“Death Note”
What can you do when you have the power of life and death, especially traceless, unstoppable death, over anyone you can name? In “Death Note”, Light Yagami discovers that despite his best (and worst) intentions, no real good can come of it.
A Comics-Based Makeover
“They Came From Hyde Brothers” — 2011/01/15
Milestone
“The Hypnotic Eye” (1960) Part I
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Beautiful women disfigure themselves under the hypnotic control of a suave stage hypnotist and his sinister assistant. Part I (here) consists of a description of and the history of the movie: subsequent parts will include selections of the promotional material and press images (from my extensive collection) generated to promote the movie.
This Week in Comics — 2011/01/12
“The Hypnotic Eye” — It Has Arrived!
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For those of you not familiar with this little curiosity of a movie, “The Hypnotic Eye” is a B&W horror movie from 1960 and featured a suave hypnotist whose female subjects all disfigured themselves. It has been a minor quest of mine to locate a decent and legal copy of it for my collection, but for years, the only copies available were obvious bootleg copies of varying quality.
When I first was aware of the availability of the DVD through Amazon, I was skeptical about the quality, but it also was the only way to get a legitimate copy, so about two weeks ago I ordered a copy as a Christmas present for myself.
Well, today, it arrived, and here’s my reaction to it.
“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969)
James Bond (George Lazenby) is on the trail of Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), now hiding in an exclusive clinic in Switzerland. Blofeld’s latest scheme is a world-wide blackmail plot, assisted by a number of lovely ladies under Blofeld’s hypnotic control. Complicating matters is the mutual attraction Bond feels toward Tracy di Vicenso (Diana Rigg), daughter of the head of the Union Corse crime syndicate.

