happens awfully fast and nobody seems to really question it too much. One minute Dr. Scott thinks little of Arnold's involvement in the murders and the next she is convinced of what is going on. That is one aspect I found a little hard to swallow, as Lt Morgan, with little persuasion, buys right into the psychic projection angle and is instantly off and running dangerously close to vigilante land. I would have found it slightly more realistic if they had at least wrestled with the idea of psychic projection at first, before grudgingly coming to realize that there was no other option to explain things.
Speaking of Morgan, I found him to be both real and somewhat unreal. Yes, I suspect a real police detective will be frustrated by the lack of clues and eager to find something – anything – on which to build a case, but Morgan's stubborn refusal to let anything go almost borders on cliché- the dedicated cop who will do anything to see that the guilty party is brought to justice. He almost seems to take it personally that these murders are being committed in his jurisdiction and at times his anger is palpable.
Likewise, Arnold is another study in contrasts. At first, it is almost impossible to not sympathize with the poor man when you hear his sad story. The injustice of it all is infuriating and one could easily imagine how they would feel in similar circumstances. Yet, somewhere along the line, Arnold crosses from a sympathetic, broken man to a mad killer that engenders nothing but loathing. Sure, everyone fantasizes about getting back at those who have wronged us, and we can understand his desire to hurt those that he feels contributed to his mother's demise, but he doesn't just stop once that is done. The power he now possesses has become to alluring to him, too easy to use in order to lash out at anyone who has annoyed him, such as the poor butcher. Yes, that guy was an asshole, but did he really deserve to die in such a horrible manner? Of course not, and it is at that point that the audience realizes that Arnold can longer be sympathized with, but detested and pitied. He becomes a monster in his quest for vengeance, very much reflecting the quote from Nietzsche, "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
The lack of any fancy special FX may seem like a negative, but in truth, one may not even notice this. While there is a bit of blood, there is no gore that would require any sort of makeup effects. The music is comprised of your standard 70's spooky themes and possibly because I was a small child during the time and much more impressionable when initially exposed to it, but I find the music to be effective in conveying a sense of doom and dread. However, the number of times I watched this movie for this review was upwards of seven or eight – and by the end the music that played during Nurse Burnson's little dance and subsequent shower is now firmly lodge in my brain and won't let go.
Overall, Psychic Killer is not a fantastic movie, but it is certainly better than one might expect. It moves quickly and keeps the viewer engaged throughout its running time. You can't ask too much more than that, right?
To See:
Action – There are a brief few moments with a runaway car being manipulated by an external force and a motorcycle cop who is chasing after it. It's not exactly thrilling, but there is enough excitement to warrant this icon. Barely.
Crazed Killers - Arnold starts out killing people as a way to seek revenge. By the end, he is offing people in sadistic, messy ways for just being annoying (anyone named Kardashian had better watch out).
Dancing – In one brief scene, Nurse Burnson starts stripping and doing this funky little dance to the music from a small radio. Her movements made me think that perhaps she had ants crawling over her, but nope.
Extreme Violence - Lots of people killed in violent, gruesome ways. While nothing is ever shown in detail and most everything happens out of view, it's obvious that several left behind quite the sticky mess.
Nudity - There is some brief nudity when Nurse Burnson strips and then takes a shower. Don't expect to see very much, and certainly not for very long. Blink and you'll miss it. In fact, forget I even mentioned it.
Sex - Lt. Morgan and Dr. Scott work together to see how Arnold is connected to the murders. Working together also means dinner, wine and some late night boom-boom. Of course, this happens off screen, so don't get your hopes up.
|Movie Stats:
Shadow's Commentary:
Alcoholic drinks consumed: 5
Glasses of milk consumed: 1
Cigarettes smoked: 1
Gunshots fired: 1
Naked blondes: 2
Bare boobs: 2
Bare butts: 1
Vehicle crashes: 2
Trances entered by Arnold: 8
Psychic trips taken by Arnold: 7
Actors who were also in Creature from the Black Lagoon: 2
Min – Cue the violin music.
