EDITOR’S NOTE: Mind Over Murder was on the CBS Late Movie on July 30, 1982.

Suzy (Deborah Raffi, Death Wish 3) is a dancer who suddenly has psychic visions where time slows down and she can witness a strange bald man (Andrew Prine, as creepy as it gets) assaulting and murdering women. Her boyfriend Jason (Bruce Davison) refuses to believe her but she gets some help from government agent Ben Kushing (David Ackroyd) and his partner Ted Beasly (Robert Englund). She can see the bald man killing everyone on an airplane and they hope that she can use her Eyes of Laura Mars powers and stop him.

Also known as Psychomania, Are You Alone Tonight? and Deadly Vision, this was directed by Ivan Nagy and written by Robert Carrington (Venom, Wait Until Dark).

This is the best IMDB review ever: “Deborah Raffin punched in the stomach? If this is the same movie I’m thinking about, what I recall the most is the lead girl (very pretty) Debra Raffin (I think) was punched real hard in the stomach by a bald guy. The punches weren’t seen but they were heard and then she was seen on her knees, doubled up on the floor – suffering for a long period of time, holding her stomach and bent over. I was rather young when I first saw this movie and I remember that scene of the girl on her knees, bent over double holding her stomach and in so much pain. I remember think How could someone do such a thing to such pretty girl? Her acting in the part was superb. She acted as though she had really been punched in the stomach.” 10 out of 10 stars.

Speaking of creepy, Prine is incredible in this, yelling dialogue like, “What do you want to do first? Make love or die?” She also gets to see him shirtless and glistening with oil while wearing pants that feel painted on as he stalks and kills several women.

And creepier still, let’s talk Ivan Nagy. A former bookmaker for the mob and boyfriend of Heidi Fleiss; he also directed episodes of CHIPs and HBO’s The Hitchhiker, as well as the movies Captain America II: Death Too Soon and Pushing Up Daisies. He made Deadly Hero, a film where an unbalanced cop becomes a hero after killing the stalker of a woman, then becoming obsessed with her, as well as the Gary Coleman as an arsonist TV movie Playing With Fire and Intimate Encounters, a TV film where Donna Mills get all sexed up. But it’s his movie Skinner that this reminds me of, a giallo-style thriller that has a killer pursuing Ricki Lake and being pursued himself by a scarred Traci Lords, one of the many sex workers that he’s cut off their skin but the only one who has survived. It’s beyond scummy in the way that only someone who knows the world they’re writing about can create.

After that movie, Nagy went into adult films, directing Izzy Sleeze’s Casting Couch Cuties, Trailer Trash Teri and Wild Desire.

You can watch this on Tubi.