Konterr Brilliant and touching

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

kydajo2 And this is high camp. The 40's and 50's were the decades of great B movies and this one's right up there. Each scene is a little gem. From the various disfigurements to the coffee house poetry reading to the obvious strings holding up the woman "defying gravity" to the doctor in his highly stylized (right down to the choice of dog) apartment playing his piano in a short silk robe open to the waist to the climax when all is revealed. And as others have mentioned, the cops are dumb as rocks. All in all, it's just a hoot!This movie requires just a small investment of time and it's worth every minute of it.

Jimmy L. Hearing that THE HYPNOTIC EYE (1960) was a campy horror flick, I was prepared for the movie to be much worse than it is. It's certainly a B-grade chiller, but as other reviewers have said it is very watchable. Much better, I'd say, than ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958), for instance.A series of self-inflicted disfigurements by beautiful women stump police detective Dave Kennedy (Joe Patridge), who is convinced there's something more than coincidence at play. The victims aren't conscious of their bizarre actions and seem to be acting under some kind of trance. One night, by coincidence, Kennedy takes his girlfriend Marcia (Marcia Henderson) to see exotic stage hypnotist Desmond (Jacques Bergerac). By now viewers can guess where the story is headed, but even after the next curious self-disfigurement victim is someone who was hypnotized on-stage by Desmond, it's only Marcia who suspects a connection with the hypnotist. Dave is too skeptical of Desmond's hocus-pocus to give the matter a second thought. "Why would Desmond want to disfigure beautiful women?" That's what you're supposed to be finding out, Dave! That's your job! Marcia takes matters into her own hands, volunteering to be hypnotized by Desmond for the sake of the investigation.Dave's actions as both a police officer and a boyfriend occasionally frustrate the viewer, especially when Marcia is in the belly of the beast, so to speak, and he's willing to leave her alone in her apartment overnight after she meets with Desmond. Hello! Hypnotism! Luckily the skeptic Dave is paired with Dr. Hecht (Guy Prescott), a police psychologist or something who knows the power of hypnosis. With Marcia in danger, it's up to Dave and Dr. Hecht to solve the case before it's too late.The movie is suspenseful, even if the plot is predictable. Reminiscent of William Castle gimmick films like THE TINGLER (1959), the movie tries to involve the audience in Desmond's act. Desmond stares directly into the camera. Point-of-view shots of the titular object, with Desmond's power of suggestion, threaten to hypnotize the audience themselves. The movie also seeks to shock viewers with the horrifically scarred faces of the victims, as well as the unforgettable hair-on-fire and acid face wash scenes.I don't recall seeing Marcia Henderson in any other movie, but she is sooooooo beautiful here as the cop's girlfriend. Allison Hayes, the 50-foot woman herself, plays Desmond's sexy assistant with a secret. This hypnosis thriller is pretty fun, even if the cops are dumb and the mysterious strobing Hypnotic Eye is never really explained.

GL84 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.

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.