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Psychic Killer  (1975)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 1993
SYNOPSIS: A man wrongfully jailed gets back at the system by learning astral projection. He sends his spirit out to wantonly murder anyone who's ever pissed him off. When a savvy cop and his psychiatrist ladyfriend figure out his secret, they have to find a way to stop him before he psychically kills again.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Most Ludicrous Premise
A Case of Asshole Projection
A wrongly-accused jerk learns from his mystical cellmate the art of leaving his body so he can kill any who vex him. If he can muster the force to manipulate objects, why doesn't he escape?
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Worst Special Effect
Dummy Drop
One of the Psychic Killer's victims falls from a great height. And his powers must be able to transform matter as well, since the victim clearly turns into a dummy during the fall.
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Smithee Award Winner! "Alas, Poor Yorick"
The Butcher Meats His Doom
Evidently the Psychic Killer is really ticked off over the high cost of meat, so he takes it out on the local butcher. The poor guy is in the back of his shop, closing up, when he thinks he sees one of the sides of beef move by itself. Ridiculous! But when he gets closer, the hanging beef rolls along its track and slams into him like a linebacker! Plorp! His arm goes right into the nearby industrial meat grinder. A couple of "handburgers" later, the rest of him follows. Yum!
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Best One-Liner
What School Did You Say You Went To?
The psychologist happened to spy the astral form of the killer in her living room. When her cop boyfriend is (understandably) incredulous and suggests it may have been a hallucination, she is adamant that she saw the Psychic Killer where he couldn't have been. She goes through a list of her psychological credentials, ending with, "... and I know an hallucination when I see one...!"
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Inane Dialogue
Trainspotting
You know these guys are destined for greatness. Here's the conversation they have when the Psychic Killer first meets his soon-to-be mystical mentor. They're staring aimlessly through a chain-link fence at a railroad track down below the prison. A train goes by.
Mentor: "I like trains."
PK: "Yep. That's the thing about trains. They're always going somewhere."
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"Whoops!"
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Ray Danton  
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Jim Hutton <Not Yet in Database>  
Paul Burke <Not Yet in Database>  
Julie Adams <Not Yet in Database>  
Nehemiah Persoff <Not Yet in Database>  
Neville Brand <Not Yet in Database> Tough guy in Westerns and crime dramas from the '40s through the '90s, including Reese Bennett on "Laredo," Duke in Stalag 17, and Lieutenant Kaminsky in Tora! Tora! Tora! 
Harry Holcombe <Not Yet in Database>  
Greydon Clark Sgt. Marv Sowash Writer and director of such Smithee classics as Psychic Killer and Angels' Revenge and Satan's Cheerleaders. Put himself in bit roles. 
William Bonner Ambulance Driver Seemed to get a lot of bit parts in Smithee movies in the '60s and '70s. Was in The Adventures of Flash Beaver and Black Shampoo under the pseudonym "Jack Mehoff." *cough* 
Edward Cross Old Man (uncredited) A few bit parts here and there, mainly blaxploitation. 
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