Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

utgard14 A series of beautiful women are disfiguring themselves while mysteriously hypnotized. Suspicion falls on hypnotist Jacques Bergerac. Soon it appears the girlfriend of the detective in charge of the case is to be the next victim.Jacques Bergerac is probably best known as being middle-aged Ginger Rogers' ex-gigolo...I mean, husband. He became an actor after their marriage. A couple of years after they divorced, he married Dorothy Malone. He's kind of creepy which works for the part. B movie queen Allison Hayes has the best role as his sexy assistant. Hayes is a favorite of mine. She made every one of the low-budget movies she appeared in better. Joe Patridge is the incompetent and obnoxious detective who couldn't find his ass with both hands and a flashlight. This guy is such a jerk and he's supposed to be the hero! Not to mention he's such a poor detective his girlfriend has to do his job for him. Guy Prescott is his psychiatrist sidekick. He's moderately smarter than his buddy and he seems to be a bit of a voyeur, judging by the stakeout scene. Marcia Henderson plays the girlfriend and amateur sleuth. Schlocky horror-thriller that's better than it has any right being. The "HypnoMagic" stuff is great. There are also a couple of pretty effective shocks that pushed the boundaries for 1960. A woman sets her head on fire, another washes her face with acid, and something else that happens in the climax. I mean it's not gory but still pretty rough for the time. Love the campy beatnik scene. It's an imperfect but fun movie. A nice way to pass the time but nothing extraordinary. Allison Hayes fans will definitely want to see it.

Dalbert Pringle WARNING!! Do Not Try These "Specialized" Beauty Treatments At Home! (1) A sulphuric acid facial. (And/Or) (2) A flammable shampoo while standing over a lit gas burner.Believe me - The overall effects could be devastating! The reason why I say "specialized" beauty treatments here, is that these particular treatments, believe it or not, are especially designed to ruin beauty, rather than enhance it - Which is the very reason why these sorts of treatments are being so sadistically administered in The Hypnotic Eye (a somewhat sleazy, but often amusing Horror/Thriller from 1960).As the story goes - Something (or someone?) very sick and twisted is driving beautiful, young women into grotesque acts of self-mutilation. Careful police investigation inevitably leads handsome Detective, Steve Kennedy, to a debonair stage hypnotist named Desmond and his glamorous assistant, Justine, who harbours a deep and, yes, very deadly secret.In a nutshell - The Hypnotic Eye is nerve-frying, unintentionally humorous, Horror, played out alongside a beatnik culture, that's combined, and then neatly mixed in with a predictable "women-in-peril" storyline.

calvinnme ... and that's too bad since for schlocky horror at its spartan best you just can't do any better than 50's and 60's vintage films like this one, Macabre, and From Hell it Came. This was never intended to compete with the likes of Universal's Frankenstein.The central issue of the plot is that the great beauties of the town are mutilating themselves. One puts her face in a running fan, another washes her face with acid, another shampoos with the flames of a gas stove. None of the girls remembers doing what they did much less why they did it. Police detective Steve Kennedy is running into a bunch of brick walls in his investigation when one night his girl takes him to see a show featuring a hypnotist. The next day the girl that was with them during the show, and one of the guests that was invited on stage as a subject for hypnotism, is found mutilated too. The detective and his girl begin to suspect the hypnotist, but still the questions remain - why and more so how, since all of the girls were found alone.The film is full of the kind of stream of consciousness dialogue and wooden acting that was a trademark of Jim Abrahams and the two Zuckers, except they were doing this kind of thing on purpose often as a spoof of these kinds of movies, and in these old B horror films it works well. Plus this old film is loaded with scenes that were knocking on the door of breaking down the old production code once and for all such as Desmond the hypnotist putting his subjects in a sexually receptive trance so that he can make out with them while a deliberate yet passive Justine looks on vicariously. The film has been splendidly restored by the Warner Archive, and I highly recommend that copy as everyone else who is peddling DVDs of the movie is using third rate unrestored copies. Not just for Halloween, this one is for anytime you're in the mood for a guilty pleasure.

raggtopp93 No one under 40 years of age should be allowed to rate this movie. It was made for the big screen. The tube takes away from the unique special effects.Todays audience does not appreciate the days of non-computer effects. As a teen-age female when I saw it at the theater, I was shocked (wasn't that the point?) at the horror. Crushed that a gorgeous hunk like Jacques Bergerac could be the bad guy, and that spiraling "hypnotic eye" was sooo much more memorable when it was bigger than the audience.It really came out at you, without it being a 3-D movie . Their advertising claimed it could hypnotize the audience. Well,of course,it couldn't, but it did have an affect of you. It could not have been the "bad" movie some sites say it was, if I recall him and the "eye" after 46 years.