Shadow's Drinking Game: Everytime Arnold has a vision in black and white, chug a beer.
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Doctors at the mental hospital discuss recent events.
Cormmanger: "Patients jumping over walls, autopsies performed
on patients while they're still alive…do you have any idea
what would have happened if we'd killed Masters before that paper
came out?"
Shadow's Comment: Yeah, I know I really hate it when I get killed. It tends to ruin the day.
Arnold's astral projection talks to Dr. Scott about her late night activities.
Arnold: "I watched you make love to him. I wish it had been me."
Comment: Wait,
I'm confused. He wishes he'd been with her...or with him?
He was in prison after all.
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Film & Me
I can actually remember seeing this movie in the theater as a young child. In May of 1975, when this movie had its North American release, I was six years old. I have no memory whatsoever of TV ads for this film, I just remember going to see it with my dad. It must have been something that he wanted to see and since I loved going to movies, I went with him. It was a good thing my mom stayed home, because she would have chewed my dad out for taking me to such a film at that age. I can clearly remember that we arrived late for the film (this happened a lot as my dad was always running late) and came into the movie when Arnold and Emilio are having their first rooftop conversation. I remember that I clearly understood what was going on in the movie, with Arnold using some amulet to send his mind across space to kill people who he thought had contributed to his mother's death. Though these elements were clear to me, some of the details were lost on a six-year old. I remember thinking that Arnold was mistakenly cremated while in his trance and not that it was purposefully done. I also recall looking over the poster for the film in the lobby afterwards and noticing that the Harvey Sanders character was depicted as wearing pants rather than the shorts he was sporting in the movie. I caught the film on TV a time or two in the late 70's and early 80's, but did not have a chance to see it in full again until just a few years ago. In my mind I recalled the movie as being rather crappy, but as an adult, I found it to be halfway entertaining, especially since I could now pick up on subtle nuances to which my childhood mind was oblivious.
Shadow's rating: Five Tombstones
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The new Storck TIX, Storck's first ever cyclocross bike, has arrived at road.cc for a world exclusive review. Before we get it out in the mud, here's a quick look over the bike while it's still all clean and shiny.
We told you about the TIX – This is Cross – a couple of weeks ago, that article based largely on a couple of photographs that we managed to get hold of. Now Storck have given us more information.
"The new TIX frame is a completely new, ground up project," say Storck. "After almost 12 months' research and using considerable experience from the road and mountain bike market, the Storck team decided to produce a carbon frame from the beginning that is different in every detail."
The TIX is a disc brake only design with thru-axles rather than open dropouts, the idea being that a thru-axle can better handle the discs. Like most high-end performance bikes these days, the bike is built with a tapered head tube – 1 1/8in to 1 1/2in – for more stiffness up front.
The TIX comes with a longer head tube than that of Storck's road bikes – 15cm on our 55cm frame – the idea being that you won't have to use a stack of headset spacers to get front end height with the danger of decreasing the frame's precision. It's still a pretty short head tube, though.
Storck slope the top tube considerably downwards so that there's a considerable amount of seatpost extension out of the frame. The reason for this, as we speculated in our earlier article, is to offer more comfort.
Storck consider the fork to be a key feature here, saying that it provides a significant amount of flex both for riding comfort and, even more importantly, for control of the bike. They claim that it will flex only when forces come from the ground; it won't bend as a result of braking because they've stiffened it up to resist those forces.
"The lateral stiffness is even… higher to provide scalpel knife precision and control for steering," say Storck.
The TIX we have here at road.cc is built around a pre-production frame and some things will be changed on the final version. For example, the clearance between the fork and the frame will be increased slightly to ensure the two parts don't contact. The internal diameter of the seat tube is due to change as well to stop any seatpost slippage, and the seat tube bottle cage mount will be lower on production versions of the bike.
