The Hypnotic Eye

1960

Horror

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1014 1K

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Plot summary

A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.

Director

George Blair Photo
George Blair

Top cast

Allison Hayes Photo
Allison Hayes as Justine
Merry Anders Photo
Merry Anders as Dodie Wilson
Jimmy Lydon Photo
Jimmy Lydon as Emergency Doctor
Mary Foran Photo
Mary Foran as June Mayes
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719.71 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 18 min
Seeds 78
1.44 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 18 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by evilskip 6 / 10

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!
Reviewed by GroovyDoom 7 / 10

Scooby-Doo to the Rescue!

Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 7 / 10

Solid and overall entertaining

When a series of strange self-mutilations against women occurs throughout the city, the police investigator assigned to the case worries a big-shot hypnotist is responsible and tries to keep his girlfriend from falling under his spell and becoming another victim.This here was a fairly entertaining if somewhat slightly flawed effort. The main crux of this one is the fact that there's just as much of a mystery angle as there is a horror angle, almost to the point of that being the film's interest rather than the horror since the mutilations take place before the film starts with us getting involved at the most recent attack while the majority of the film takes focus on the police trying to find the cause of the attacks with little effort before stumbling onto the whole affair at the end. This isn't bad at all despite the change in tactics because the mystery is handled nicely with a rather shocking reveal late in the film that makes it a lot more shocking than expected. The few attacks shown are quite gruesome and graphic for the time-period, with one being quite shocking overall. Coupled with a bevy of attractive women and a rather healthy viewpoint of hypnosis and it's effects, this one isn't all that bad.Today's Rating-PG: Violence.
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