The Hypnotic Eye

The Hypnotic Eye (1960)

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

Data de estreia
1960-02-17
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (28)
Duração
1 h 19 min
Géneros
Terror
Realizador
George Blair

Elenco

Curiosidades

The Hypnotic Eye is a 1960 horror film, released by Allied Artists on February 27, 1960, starring Jacques Bergerac, Allison Hayes, Merry Anders, Joe Patridge and Ferdinand Demara.

Production background

Some scenes showing Eric "Big Daddy" Nord playing bongo drums and Lawrence Lipton as "King of the Beatniks" were supposedly filmed at Nord's beatnik cafe, The Gas House, in Venice, California. They were actually shot in a studio.

A consultant for the film was hypnotist Gil Boyne. Boyne founded the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and the Hypnotism Training Institute in Glendale, California. He performed live shows between screenings of the film at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco, and went on a press tour to promote the movie. He appeared on numerous TV news and talk shows performing live hypnosis demonstrations.

"Hypnomagic", a concept used to market the film, was not a film process like 3D. It was advertised on the posters as an "Amazing New Audience Thrill", and was claimed to be more organic and a time-tested process. It consisted of Bergerac looking directly into the camera as if performing his hypnosis demonstration for the movie theater audience.

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