The oracle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The oracle |
| Original title | The Oracle |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 / no youth approval |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roberta Findlay |
| script | R. Allen Unfortunately |
| production | Walter E. Sear |
| music | Walter E. Sear Michael Litovsky |
| camera | Roberta Findlay |
| cut | Roberta Findlay |
| occupation | |
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The Oracle is an American horror film directed by Roberta Findlay in 1985.
action
The beginning of the film shows an old woman, Mrs. Malatesta, who uses an artificial hand with a quill as a planchette and thus makes contact with the afterlife. The next scene shows Jennifer moving into Mrs. Malatesta's apartment together with her husband Ray as the new tenant. The caretaker Pappas says that the old woman has disappeared without a trace. While rummaging through their old things, Jennifer comes across a box that contains the hand with a quill and that emits a strange greenish light when opened.
The next shot shows a corpulent stranger on Christmas Eve. His name is Farkas and is a woman disguised as a man. Farkas goes to a prostitute's room and kills her with several stab wounds. At the same time, Jennifer and Ray are holding a Christmas party to which they have invited a couple of friends, Cindy and Ben. The planchette is tried out as a party gag. With Jennifer, the hand with the quill suddenly starts to write. The message is "Help me".
Later that night, the planchette begins to write on its own, Jennifer hears the writing noise and discovers a message with the name William Graham and a phone number. When she tells her friend Cindy about it, she calls the number and learns that William Graham had committed suicide three weeks earlier.
After Jennifer notices again that the hand is writing by itself, she throws it together with the box in the trash. After that, some sinister force prevents her from leaving the room and she is scared to death. When the spook ends, Ray thinks Jennifer is crazy and wants to dispose of this box. On the way to the garbage he meets the caretaker Pappas, who takes it from him. A little later, Pappas is annoyed that he did not win the lottery again and asks the planchette about the next lottery numbers. But when nothing happens, he closes the box in anger. Some time later, however, he opens it again and sees a greenish light. A small monster that had previously crawled out of the box unnoticed now falls upon him. Since he suddenly sees imaginary monsters all over his body, he tries to kill them in his delusions with a knife, killing himself with countless knife stabs in his body and finally in the eye.
That night, in a nightmare, Jennifer suddenly sees creatures on the TV, behind the shower curtain and finally the dead caretaker with the knife in his eye. Ben informs Ray that he found out Graham was found suffocated in his car in his warehouse. Jennifer uses the planchette more and more and notices that she is becoming a medium . She sees that William Graham did not commit suicide, but was murdered by the corpulent Farkas and an accomplice. She then visits Dorothy Graham, the wife of the deceased, and tells him about her husband's news. However, the murderers of Graham get this and want to murder Jennifer now.
At a New Year's Eve party, Jennifer is attacked by Farkas, this time disguised as a woman, but can knock him down. At home she asks the planchette again who wants to kill her. She realizes that Farkas is the same person who killed Graham. Cindy asks Jennifer to finally see a psychiatrist because she still doesn't believe her. She tells her that these are all delusions and offers to use her hand with Jennifer to prove it. However, Jennifer refuses to let her into the apartment while using the planchette. Then the psychiatrist is killed in the building by the dark force. While walking, Farkas committed a murder attempt on Jennifer in a car, but Jennifer managed to save herself in a museum. She believes Farkas is following her and asks a guard for help. Then Jennifer is picked up in an ambulance.
Meanwhile, Ray discovers the box hidden in the laundry basket and throws it into the garbage chute, furious. Then suddenly two hands grab him from the shaft and kill him. In the mental hospital, Farkas' accomplice, disguised as a doctor, wants to kill Jennifer, but is killed shortly beforehand by a creature. Jennifer escapes from the institution and is asked by the apparently random Mrs. Graham into the car, in which, surprisingly, Farkas is also sitting. Apparently Mrs. Graham is behind the murder of her husband. They drive to the warehouse, Jennifer is able to escape again, but is followed by Farkas with an ax. There, however, he is killed by William Graham, who appears as a zombie. Jenny runs to the abandoned car while Mrs. Graham searches for Farkas and discovers his body. Mrs. Graham barricades herself in her husband's car, which is still there. Then suddenly the Graham zombie sits next to her and she is gassed in the car.
The final shot shows Jennifer sitting in front of the planchette again.
criticism
"Despite a few bumpy cuts, the low-budget production comes up with a few good shock effects, but this only lifts the film just above average."
“A young woman with psychic abilities clears up the murder of a businessman disguised as suicide and avenges the victim whose spirit has taken possession of her. Horror film based on the usual knitting patterns. "
Web links
- The Oracle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The oracle in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/film/das-orakel,1325025.html
- ↑ The Oracle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .