Carrie, the superheroine Jean Gray and even comatose Patrick all possessed the power. We're talking about the power of telekinesis, the ability to control objects with your mind. The two films in this month's programme both feature young teens endowed with this power who find themselves intimidated by their entourage until they lose it completely, revealing their supernatural ability and falling in the hands of a military industrial complex that wants nothing more than to exploit them.

In "The Fury" (1978), Brian De Palma combines these plot lines in a kind of telekinetic fireworks display à la "Carrie", solidly coated in political paranoia. His stylistic virtuosity and excess delivers a gratifying, big-screen dose of "guilty pleasure".

"The Visitor", an insane medley of "Rosemary's Baby", "The Fury", "The Birds", "The Omen" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is a total and utter guilty pleasure as well. A young woman bestowed with telekinetic powers, a mysterious alien leading an army of bald children, a host of stars that clearly needed to pay their bills (John Huston, Shelley Winters, Sam Peckinpah, Glenn Ford and Lance Henriksen) and Franco Nero as... Christ himself!