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ACTOR
Jacques BergeracMerry AndersMarcia HendersonAllison Hayes
DIRECTOR
George Blair
SYNOPSICS
The Hypnotic Eye (1960) is a English movie. George Blair has directed this movie. Jacques Bergerac,Merry Anders,Marcia Henderson,Allison Hayes are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1960. The Hypnotic Eye (1960) is considered one of the best Horror movie in India and around the world.
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The Hypnotic Eye (1960) Reviews
Scooby-Doo to the Rescue!
This film is a lot of fun, mostly because it is so very bizarre. It's about a mad hypnotist who leaves a trail of disfigured beauties in his wake, women who apparently performed acts of self-mutilation while in a hypnotic trance. I first saw this on TNT when they ran a series called "100% Weird", and boy they weren't kidding. This is a camp classic, right down to the period hairdos and the stereotypical characters (the stupid cops, the beautiful woman in peril, the suave euro-trash magician, the jealous woman with a secret). It's a painless experience due to the short running time; in fact, several scenes are obviously padded in order to make the film feature-length, such as scenes of an entire audience being hypnotized and a sequence inside a beatnik jazz club that's a real hoot. It's even got a Scooby-Doo ending involving a character who tears off a false face. Unbelievable. There's no way you could take it seriously, and no way you won't enjoy it either.
Bizarre film from 1960....
In this surprisingly watchable chiller from 1960, a hypnotist Desmond (Bergerac) gets his entertainment by having beautiful young women disfigure themselves in pretty graphic wayssetting their hair on fire, washing faces with acid, drinking lye, putting their faces in fanswell, you get the idea. With all of this going on, the local police send a detective and a police psychologist out to solve the cases. This movie features undoubtedly the dumbest duo of police officers ever, detective Steve Kennedy and Dr. Philip Hecht. These two guys are such idiots that their incompetence is fascinating to watch. At first, they can't decide whether all of these disfigurement cases are related (duh!) and spend the rest of the movie tryingsort ofto catch the perpetrator. The many unintentionally funny scenes include Steve's girlfriend (Henderson) being kissed and groped by Desmond (while Steve blankly watches from a distance), the first hypnosis scene ("You are the meanest of all the dogs!!"), the beatnik bar scene, and the final scene at a theater, where the "secret" is revealed, but only after the audience is mesmerized into doing pretty outrageous thingslike bad acting. Released during the hypnosis and beatnik crazes of the early 1960s, this bizarre movie is an interesting time capsule and stars cult actress Allison Hayes. Be sure and catch Hecht's (Guy Prescott) jaw-dropping closing line it's guaranteed to leave you speechless.
I could put hypnotism to a better use
The film opens up with a women washing her hair over a lit gas stove.Naturally her hair catches fire and she has the hairdo from Hell.This isn't the first case of self mutilation in the big city.Many women have been doing this for weeks.Some have washed their face with sulfuric acid, stuck their faces into fans etc.Is there a connection? Well if you're the police department with a collective IQ of minus six it is tough to figure out.This force couldn't find a donut shop with a road map.Yes there is a connection. All of the women have been to see a show by Desmond a well known hypnotist. Desmond hypnotizes woman picked by his va va voom assistant(Allison Hayes). He also whispers something to them just before he breaks their trance.Hmm, wonder what that could be?Then he hypnotizes the crowd and makes them do foolish things which is a giggle.Everybody goes home happy. Sensing a connection before her idiot police detective boy friend does a young woman allows herself to be put under Desmond's spell.When she goes home that night Desmond's assistant tells her to take a shower in scalding water.Luckily old slow on the uptake shows up before she does. There is a bit of twist ending to this movie.The disfigurements are done "tastefully"(no gore after all this is 1960).Much is left to the imagination. The acting is par for this genre. The police are portrayed as such morons you wonder how any crime gets solved in this city.The movie is padded with lingering scenes of the audience under hypnotic commands.Even so it is above average. You will look deep into the Hypnotic Eye.You will open your wallet/purse and send me your money.Told you I had a better use for hypnotism!
Excellent mystery played for horror
Before the jaded, post "Star Wars" audiences took over, there were "B" films, independent films and foreign films all playing at those comfortable neighborhood theaters and drive-ins. "The Hypnotic Eye" is one of the best. Featuring crisp, moody black and white cinematography, a wonderful main title theme and excellent performances from its cast, this offbeat thriller was somewhat influenced by the popularity of quality detective series, like "Naked City," appearing on television at the time. "The Hypnotic Eye" combines a solid mystery story with hard-hitting horror effects for a chilling and satisfying ride. This was one of the first movies I can recall seeing as a child, as a re-run on TV. I was drawn in by its atmosphere and attractive cast. The end seemed very exciting to me and over 40 years later, I can still enjoy it through adult eyes. Younger audiences, desensitized by the vulgarity of the post-modern world, its drug culture, hippies and bombastic films will be completely unable to understand this film. However, in the context of the era in which it was produced--1960--it is impactful and entertaining. If you're over 45 and haven't seen it, check it out.
Stare! Stare in the Hypnotic Eye!!
I just heard Michael J Weldon of Psychotronic Video talk about this on a podcast interview. It reminded me of the first time I saw this on television ( sometime in the 1960's I guess) on the late night Friday Chiller show. The woman burning herself, her hair catching fire, etc. was really terrifying. The film is kind of a B-Movie horror-noir with the oily continental Jacques Begerac performing that Hypnotic Eye thing and causing all manner of mayhem and mutilation. Then there was the wonderful Allison Hayes just 2 years past The Attack of the 5o Foot Woman giving another great performance and of course, my favorite, Merry Andrews from TV's How to Marry a Millionaire. They just don't make them like this anymore. A campy horror classic!