The Mind’s Eye is my kind of horror movie.

It takes the concept of telekinetic powers made horrific and popular in films such as Scanners and Carrie and then expands them and explodes them in a joyously violent and exciting way that far exceed its independent, low budget trappings.

The story is about Zack Connors (Graham Skipper) a troubled loner with very strong telekinetic powers who, when picked up by the police, agrees to enter Dr. Slovak’s (John Speredakos) weird treatment center but only so he can find his friend and lover Rachel Meadows (Lauren Ashley Carter), also blessed/cursed with the powers of telekinesis, who’s been missing and is being held by the Doc.

They find out the Doc has been juicing on their considerable powers and is getting madder and stronger. They escape his grasp but he stops at nothing to get them back. Power is pitted against power in an exciting, bloody, violent, effects laden orgy of a finale. Featuring all the exploding heads, gore, shotguns and fire you could ever need!

When the film started, having coincidentally just watched Scanners recently and with the front cover proclaiming that this was “the best Scanners sequel we never got”, I have to say, I was a little skeptical. The initial similarity to the plot of Scanners did not help either. It did take a while for the film to grow on me. Once it gets underway though it’s like some brilliant, violent, gory, low budget X-Men movie as if it was directed by Stuart Gordon.