Escapement

Year: 1958

Runtime: 80 mins

Language: English

Directors: Montgomery Tully, David Paltenghi

Science FictionMysteryCrime

An insurance investigator discovers a pattern of sudden brain hemorrhages among patients at a French psychiatric clinic that uses an experimental device to project relaxing visual imagery directly into their minds. The technology’s dark side is hinted when a strikingly beautiful patient becomes eerily docile under a demonic presence.

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