The Medusa Touch - Plane Crash scene (HD)
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2016
- One of the best horror movies ever made (IMHO) and surely, one of the most underrated ones. Directed, in 1978 by Jack Gold, "The Medusa Touch", starring Richard Burton, Lee Remick and Lino Ventura, narrates the story of a man with the power to cause disasters. This is one of the most memorable scenes in the movie. No CGI, at the time, just models and a lot of craftmanship. DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own the copyright of this movie. This is just a tribute!
- Hudba
I can only remember the final scene when he appears to be dead, yet writes Windscale on a piece of paper. Scary stuff as a young teenager.
Burton carries it with real conviction. Woefully underrated, still relevant today. A great film.
This movie scared the crap out of me when I saw it as a kid. Only saw it once and still remembered this scene.......
Me too saw it for the very first time in my country back then in the 80s in Iran
Same here. Some of the deaths seemed very mean-spirited.
I only saw this scene and I remember it.
Didn't even see the film. I walked into the room while my parents were watching.
Exactly the same here. I am seeing airplane crashes in my dreams last few years. Couldn't have remember the title so I searched for “medusa airplane crash paranormal”. Had to be like 4y old when I saw it.
@@jimcameron1234 I saw it in Damascus, Syria, but on Jordanian TV back in 1982! It scared the bejesus out of me!
Only Richard Burton could have played the role. That stare...
I thought Remick's stare was more frightening.
Charles Bronson
Lee Van Cleef would have made the plane explode in the air where it was just with his stare
It was totally awesome the the way "The Medusa Touch" was made with no CGI... and that reminded me of "Total Recall" and how that movie was totally hand-crafted without CGI, too.
Exactly! The good old days of REAL cinema, with great screenplays, directing and actors!
@@Innuband Right on
... well, actually there was one very short and relatively technically-primitive (and no doubt VERY expensive to create at the time) few seconds of CGI imagery in "Total Recall", set in a transportation terminal and the people are walking behind a giant security X-ray scanner and their CGI skeletons are seen walking along on the big X-ray display screen. :-)
The world no longer has such great actors.
I remembered this scene; the part when he murdered his parents by ramming the car and pushing them off the cliff, and also that disaster at the cathedral. This was too creepy for a kid like me back then.
I sure hope nothing like this ever happens
It did, the movie predicted wormwood, 8 years later, Chernobyl....which is Russian for Wormwood
Priceless. One of the best horror movies I've ever seen.
Agreed, thanks for your comment!
I agree
@@juliusnepos6013 Eat your heart out Carrie White
Horror? I wouldn't call it that 😮.
"THE m o S S a d TOUCH'
YES!!!
Just saw this last night, never even heard of it before. Classic stuff!
Man, I love the 70s...
How many times before September 11, 2001 has this scenario played out in real life? And how many times has it played out after September 11? Psa flight 182, El al flight 1862, pan am flight 103, continental flight 3407. All involved a plane crashing into a building, whether a skyscraper or a residential house.
The El Al crash in Amsterdam is the only one that even came close to this scene. The others were going down regardless of what they happened to hit on the ground.
From a certain webpage:
“…those who watched a 1978 horror movie starring Richard Burton in The Medusa Touch probably never imagined in their wildest dreams that a scene from a Hollywood movie could ever happen in ‘real’ life”.
Now we do. Outbreak, Pandemic, 12 monkeys etc. They’re told what to put in the movies. I heard the host of coasttocoastam said that a lot:”There are no coincidences,” bcuz it’s all planned out. Everything is by design n not by chance.
On the morning of 11 September, I got up and turned on my television just at the instant the second plane hit the tower. Surreal.
hey i never imagined that enemy of the state could actually be real, i remember being baffled by snowdens revelations.
9/11
When Richard Burton talks to you and stares at you you had better pray to god almighty that you live to tell the tale to your grandchildren!! That man was the epitome of a charming and scary voice RIP Richard you were a legend
Although Burton was hardly in it, his performance was one of his FINEST in my opinion.
One of my favourite films of all time and that soundtrack......
Agreed!
The soundtrack end title sounds like the end theme from "Damien Omen 2"!
"you see , I've found a way of doing God's dirty work for him"
Odd that this film isn't shown more often. It's really well done.
You know why it isn’t
@@Martin_Hayes Because of this 9/11 scene!
They showed it the other night on TV but cut out the crash scene. It had been a few years since I'd seen the movie and I thought I'd misremembered the plane crashing into the building. Had to go on to CZcams to check I wasn't have a senior moment.
@@jameshardwick2726 Still sensitive about 9/11 after all these years... Oddly enough, on 9/11 itself my first thought was this film...
See Richard Burtons 1954 production of 'Under Milkwood', its the ultimate.
Thank you for the tip, Joe!
Where have I seen this before?
This guy has Akira level Telekinesis .. he can effect things on the moon just by thinking about it.
You really need a Richard Burton to pull off that close up.
He’d have been awesome as Hannibal Lecter.
9 - 11
My favourite part of the whole film. Intense!!!
Disturbing viewing since September 11.
One of the great shlock films of all time. It's stayed with me.... Subtle horror/tension is really hard to pull off.
I can't believe it's been seven years already since this movie came out.
1:00 - that's a dead ringer for Will Farrell ... Which I admit totally spoils the scene and makes it more an Aeroplane film ... In which case where's Leslie Neilson (and don't call me Shirley)
Between this and Exorcist II the year before, Burton must have really been feeling a slump.
The tower is the 35 floor Centre point tower on Tottenham court road, London.
This film I saw as a kid but always remember this film, better than the omen.
