The Hypnotic Eye (1960) on Netflix
Detective Dave Kennedy asks psychiatrist Philip Hecht about women mutilating their faces. At the stage show of the hypnotist Desmond, the assistant Justine picks Dodie Wilson as a volunteer.
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Plot summary
A woman washing her hair mistakes a lit gas burner for the sink and sets her hair on fire. She cannot remember why and soon dies. In the following months, ten more women mutilate their faces. Detective Dave Kennedy asks his friend Dr. Philip Hecht, a psychiatrist and hypnosis expert, about the cases. Kennedy, his girlfriend Marcia Blaine, and Dodie Wilson, Marcia's friend, see the stage show of hypnotist Desmond. Desmond asks for three women volunteers, and his assistant Justine picks two, including Dodie. He makes Dodie rigid and levitates her, whispering in her ear before waking her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
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- For the film's "Hypnomagic" gimmick, Jacques Bergerac's character looks straight into the camera to perform hypnotic suggestibility tests on the movie audience, and in the original theatrical run every ticket holder was given an eye-printed balloon to use in one of the tests.
- In the 1960s Kodak turned the film's scene of a woman in a trance washing her hair in a stove into a lenticular photograph that made her head appear to catch fire when moved up and down, and handed it out to buyers to promote its new photo process.
- Scenes of Eric "Big Daddy" Nord playing bongo drums and Lawrence Lipton as the "King of the Beatniks" were supposedly filmed at Nord's beatnik cafe, The Gas House, in Venice, California, but were actually shot in a studio.
