Horror On The Lens: Baffled! (dir by Philip Leacock)


 

This is a film that I share every year for Horrorthon and can you blame me?  Check out this pitch: Leonard Nimoy is a race car driver who can see into the future and who uses his powers to solve crimes!

Seriously, if that’s not enough to get you to watch the 1973 made-for-TV movie Baffled!, then I don’t know what is.  In the film, Nimoy takes a break from racing so that he and a parapsychologist (played by Susan Hampshire) can solve the mystery of the visions that Nimoy is having of a woman in a mansion.  This movie was meant to serve as a pilot and I guess if the series had been picked up, Nimoy would have had weekly visions.  Of course, the movie didn’t lead to a series but Baffled! is still fun in a 70s television sort of way.  Thanks to use of what I like to call “slo mo of doom,” a few of Nimoy’s visions are creepy and the whole thing ends with the promise of future adventures that were sadly never to be.  And it’s a shame because I’ve always wondered what was going on with that couple at the airport!

Enjoy Baffled!  Can you solve the mystery before Leonard?

 

Bonus Horror On TV: In Search Of…. The Siberian Fireball


What was the Siberian fireball?

One of the more intriguing mysteries of history is investigated in this episode of In Search Of….  Leonard Nimoy narrates!

(It’s always strange to me that there hasn’t been hundreds of movies made about the Tunguska event.  I know that the current popular theory is that it was a comet or, at the very least, a really big asteroid.  Personally, I like the theory that it was Nikolai Tesla testing out a death ray.)