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The Oracle
USA 1985
produced by
Walter E. Sear for Reeltime
directed by Roberta Findlay
starring Caroline Capers Powers, Roger Neil, Pam La Testa, Victoria Dryden, Chris Maria De Koron, Dan Lutsky, Stacey Graves, G.Gordon Cronce, Ethel Mark, Alexandria Blade, Joan Leonard, Irma St. Paule, Einar O. Peterson, Lou Bacotti, James Styles, Lou Bartholomew, R. Allen Leider, Rafael Guadalupe, Mari Kasiner, Joe White
written by R. Allen Leider, music by Miochael Litovsky, Walter E. Sear
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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At her new apartment, Jennifer (Caroline Capers Powers) finds a
planchette - pretty much a hand with a pen - to contact the land of the
dead, and just for fun she tries it ... and really receives a message from
a certain Mr Graham and a phone number - and when she calls that number
she actually gets a Mr Graham's widow, Dorothy (Victoria Dryden) on the
other end, and learns Graham has committed suicide a month ago. Jennifer
soon becomes obsessed with the whole thing and she starts investigating -
much to the dismay of her husband Ray (Roger Neil), who thinks all of this
is bullshit. Dorothy on the other hand is much more receptive to
Jennifer's ideas ... which is a bad thing, because Dorothy, her lover
Varney (Dan Lutsky) and female thug Farkas (Pam La Testa) have actually
killed Mr Graham, and since Jennifer's investigations uncover more and
more details about Graham's death, they decide to kill her as well - first
at a New Year's party, then at a mental institution, and quite a few more
times ... but Jennifer has a helper: Mr Graham from the beyond, who has
actually used her to get his revenge on his killers, but at the same time
sees to it that she's not harmed ... At times, this is a rather
interesting paranormal thriller, with a few good and creepy ideas even -
but more often, this is more of a crude exercise in horror filmmaking,
basically because the ideas in this film don't all seem 100% thought
through, director Roberta Findlay invariably goes for effect over tension
and suspense, and the whole thing has quite a few structural problems.
However, there are also a few quite good scenes (especially the chase
through the mental institution) and details (the female thug), and in all
it's a rather entertaining piece of low budget 1980's horror - not really
a good film, mind you, and one you will have forgotten in one week tops,
but fun as long as you're watching at least.
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