First up on the chopping block is The Clairvoyant (or Evil Mind) from 1935 starring Claude Rains, Mary Clare and Fay Wray. Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them ...until he realizes he has them in the presence of Christine, attractive daughter of a publisher, who makes Rene, his equally lovely wife, wretchedly jealous. But worse trouble comes to Maximus when he's accused of causing a disaster he predicted. youtu.be/WVl-qabf7Xs
Crazy on you by Heart youtu.be/OZuW6BH_Vak
Night has a thousand eyes in 1948 starring Gail Russell and Ed Robinson When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate? youtu.be/RH3bzUF862k
Rockwell Somebodies watching me youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY
Don't look now in 1973 starring Donald Sutherland about a married couple grieving the recent death of their little daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. youtu.be/AUWB-Kw4FiM
The Adolescents welcome to reality youtu.be/q_ZiS76jSak
From Hell starring Johnny Depp may be about Jack the Ripper but it also has the only bona fide psychic detective on our list, Inspector Abberline uses his extra-sensory powers of perception to find the murderer. Unfortunately, the murders of Jack the Ripper are not cases that can be solved by mental manipulation alone; in what sounds suspiciously like a flagrant abuse of the police expenses form, Fred recruits the help of a local prostitute and smokes a copious amount of opium to help catch his man. He may not be conventional, but he gets results, dammit! Get this man all the hookers and drugs he needs! youtu.be/yw8US3gS37w
2005 White noise starring Michael Keaton, An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave, becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions. youtu.be/haHHr5_VX7I
Faye Dunaway stars in this 1978 chiller as a successful, controversial fashion photographer haunted by psychic visions of a serial killer. Cursed with the ability to see the murders through the killer's point of view, Mars sees her associates murdered one by one. With the help of a tough police detective (Tommy Lee Jones), Mars must stop the killer before she becomes his next target. Written by John Carpenter ('Halloween') youtu.be/oz07zvBpHMM
The Final Destination movies! Each entry in the 'Final Destination' franchise finds a teen experiencing a psychic premonition about their impending doom, allowing them to cheat death and then suffer the consequences as the Grim Reaper moves in to pick off those destined to meet their maker. Imagine if death was a bastard with a real hard on for rubegoldberg machines. youtu.be/8tqJTjpeiZc
Death has a sense of humor youtu.be/c7QhpJ3DWDA
I highly recommend our next movie Nicole Kidman shines as a woman living in the dark in this creepy 2001 movie. Set in England in the days following World War II, Kidman plays Grace, a woman looking closely after her two children stricken with a disease that forbids them to be exposed to sunlight. Living out their dark days by strict rules in a country mansion with heavy curtains, Grace and the children's ordered life is upset by the arrival of three mysterious servants. At first thinking intruders have entered the house, Grace begins to wonder if the supernatural is playing against her sanity. We won't spoil the ending. youtu.be/Vu494-Dr5po
in our next movie, Stir of Echoes Kevin Bacon plays Tom Witzky, a working-class Chicago family man who doesn't believe in all that psychic hocus pocus -- that is until, on a dare, he agrees to be hypnotized at a party by his wife's sister (Illeana Douglas) and begins to see flashes of violence and the spirit of a girl who disappeared from the neighborhood months ago. I actually first watched this during a Bacon-a-thon thats right BLTs and all the Kevin Bacon films you can stand! youtu.be/OlqHp4KmofQ
I actually really really really really really like Bruce Willis, I don't know exactly why but ever since I first saw Die Hard I make a b-line for Bruce Willis movies; and I can not talk about psychics without discussing the movie Sixth Sense about a boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist played by Bruce Willis. youtu.be/ZSNyiSetZ8Y
tldr? Bruce Willis's character is dead and bloated! youtu.be/OibNcmZcF3k
Now for our lady of the day, who is one of my favorite actresses, and someone who I used to base my style off of back when my now dark hair was a blond mass of ringlets seeing as we both have a love of flowers, a ready laugh and have green eyes. This bubbly activist and mother is more than just an actress, she is a part of a great acting dynasty. She may be blond and sometimes portrayed as a little more than that but what she brings to each movie even from her very first role in altered states has been a naturalness in front of the cameras that very few actors ever possess. She makes the characters she plays come alive, with quirks and energy that even the writers knew nothing about. She, like many other child stars did go to rehab but upon getting out she instead lived with David Crosby and his wife for a year before winning a court case allowing her emancipation from her parents. She has posed for playboy, flashed David Letterman on live TV, was a model for Guess? jeans she also runs her own production company named flower productions with its goal of creation female empowered movies, she is one of the richest women in Hollywood, has created several of her own charities mostly aimed toward hunger relief and animal rescue, and in 2007 was named a UN Ambassador against hunger for their World Food Program. Have you guessed who she is yet? Drew Barrymore!
I actually really hated ET, and I'm still nto very fond of the film, however one of her early movies which I do love is her role in the 1984 psycho psychic classic Firestarter About a couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic. youtu.be/rIC1PTBiE_U
I love me some Prodigy so here it is The Prodigy Firestarter youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw
Speaking of starting fires and roasting people alive who probably deserve it this leads my to my number 2 pick for todays Psychic psychos feature, and it goes too....Carrie! This 1976 movie starring Sissy Spaceck is a stark warning to any practising school bullies: the next weedy little kid you pick on in the shower might just grow up to be a raging psychopath. Sticks and stones may break their bones, but supernatural telekinetic powers will always hurt you - particularly if they're unleashed during puberty.
Moving around household objects with the mind might sound like the behaviour of a bored poltergeist, but combined with her teenage alienation and years of bottled up rage, Carrie's psychic ability is a weapon deadlier than any firearm - even from beyond the grave. youtu.be/rLexGF8KhWc
This only leaves me with the 1983 awesome that was DEAD ZONE starring Christopher Walken One of the best adaptations of a Stephen King novel ever, this chilling tale finds Christopher Walken as New England schoolteacher Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma after a car accident to learn that his fiancée has remarried and has a child – and he has incredible psychic powers to see the past, present and future. Initially reluctant to exploit his newfound abilities, Johnny agrees to help when the police recruit him to track a killer -- and he accidentally discovers a political candidate is destined to push "the button" and ignite World War III. Martin Sheen, Tom Skerritt and Brooke Adams also star in this gripping 1983 David Cronenberg film. youtu.be/CuTeRM_8egk
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