Mysteria

CONFUSED BY ENDING
Mysteria is a weird noir film that was a bit hard to follow. Danny Glover plays a police detective and the story is told as a flashback as Glover investigates a murder. Robert Miano plays a washed up Hollywood script writer who spends his time drinking and living in a cheap hotel. He has a deadline to meet on a screenplay, has used up all of his advances, hasn't started writing, and the rent is due. A young college girl named Lavina (Meadow Williams) takes an interest in his writing, and becomes the only person he can trust with his script.

While in a drunken stupor, a strange woman with a hollow here-after voice appears to him in a deserted bar and tells him to write about what happens to him, that it would become a great script. There is also a senator(Peter Mark Richman) involved who wants the script.

The acting was good, but the ending didn't give me closure as I must not of been paying close attention during the film trying to assess the details. I was as...

not so good
The best thing about this movie was the title. We have watched movies for years and years and are not picky. But this one was flat and too hard to try to watch

Works for me
Psychic phenomena and ESP was all the rage in the mid-70's, and became a plot-point of many forgettable thrillers and TV shows before it wore out it's welcome. The Premonition is definitely one of the better of the bunch, and might have been totally forgotten were it not for the handful of us that remember fondly from it's "Late Show" airings.

Director, Robert Allen Schnitzer orchestrated a highly atmospheric and offbeat little horror-oddity, on a meager budget, and amidst some decidedly no-frills locations. Though a little rough around the edges at times, The Premonition delivers the same eerie, sustained mood of a film like "Don't Look Now", but with a fraction of the resources. I think most fans of obscure, 70's horror with a somewhat "artistic" flair will find this one pretty enjoyable.

This Media Blasters DVD looks and sounds good; or I should say about as good as low-budget 70's film that was probably shot on fast, grainy film stock is going to look. It's...

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