Our review bike hit the road.cc Scales of Truth at 8.03kg (17.66lb) with Storck giving an official frame only weight of 940g. It is built up with a Shimano Ultegra Di2 groupset complete with Shimano's hydraulic disc brakes while the wheels are DT Swiss R 23 Splines with knobbly Schwalbe Rocket Ron tyres.
The TIX uses Storck's own 4-bolt anodized alloy stem and their own RBC220 carbon handlebar.
The MLP 150 seatpost is the same as the one on the Storck Aernario Platinum road bike that we reviewed recently. It's designed to be super-comfortable with lots of vibration damping and flex to smooth the ride. It comes fitted with a Selle Italia SLS Monolink saddle.
Due to a delay in some Shimano parts, the first production bikes will come with Shimano mechanical rather than Di2 electronic shifting, and cable rather than hydraulic disc brakes. In this configuration, the complete bike will be £3,199 and it'll be available for September delivery.
When Shimano mechanical shifting/hydraulic braking becomes available, the complete TIX will be £3,599. This is slated for December.
It's clear Storck are aiming the TIX at the performance end of the cyclocross market, with a light and stiff carbon frame, short head tube and lack of mudguard and rack mounts. And with the bolt-thru axles, there really are very few direct rivals. The closest comparison is the recently released Norco Threshold Disc, also offering bolt-thru axles on a carbon frame. Or there is Ridley's latest X-Night Disc, but the Belgian company have opted to use regular quick release axles. Giant have embraced the bolt-thru technology, but only on the front of their new TCX frame which is offered in a carbon version.
We'll work on a price for the exact build that we have here. In the meantime, our man Dave Arthur has just left the building for his first ride aboard the TIX with the words, "It is a lovely bike. Almost a shame to get it muddy. Oh well!"
We're gutted for the poor guy! He'll be back with a ride report pretty soon. He'll have to be – Storck want their bike back next Wednesday so yer man Dave has a busy few days ahead of him.
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Polycom is the world leader in video and teleconferencing solutions. As an agency, we are responsible for the strategy and its execution in B2B sector. Our activities include creation, video production, content creation, as well as media planning and buying. The key objective of our activities was to educate the target group on modern communication, and to present the video conferencing tools from the portfolio: Polycom RealPresence Medialign, Polycom RealPresence Centro, Polycom RealPresence Trio.
The strategic part of our cooperation was based on the segmentation of the target group and subsequent selection of appropriate channels for reaching and working out messages that would give added value to potential customers.
As a result, we chose: AdWords, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. Our communication is based on temporary campaigns. Among others: "Polycom - Open Days" - an event which allows interested parties to participate in free presentations of Polycom products, test them and talk to a brand representative. "Polycom - Global Working anywhere survey" - a report on the ability to work from anywhere in the world, and a webinar "Polycom - Presentations without cables".
Thanks to a jointly developed strategy and campaigns responding to the needs of the customers, Polycom has extended our cooperation and expanded selected activities with another CEE market.
Type of activities
Promotional campaign (PPC) of Polycom open days for the B2B segment
Date range: 19.06.2017 - 14.12.2017
Promotional goals
- Invitation to test products in the company's office in Warsaw
- Increasing the number of views of videos on YouTube
- Promotion of Polycom and its products on the Polish market
Types of ads
- Video ads displayed on YouTube
- Video ads displayed on Facebook
The goal of the campaign was to promote the possibility of testing the latest video conferencing solutions among large companies and corporations. We have created and promoted five films about Polycom products with an invitation to the company's Warsaw office. As a result, the company's recognition in Poland has increased.
The number of ad impressions: 8 704 401
Number of visits to the site: 20 460
Video views: 55,586
Interactions (watching a video or clicking an ad): 96 046
Interaction rate: 1.1%


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A new study says that as many as half of military spouses who think they have secondary PTSD don't.
