Friday, May 23, 2014

Project X (1968)



Paramount Pictures
Directed by William Castle
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Olive Films)

Cryongenically frozen Christopher George is thawed out in the year 2118. Scientists hope to pry information from his memories which will save the western world from an attack by an east Asian country. They create an artificial reproduction of a 1960s farm house in the hopes it will stimulate his dreams, which they remotely monitor. George meets pretty Greta Baldwin when he tries to escape and she almost ruins the experiment. The psychedelic dream sequences are heavily processed with video effects and incorporate some Hanna-Barbera animation, but they go on far too long and overwhelm the rest of the film. A disembodied brain plays a key role. It's not particularly good, but can be entertaining in the right mood.

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