Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

That way everyone knows you are coming.

Formula movie as part the 50 Movie Pack Sci-Fi Classics DVD collections. Yes I know it is just another invisible strangler movie (title: The Astral Factor).

The story is of a deranged killer that has to kill any one the looks like his mother. To look like his mother all you have to do is look female and be in the tabloids. He was well pinned in a maximum security nut house until he discovered astral projection and other Para-psychic phenomenon. On the loose and invisible (don't we wish we all were) he is free to do the deed with impunity. However hot on his trail is Lt. Charles Barrett who suspects he is up against something more than your standard nutter.

The only redeeming value of this movie is the many actors that were not quite over the hill at the time this movie was made yet were persuaded to take part:

Robert Foxworth as Lt. Charles Barrett (The Questor Tapes (TV movie) - Questor)
Stefanie Powers as Candy Barrett (Paper Man (TV movie) - Karen McMillan)
Elke Sommer as Chris Hartman (A Shot in the Dark - Maria Gambrelli)

"The Questor Tapes" Starring: Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell

This is easily the worst invisible man movie ever made. In fact it would be up there competing for the worst movie of any topic ever made. I'm a hug fan of the invisible man genre (I've got two Listmania lists going on these stories) and there also seems to be a lot of other people out there who are as well. This movie is a disgrace to the invisibility genre though, don't waste your money. You can get this movie with nine other low budget movies (released through Payless, which you can buy in many a $2 dollar store in Australia and maybe elsewhere) for $4.95. That makes this movie 49 and a half cents but seriously it is not worth that money, I very much have buyers remorse after purchasing this.

Pathetic special effects and acting mean we don't really see anything you normally do in an invisible man movie. The directors just took the lazy approach and had the actor victims pretending they were being choked in performances where a five year old could act better. There's no items in the vicinity getting knocked over by no one that the eye can see or anything like this during the murders. A few vases get thrown at the cops but you only see their bases before their thrown. These actors obviously had none of the clearing a building scene with weapons drawn training that police have given the actors in every other police movie. It's amazing these police weren't killed by visible bad guys before they got this case. Not that the invisible man makes much of an appearance in this more about a cop whose girl wants him to get a job with better hours storyline.

How annoying is the background score and sound effects? I think they put the whole budget into making the movie's poster and had nothing left to spend on the film.

If you are wondering what the plot to this movie is all about it is basically; a guy is mentally abused by his mother who never wanted him and definitely never wanted her friends to see him. He snaps and strangles her one day and spends his days reading self help books in prison. A prison guard rips up his books and gives him a good backhand when he tries to hit him for doing so which seems to push him over the edge. Now we are left to assume he got the knowledge to become invisible from these books because there's no other reason given but the next minute he's invisible and escaped from prison. Women who testified against him are being strangled and the police put out all efforts to stop his rampage.

There's plenty of great invisible man movies out there, give this a miss and get one of those instead!