A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of female mutilation victims.A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of female mutilation victims.A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of female mutilation victims.
Eric Nord
- King of the Beatniks
- (as Eric 'Big Daddy' Nord)
Jimmy Lydon
- Emergency Doctor
- (as James Lydon)
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- Crazy creditsRather than listing the character he plays, one actor is listed in the main credits as "FRED DEMARA (THE GREAT IMPOSTER)" to emphasize that he was the real life subject of the popular movie "The Great Impostor" (1960) that was released the same year.
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Solid and overall entertaining
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.
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.
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- kannibalcorpsegrinder
- May 10, 2013
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- The Screaming Sleep
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- $365,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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