The study, conducted out of a George Mason University in Northern Virginia, found that most spouses who think they have secondary PTSD are instead suffering from stress from traumatic events in their own lives or from the stress of taking care of a their servicemember.
The label "secondary PTSD" has likely become misused, Keith Renshaw, the study's author, said because spouses use it as a catch-all term for any intense stress. But misidentifying the problem can lead to incorrect mental health treatment -- and that can have even greater consequences, he said.
Before writing this story I would have, if asked, claimed to have some secondary PTSD. I'm certainly not in the business of trying to mislabel anything -- but, like many spouses, I just didn't understand the specifics of the problem.
My problem is this: I regularly relive, have dreams about and get caught up in unpleasant daydreams over the huge number of military memorials I attended over my husband's last deployment. Because it has to do with my husband's military service, in a way, I have called it "secondary PTSD." But according to Renshaw's explanation, I was wrong.
Secondary post-traumatic stress disorder has become a common catch-all label in the military community for the intense stress many spouses feel while living with a veteran suffering from PTSD. Unlike caretaker stress or stress from traumatic events in their own lives, secondary PTSD has sudden, specific characteristics including vivid dreams about the servicemember's traumatic event or avoiding reminders of that event, Renshaw said.As the story says, this study has MilSpouse and family advocates worried that even fewer spouses will seek or get mental health help than already do. Rather than being overdiagnosed, Brannan Vines, founder of FamilyofaVet.com, believes the problem is grossly under diagnosed.
Vines told me that she has been working tirelessly since 2007 to teach spouses to recognize that they are stressed, that secondary PTSD is real and that they need mental health help. In her view, saying that the disease is overdiagnosed is a huge step backwards.
"In my opinion, through my work, secondary PTSD is not overly diagnosed, it's underdiagnosed," she said. "My concern with this study is that they are about to put out that we don't need to be monitoring caregivers for PTSD. And caregivers that are already having trouble getting people to take them seriously are going to be told 'well this study says you just have caregiver stress, you just need to relax.' "Renshaw, of course, said that's exactly what he does not want to have happen. He said his concern is not in shooting down the ability of spouses to get mental health help -- but in making sure the help they get is appropriate to the disease they have. Self diagnosing or using buzz words to point caretakers towards a secondary PTSD label doesn't do anyone any good.
So spouses -- what do you think? Is secondary PTSD the major unrecognized problem Vines finds it to be or is it, like Renshaw's study says, overused and misunderstood?


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13 Going on 30
A girl makes a wish on her thirteenth birthday, and wakes up the next day as a thirty-year-old woman.
27 Dresses
After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in..
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A shy girl, outcasted by her peers and sheltered by her religious mother, unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her sen..
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A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
During a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess.
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A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, which escapes containment and goes on a killing..
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Jeff, a famous children's television icon, struggles to retain his sanity as his family falls apart.
Love & Other Drugs
A young woman suffering from Parkinson's befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer in 1990s Pittsburgh.
Love Happens
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A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together. His attempts to become an adult are m..
Maynard is a beloved local businessman who is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The si..
The 15:17 to Paris
Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.
The Descendants
A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
The Wedding Planner
Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most ..
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Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wres..
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will a ATI Radeon 9200SE AGP 128M DDR VGA S-Video Video Card fit my dell dimension 4600c well i know i have the slot be can i put it in my computer and be able to shut my case
According to one review you would need a low profile card.
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You answered your own question. Did you have that card lying around or did you just buy it, and why did you install it. Was something wrong with the onboard video ?
my onboard video card is 32mb and want run all my games and i am on ebay looking at a ATI Radeon 9200SE AGP 128M DDR VGA S-Video Card and my last video card i had was a 256 mb video card but i coulden close my computer case and i am just wandering if i can put it in my computer and be able to close the case
Like Richard said, you need a Low Profile card. I wouldn't advise buying from Ebay. Take a look at these from Newegg. I deal with them all the time and they're very reliable.
holy crap those r nice thanks
You're welcome. Good Luck.
