Rating: ** 1/2 out of 4

Cast: Loryn Locklin, James Remar, Penny Johnson, Bruce MacVittie, and Francis X. McCarthy.

Writer: Wes Craven & Thomas Baum

Director: Wes Craven

Wes stepped into the ring of Television film one final time with Night Visions. As it turns out, the film was really designed to be a pilot to a new show, but evidently NBC lost interest after a poor test screening. This is unfortunate for several reasons, mainly because the film really isn’t half bad. Dated and hokey, maybe, but by no means bad. In fact the film offers one of Craven’s most interesting creations in Sally Powers.

The premise follows a loose cannon detective (a la Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon) who teams up with a young psychologist brought on board an investigation by the police to look into the Spread-Eagle Killer who lurks the streets of Hollywood. But detective Mackey learns that there is more to his new partner Sally than meets the eye. She is no mere psychologist; she actually has the ability to absorb the psychological state of the people around her, which she uses to deconstruct the killer’s modus operandi.