All about hypnosis and related subjects in the media
A student has a violent argument with his professor, storms out of class, then returns several minutes later, brandishing a gun and shoots the professor before the entire class. Its a classic open and shut case, except the student doesn’t remember anything of the incident. That’s what gets Petrocelli’s attention.
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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.
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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.
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.
It just goes to show that there’s always something else to discover out there, even when dealing with such a narrow field of interest as the cross-over between hypnosis and media. As a major superhero comic fan and being somewhat knowledgeable about their history, I thought I knew of most every superheroic hypnotist but there is one that I learned about only recently.
That superhero is “Hip Knox — The Super Hypnotist”. Hip Knox appeared in Superworld Comics #1–3, along with his bitter rival, a thuggish criminal named McFadden.
But there’s a story behind the comic and the hero.
Two entries this week, one expected and one unexpected. The first, “Zatanna”, is a title I normally collect, the second one, “Batman Annual”, that I normally don’t bother with but examined just because it was new this week, and I’m glad I did.
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