"holy crap those r nice"
All those cards suck for gaming. The 9200SE that you mentioned is slower than both the FX5200 & GF 6200, plus it doesn't support DX9. None of them are anywhere near as good as the Radeon 9550 you mucked up. Next time, unplug the power cord before you go messing around inside the case.
Here's an AGP benchmark chart from over 7 yrs ago. The Radeon 9550 is roughly equal to the FX5700. The Radeon 9200SE isn't on the list but it's slower than the 9600SE (SE = Slow Edition):


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August 28, 2017
Last week I posted that our cat, Peanut Butter, had suddenly gone blind. It was traumatic for the cat and worrisome for the rest of the family. At that time, the vet stressed that her vision might not return, so we prepared accordingly. But I'm excited to say that the blood pressure medicine seems to be helping! She is still obviously visually challenged, but she's seeing some out of her left eye. The right one hasn't had a change, but the left eye is improving.
How can we tell? She's started climbing onto things again, albeit carefully. When her vision was at its worst, she would only creep along walls. She has been venturing out into rooms and even climbed up in to her favorite chair this morning. You can see her curled up in it in the photo above. Last week, she wouldn't have taken the leap; instead she would have simply slept beside the chair. I'll take any kind of improvement for Peanut Butter, and this is an exciting one.
I've also noticed that Peanut Butter, who is moody on even her best days, is becoming more pleasant again. During the time when she was in pain, then when she lost her eyesight, she attacked and bit me, precipitating an ER visit for me She also lashed out at anyone close to her, including our dog Soldier. Within the last 24 hours Peanut Butter has mellowed. She's purring again, rubbing against us and has even cuddled up to the dog for an afternoon nap. It seems like Peanut Butter's improved vision has also given her back her confidence and an improved mood!
Glad she is showing some improvement. Hope it continues.


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I have to admit, I haven't always been the happiest of people, and actually suffered quite badly from depression in my younger years. I had a breakdown in my early twenties and was consequently on strong anti-depressants for the majority of the following decade, which in hindsight I strongly suspect destroyed my ability to feel great happiness. I never experience the highs that people talk about, only lows or 'normal'.
At this moment in time, I am content, which suits my life right now. Saying that, my life is pretty boring, and this is because I have had to cut out a lot of the stuff that affected my emotions negatively, to basically avoid becoming unhappy again.
So I have to admit, many of you may not agree with my tips for a happy life because you aren't as boring as me. 😊
1. Avoiding drama. I hate drama and conflict. It just doesn't agree with me whatsoever, and makes me feel miserable, confused and uncertain. In the past, I have been dragged into unnecessary drama for no reason other than certain people wanted to take the blame off themselves. I must have seemed like an easy target at the time, and in the end I just withdrew from those people.
I find it difficult to understand those who claim to hate drama, yet surround themselves with volatile people or situations and then moan when the shit hits the fan. No thanks. I'll stick to my boring existence.
2. Staying positive. Okay, I admit, sometimes this is very difficult to do, especially when you are at a low point. Everything seems bad when you are in a depressive state, and thinking positively is easier said than done. In this case, please seek help and speak to somebody. You are never alone.
I was very lucky to be able to drag myself out of those murky depths after so many years of being down. It wasn't easy. The worse I felt about myself, the more shit I attracted, and I seemed to be stuck in a vicious circle. My relationships were a joke, and it took living with the most negative person I had ever met for 6 years to realise that it wasn't good for me at all. He dragged me right down into a pit of misery, and after hitting rock bottom, I decided enough was enough. I didn't need anybody to make me feel like rubbish. I could do that all by myself. My self-esteem, or lack of it, has always been to blame for my passiveness and ridiculous life choices, and my emotional fragility back then made it so easy for that one negative person to drag me down and make me believe that second best and heartbreak was all I deserved. These days, I try to stay away from negativity because it just isn't good for me.
