The Lifeforce Experiment

"The Lifeforce Experiment" is a Canadian made for TV film. It is about a mad scientist (Donald Sutherland) who is working on some very unethical and ridiculously improbably experiments. In particular, he's trying to communicate with the dead! And, the CIA is involved with this...for good or bad.

The technology in the film is pretty dopey. They have a hypnosis machine that almost instantly induced hypnosis. Hypnosis is a very inexact thing...and it just doesn't work that way. But even more ridiculous is the scientist's ability to read dreams and see them vividly on a television monitor. I laughed at one of these scenes, as the lady on the device was seeing her toddler crawl to his death...even though she was not there to witness this. How did the machine reproduce this?? It's all completely silly---and you add to that the CIA angle and you've got a film that is just stupid. Sorry to be so blunt...but I tired of this movie very quickly and it's pathetic score of 4.8 seems awfully high considering the script.