The Premonition Movie Review

The Premonition is a 1976 thriller/horror movie directed by Robert Allen Schnitzer and starring Richard Lynch, Sharon Farrell and Edward Bell.

The movie begins with a man called Jude(Lynch) showing pictures of a child to a woman who is called Andrea(Ellen Barber). The woman goes to see the child, Janie, at school. She gets seen by the child's foster mother, Sheri(Farrell) who is not happy. Janie's foster dad is Miles (Bell) who is a professor and is working with a woman called Jeena Kingsley who specialises in parapsychology.
 Sheri tells her husband about the woman who was at the school. Sheri starts to have visions about Jude and Andrea. Meanwhile, her husband goes off on some sort of a date with his colleague, Dr. Kingsley. The same night, Andrea goes to Janie's room. She gets disturbed by Sheri and she runs off with the child's doll but not before telling her that Janie is hers. Sheri calls the police and then Miles comes home to discover what has happened.

Jude is angry with Andrea. She has really lost the plot. He thought that they were going to get Janie and live together but she has gone mad. He runs after her with a knife. Miles tells the cops that Andrea is Janie's real mother and that she was trying to get her daughter from them. She was a bad mother and she got put into a mental institution. Sheri thinks that Andrea has put a hex on them. Sheri has another vision. This time it is of Andrea, who is covered in blood. She tells Miles about it. Miles tells his colleague. He wants Sheri to meet Dr. Kingsley and talk about the visions. Sheri crashes her car and when she wakes up, Janie is missing.

Janie has wandered off alone. She sees a carnival where the weird Jude is a clown. He happens to be drinking and walking around when he hears Janie crying. He takes her back to his van. Sheri remembers the house where Jude and Andrea were staying and she brings Miles there. They find Janie's doll there and call the cops. The cops find Andrea dead. Dr. Kingsley talks to Sheri and she wants her to try and envision where her daughter is. Sheri tries and feels that Janie is alive. Jude kills a carnival worker as she was going to call the cops and tell them he has Janie. Dr Kingsley thinks that they should have a concert for Andrea. It might help Sheri find her daughter. Sheri plays music that Andrea wrote. Jude is on the run with Janie.

The woman Jude killed sent a picture of Jude to Sheri's house. The cops see it and start sniffing around the carnival. They find out that Jude is on the run with Janie. Miles sees him in his van. He runs over and gets inside. They have a big fight. The cops come in time and arrest him. Janie runs out and finds her mother. This is an odd film. It isn't really a horror movie, even though there are some horror elements in it. I would class this as a thriller. There aren't really any scary scenes. It is a decent movie and Richard Lynch is creepy as the psychopathic clown. I think that it is a strange film with some drama elements as well as thriller and horror. It is a mixed bag, but don't let that put you off. It is a good watch and I enjoyed it. I would have liked more in the way of scares, but I will still give this one a 6/10.