I honestly believed CBS’s evening programs represented the low point for Gerald McRaney's career. The story revolves around four individuals subjected to experiments involving a deranged computer focused on mind control. That's essentially all there is to it; steer clear of this one. I encountered it under the name "Grey Matter," and it might just be among the most regrettable films I’ve seen in quite some time. Othe…

The movie is a product of the nineteen seventies and draws from popular trends in cinema at that time—specifically, stories involving sinister mind control plots like those seen in 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'The Ipcress File,' as well as anxieties surrounding government secrecy common during the Vietnam and Watergate years. As someone who remembers James Best as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane from ‘The Dukes of Hazza…