It all leads up to some crazy reincarnation-possession love story with a decent twist and a turn right at the end. The flashback sequences are well done, good period costuming, both Smith and Terry are decent, but it is Claire Bloom (Clash of the Titans) as Maggie's overbearing mother, driven to separate her star dancer daughter and her lover, that steals all the scenes she's in, they should have incorporated her character a lot more.Īs Gregory becomes more and more obsessed with what caused the fire in the 30's that took their lives his own relationship with Maggie begins to break apart, strange things begin to happen, someone kills their cat and he begins receiving threatening letters in the mail. Gregory is guided by the psychic, enabling him to travel further into his mind to explore his past life while he tries to solve the mystery of their deaths. He is haunted by vivid dreams and remembrances of his previous life as the dancer's lover. Gregory comes to the realization that he is the reincarnated soul of Ashley's lover, a ballet choreographer named Michael Richardson. His research brings him into contact with a friend of Ashley's, a Russian psychic named Olga (Shelley Winters, Tentacles). His new found obsession with the ballerina coincides with Maggie leaving town for a role in a new movie, with her gone he is able to throw himself into the research, beginning with scouring the public record, which only gets him so far. Afterward he cannot shake the story and decides he will take a break from writing his new novel, to the chagrin of his increasingly irritated book agent, to write a screenplay about the life and death of the ballerina. Gregory is taken by the character of Ashley (Smith, again), also commenting on the uncanny resemblance between the doomed ballerina and his actress fiancee. The movie they're watching is a doc about a famous 1930's ballerina named Brooke Ashley who died in mysterious fire, along with her lover and mother. Here we have both Jaclyn Smith (Charlie's Angels) and Nigel Terry (Excalibur) in a dual roles, Terry plays author Gregory Thomas, whom at the open of the film is at the cinema with his fiancee, actress Maggie( Smith). This Cannon Group reincarnation-thriller is a new one to me, never watched it before, never even heard of it, but the synopsis reminded me a bit of the Kenneth Branagh film Dead Again (1991) so I thought I'd bite, and to be honest, after watching it I feel that perhaps Branagh might nicked a bit of this for 80s obscurity for his own film, though his movie far outclasses this mess of a supernatural tinged melodrama. Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 with Optional English SubtitlesĬast: Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Richard Kay, Frank Gatliff
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