adriangr "The Hypnotic Eye" is a fairly effective B movie about a spate of self-mutilations by beautiful women who appear to be in a trance when they do the deed. A detective tries to unravel the link between the victims and a stage show that features a hypnotist that they have all attended.A lot of what appears in the movie is fun, although "The Hypnotic Eye" is barely 70 minutes long, and a lot of this is padding, featuring several needlessly long looks at the "hypnosis" act, as well as a very tiresome sequence set in a beatnik bar where we have to watch the whole show of beatnik music and poetry. It's a shame, because these really slow down the action. Surely it would not have been to difficult to make the actual storyline events take up some more time.The acting is ok, although a little hammy. The story actually has a really brutal side to it, as the methods the ladies use to self-harm are all pretty twisted. We don't witness many of them happening, but seeing somebody screaming with their hair fully ablaze is quite something for 1960 (even if it's not very realistic). Some of the "after" make up of the others victims is also pretty good.If all the padding was stripped out, this would rattle along and be a lot more fun, but it would be over in less than an hour! The plot really is tiny and there is barely any quality time given to the climax, in fact events dash to the closing credits with far too much haste...a little time spent on a proper ending and explanation would have been nice. Still, it's pretty entertaining while it lasts.

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.

plum-blossom The new burn-on-demand DVD from Warner's has a solid, widescreen print with only minor speckling and one or two "cigarette burns" - a surprisingly good remaster of a loopy shocker that I've been waiting to see in a good print for years. Allison Hayes is luscious and sinister, Merry Andrews reminds me of Simone Simon in profile, and although I had a crush on the Great Desmond when I saw this as a youngster, Jacques Bergerac is just plain oily now, although possibly the perfect actor to play the part. A silly, but fun, bit of psychotronic fluff that's best viewed with a wide-open mind and one's critical faculties set at their lowest point.

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.