I know that I have seen this years ago on VHS and I watched it again as I am writing this and my only conclusion is that it is a typical flick for the end of the eighties.We all know that the end of the eighties didn't brought us much in the horror genre except a few and this one is a so-called horror that isn't frightening at all. For todays standards it is even a bit lame. There are no effects to spot or any blood at all and that for a horror. Naturally if you don't add blood (like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)) you must add suspense or eerie situations but we don't have it here. The horror lays in the fact that a medium do contact dead people who are in fact still alive. Nobody believes her but once the living are dying like she said things go wrong. There are a lot of famous names here to see but for me it didn't deliver enough suspense like it did back then. For the Kleenex lovers, Rosanne Arquette do show a few things...Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Rosanna Arquette is Jason Robards daughter who possesses special powers to for tell future events. This leads to difficulties as she identifies the hit-man who carried out one of her predictions. There is a certain quality to this film that relates to the genuineness of Arquettes performance. Her followers come across as true believers, and what starts as a scam spirals into a very intriguing story. Tom Hulce's performance is no more than adequate, with zero sparks flying between him and the super sexy Arquette. Another negative would have to be Hulce's sometimes on, sometimes off Southern dialect, which detracts. Overall though this is a creative and entertaining film. - MERK

A man named Gary Wallace (Tom Hulce) looked for a medium named Martha Travis (Rosanna Arquette) who disappeared after her father's death. Gary found her living in the woods and he had been tracking this girl down for 10 years.This was confusing in the beginning because, you see her father alive! Weird. This movie began where it ended. Anyways, here's the rest of the review:Martha worked at a church as a medium and she lived with her father named Walter Travis (Jason Robards) at a hotel. And that day, she saw a vision of a woman's husband, her name was Mary Kuron (Linda Pierce). And her husband's name was Tom (Olek Krupa) and Martha believed that he was dead! And when Mary returned home, he was okay until she went out of the lounge. Tom got shot while he was watching t.v. BIZARRE! After the incident, Martha and Walter went to go speak to a guy named Jack Callow (Jon Thompson) to discuss the incident. Fortunately, Jack's wife Eva (Helen Boldwin) refused to say who Mary was with. That guy was the person who shot Mary's Husband! He certainly was looking for TROUBLE!Again, at the church. Martha said to a woman named Jacky Adams (Marty Terry) that her deceased friend had seen her husband, Bill. And then, she said to a woman that her brother named Louis is with his twin brother Jimmy, when in fact one of them was dead! And soon, Jacky believed that her husband Bill was dead.And not so soon, Martha was told to go because, everyone thought she was a witch. And when Wallis popped in to the church to see Martha, she had left. And he finally found her and he warned her about Tom Kuron's murderer was going to kill her that evening. And that night, the murderer came after her while she was communicating to another person's deceased love one. Martha shrieked, she told everyone in the church to run , gun shots went off, and everyone ran out like crazy people.And when Martha came home, her father took off with her the moment she came in! And the killer shot out of Martha's room and he tried to shot Martha down the passage. But strangely, the bullets went through her and they killed her father! And followed by an investigator named Irving Weinberg (Ron Rosenthal) when he was coming out of the elevator. And when the killer came downstairs, he got shot and he went through a wood and glass door.And before Gary left the church, Martha told him that her father didn't know that all this was not a dream. And she disappeared. And Wallace went back into the wood's , to Martha's house to find her. NOW! This was the strangest moment that I was talking about: A car that was seen stuck in a leaf pile was seen again and Martha's house was totally shambled. And as you all knew....it was in the woods. Weird END!

The script is filled with a series of chilling twists which Hodges plays with an absolute and certain confidence - the eeriness as Arquette's first vision starts to come, and her agitation and attempts to cover as what she is performing turns to real; the second vision where she reels off a list of names of the dead trying to contact the living and said people still alive in the audience start standing up puzzled. Hodges' depiction of a seedy con-job slowly becoming darker is beautifully written. The imagery as Arquette's vistas of heavenly meadows and tranquil afterlife cliches start to change into impressions of cancers, empty lives and of people suffering is a stunning and powerful one. The final soliloquy Arquette gives, coming out to taunt the audience - how they want there to be an afterlife so they can confirm their own lives, how if there wasn't an afterlife and what they had was all that they were given, then wouldn't that make her a fake ? - is superbly written and utterly rivetting in delivery. Arquette's performance in the film is exceptional.