I think Hugh Jackman and Sandra Bullock would be a good pairing for a remake. Brian Depalma should direct it. After all, he's had plenty of experience with making films dealing with telekinesis.
I'm actually watching this movie right now & it just came up on my feed! Creepy!!!
Burton has been accused of having sold out his talent and just selected the best paid roles since the late sixties, similar to Kinski or Oliver Reed. Money might have been his no.1 criteria for accepting this role but Burton's really frighting as Morlar and gives a memorable performance. Even more so in "Equus" which is likely my favourite Burton performance ever! As a Lino Ventura fan I feel he worked trough it (another attempt to become amore internationally renowed star) and that was it, If you want a top notch Ventura performance watch Garde a Vue (1981) where he demonstrates incredible screen presence. Lee Remich was miscasted here imo.
Super movie!!!:)
Right you are!
A brilliant film indeed. If they were to re visualise it i think Russell Crowe would be a great lead.
Mike Lykan. Good point 👍🏼
I agree! Anthony Hopkins would have been a good choice too!
Paralyzingly Brilliant!
You got it!
Imagine if Morlar teams up with Carrie.
And maybe Charly from Firestarter.
It’s 9/11
When I saw the live images of 9/11 on a TV in a bar, my first thought was that it was a remake of "The Medusa Touch" ... "great CGI", I thought. Then it became clear that it was not a movie.
Very eerie don't you think.
Chilling
I recognise those window styles from somewhere on youtube, what is that building even called if it exists?
Centrepoint building in London
@@Scotdod24 nah ik its centre point building but somewehere else
September 2001 was a reality to thus 1978 horror film.
why didnt he go left?
The storyline reminds me a bit like Frank Robinson's novella, THE POWER.
I miss when 747s had a flight engineer
in addition to the two pilots
Lol engineer is the worst term for that position. All they do is check to make sure all the instruments and systems report everything is A ok which today pilots can do themselves easily
That was because planes back then were not nearly as automated as they are now, so they needed a flight engineer as well as the pilots.
Pre 1970s/80s, everything was done with analog guages and switches, there were no modern computers to simplify the operation of a large aircraft.
This film was produced in 1978, when modern computers just started appearing in aircraft. Most jetliners at the time would not be equipped with these new systems.
@@davidt8087 "engineer" describes exactly what you wrote. You know , running the 'engine'.
The "engineer" was utterly useless on this doomed flight. I mean, "it's all gone haywire here!" Like yeah, no shit Sherlock LOL...
M o S s A d subliminal message
interesting
so it was cardboard, thats it Im sure that i used to be certain, or wsa it that I was certain i was sure. but it was card board all a-lonhg
In that movie I reckon he coid have played damien in the finel conflict as good as same mill playd the roll
As same field playd the adult antie christ in the omen 3 the final conflict
La scène du crash est plus crédible que celle du 11 septembre : l'avion ne pénètre pas entièrement la tour mais vole en éclat.
Just had a pop up advertisement from Qatar Airlines saying "Safe journey with us!"
ideat
Never seen it.
Ritchard burton is the same as damien the omen
at least 4 times the plane speed at the moment of impact would have helped the scale.
tbh it was before 9/11 etc so the makers or viewers probably didn't know or notice that it was too slow like you say.
Couldn't he come up with a less extreme demonstration of his power? Like causing a minor traffic accident in the street below his window?
On the contrary, this is the best scene of the movie and one of the most terrifying in cinema, I believe. A truly underrated movie!
I thought the same bloody thing, he keeps going on about how bad people are, and how worthless humanity is, yet is by far the worst person there is!
How would anybody be able to tell the difference between that, and accidents caused every day by careless drivers?
"and how worthless humanity is, yet is by far the worst person there is"
Clearly, he's gone mad.
lee remick kept doubting his ability when seeing little stuff like you suggest (just thinking it was all coincidence) - so burton grew impatient ......
Brutal film.... brutal scene... all is brutal
I've already jumped get someone else to jump
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Ebert called this the worst movie of 1978.
Could you imagine what the people on the airplanes were going through when the airplane crashed into the Twin Towers.
They might not have even known that they were about to crash into the towers, or have time to know what killed them.
The hijackers told the passengers that they would be landing at an airport.
The passengers of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania got word of what happened to the other planes, and attempted to wrestle control back from the hijackers.
@@plateshutoverlock how do you know? proof?
Some guy in the Mideast circa 1990 something 'Write that down'.
ideat
This was fake and above all it was just a movie!
Well... duh...
The movie is the plant and the conditioning. The Satanists always tell you what they have planned in the future.
So much for selling any condos in THAT building...
Makes me want to get my Boogie on with 4 of my buddies.
ideat
he did these kind of movies for the money. He had Elizabeth who wanted a lot of presents and limousines etc, and he had to get it from somewhere. And in my view, yes, he wasted his talent for money.
thanks karen...
Now this IS what happens when an airliner crashes into a building! Now compare it to what we are meant to believe happened on 9/11!
lol
You are comparing a movie made in 1978, while visually mpressive, does not match reality to a real life event. Not to mention where the impacts happened, and this being an apartment building which would be much different structually speaking than the Twin Towers.
You just hammered home his point 100 fold.
I don't believe 9/11 was done by terrorist.
I have an idea, lets do a little experiment.
Glory to Satan....Glory to the evil one !
What the Fuck? another 747 dies ? this is bullshit, it should have been better a DC-10 or an L-1011, not 747.
What about a European Airbus?
@@sireugenecourtney5797 much more better.
We never could imagine someone slamming a plane into a building...Condoleezza rice....on 911...looks like "they" knew...whoever "they" are.