3. Believing in yourself. I have to admit, this is something I haven't quite conquered yet, but I'm getting there. As I read somewhere recently "Nothing will work if you don't believe in it", and this is so true. Okay, maybe not when it comes to time travel, or turning water into wine (unfortunately!) But believing in yourself and your abilities can take you far. Intelligence and skill doesn't matter in the slightest if you don't have the confidence to see it through. So many of us allow self-doubt, vulnerability, and uncertainty to plague our thoughts, and this can get in the way of success. We just need a confident outlook, and this can only come from ourselves. Instead of telling yourself why it won't work, tell yourself why it will. I suppose that explains it as succinctly as possible. I'm working on this. 😊
4. Do things that you like. This may sound very obvious, but it's amazing how many people allow themselves to get bogged down by boring chores and hated jobs, and forget to use their spare time constructively. Don't forget the things that make you happy, whether that may be a cherished hobby, spending time with the people you love, or visiting your favourite places. Even stamp collecting, train spotting, or hibernating at home to recharge the batteries, as I so often like to do. If it makes you happy, then do it. Although try to keep it legal. 😊
5. Stay healthy. Now I have to admit, healthy people really irritate me. Dieting and calorie counting bores me to tears, and the gym is most definitely against my religion. However, secretly, I admire the motivation it takes to do any of the above. I'd actually love to be one of those people, but I'm far too laid back about my lifestyle. Since hitting the big 4-0 though, I have begun to see the benefits of living a healthier lifestyle. More exercise, less wine. Going for walks in the countryside, surrounded by beautiful scenery. Getting enough sleep. Laughing more. I've been trying to include more protein into my diet, and less fat. But I'm not completely cutting out on the things I like, because that would defeat the object of number 4. I'm just taking more of an interest in my health, by cutting back on the bad things and doing more of the good things. This makes me feel better about myself, which in turn lifts my spirits.
I may sound like I know what I'm talking about, but I really don't. Everybody has their own idea of what makes them happy, and these are my own. I'm just trying to lead a better life than I have in previous years. 😊


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Idaho's House Concurrent Resolution 60 (PDF), introduced by the House Education Committee on March 12, 2018, would, if enacted, delete a single standard — ESS 3-4-1 — from the proposed science standards currently under legislative review.
ESS 3-4-1 explicitly mentions environmental impacts of energy use, including "air pollution from burning of fossil fuels." As NCSE previously reported, the House Education Committee previously voted to remove ESS 3-4-1, along with all of the "supporting content" material throughout the standards, even though ESS 3-4-1 was not among the performance expectations standards rejected by the committee, and then by the legislature, in 2017.
The Senate Education Committee, however, voted to approve the standards as submitted, and any changes to the standards would require agreement from both chambers of the legislature before it adjourns on March 27, 2018.


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Salvaterra has exhibited widely, at the Griffin Museum, Musee de Le'elysee among many others. She was runner up for the 2009-2010 Berenice Abbott Prize for Emerging Photographers. reveal "a fine line between sanity and insanity".
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Bath String Quartet
The Bath String Quartet has enjoyed performing at a wide variety of private functions including weddings, birthday parties and corporate dinners since its conception in January 1998.
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text: Davide Bonazzi lives in Bologna (Italy), where he was born in 1984. After he graduated from the University of Bologna, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, he studied Drawing and Illustrative techniques in Milan at the European Institute of Design and Illustration for publishing at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. Since 2008 he works as a freelance illustrator. The thing in illustration he loves the most, is the possibility to work every time on different subjects avoiding a boring routine. When he doesn't illustrate, Davide enjoys watching films, listening to music and playing football. His client list includes The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Paramount Pictures Channel, Scientific American and many others.


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