The Medusa Touch 1978

John Morlar is watching the British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon. Suddenly someone in Morlars room picks up a figurine and strikes him on the head repeatedly. His blood splatters the television screen. A French police inspector, Brunel, arrives at Morlars apartment to begin an investigation. At first he thinks Morlar is dead, but soon he hears him breathe. At the hospital, Morlar is hooked up to life support systems, one machine in particular monitors the activity of his battered brain. Brunel discovers that Morlar has been in psychological analysis because of his history of being witness to many disasters, other peoples disasters. Dr. Zonfeld, Morlars analyst, explains that Morlars delusions had begun when he was a child. He believed that he had caused a hated nannys death. Morlars childhood delusions were reinforced at a resort when he overheard his parents discussing him with disapproval. When his...