HYPNO-VISTA!!! Who can resist a gimmick like that, I certainly can't. I mean lets be honest doesn't everyone want to be put in the picture and "feel the acid vat of death!"
Well like most gimmicks Hypno-Vista amounts to nothing more than a 15 min. tacked on prologue to delightfully lurid little British shocker produced by Herman Cohen. Michael Gough gives a wickedly over the top performance as the arrogant Edmond Bancroft, a crime columnist/novelist who is always one step ahead of Scotland Yard in investigating a series of brutal/gimmicky murders. Why is he smarter the the Law? Well thats because he's behind this crime wave, planning murder after murder from his own personal Black Museum and with the aid of his unaware hypnotized assistant.
This is one of those movies that I first experienced in the early 1970's on NY's WPIX 11's Chiller Theater when I was just a little monster. It's a fun little thriller that certainly didn't need hypnosis to improve it. Come to think of it Hypno-Vista would be so useful with todays crop (or is it crap) of films, there are quite a few I'd like to be mentally induced into forgetting.
Add this movie to your collection...
http://www.amazon.com/Horrors-Black-Museum-Michael-Gough/dp/B000087F3A
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