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- The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
- A detective pairs himself with a famous psychologist on a case involving a traumatized young witness to a crime.
- Ellen, a hypnotherapist, meets Patrick. His ex stalks him, intriguing Ellen, who wonders if he has ever met her.
- A weird German doctor uses hypnotism, seduction, and criminality to get the better of a trio of spoiled wealthy siblings, in a tribute to old Hollywood Technicolor melodramas.
- The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.
- Following his car crash, Wanda and Greta kidnap the semi-conscious Sylvester into their place. He is then tied up to a bed, hypnotized, whipped and raped by Wanda's women. Can an escaped mental patient break in and even the odds?
- The people of Sirkus Hepokatti decide to organize a big surprise party for Pelle Hermanni, while the ruthless leader of the competing circus wants Pelle Hermanni to become the main attraction of his own circus.
- After a test pilot is injured in a plane crash, his fiancée takes him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist is unhappily married and has a crush on the fiancée, and attempts to hypnotize the pilot into murdering his wife.
- TV Movie
- This time Elmer Fudd goes after Bugs using hypnotism, only the plan backfires.
- Elijah, the brilliant and now banished psychologist, sees no other option but to use the controversial device he created to enter his wife's unconscious mind and attempt to pull her out of her 5 year coma.
- Aria, a young woman struggling with her identity, seeks out the help of a hypnotist to regain control of her life. With the hypnotist's help, Aria learns to let go of her borrowed identity and regain control of her own.
- The villain is the chief of a robber band who plot to slay a rich old miner and steal his wealth. But the chief does not wish to commit the crime himself nor have one of his band actually do it, it, and so he uses his knowledge of hypnotism, by placing a house servant of the old miser under his spell and making him stab the old man when the others make off with the spoils. Weeks go by when one day the sister of the accused servant discovers a cuff link on the floor of the room where the murder was committed and this leads to the capture of the real criminal, who is finally apprehended and made to confess.
- A smart young man is invited to display his skill as a hypnotist at a party. He manages to work the influence until he meets a charming young lady who is also a hypnotist. Their powers over other people clash when they meet and thus instead of exercising an attraction over the other, they are unable to get as near to each other as they would like. The situation becomes serious, as they have fallen in love, but of course, love making is out of the question when the lovers are unable to approach each other. The spell is at last broken by a professional hypnotist, who hypnotizes them both. Under the spell they are again able to act normally; thus things are set right once more. Take heed, ye amateur dabblers in mesmerism, lest ye bungle things slightly and meet a similar fate.
- A note is sent to a young man by the parents of the girl with whom he is in love, making an appointment for the signing of the "marriage contract." The note throws the young gentleman, who is seated in his bedroom when he receives it, into an ecstasy of delight and he dances out of the room in highest spirits. His servant picks up and reads the note and is the reverse of delighted at the prospect of having a mistress introduced to the house and his misgivings are shared by a housemaid to whom he shows the note. On the return of his master he hypnotizes him, and, while he is in the trance, changes places with him, he giving his master the duster and making him do the work while he sits in the armchair. When the young man has cleaned everything thoroughly, he brings him round. Later, the young man is seated at dinner with the servant in attendance, when the latter again throws him into a trance and again changes places, eating the meal while the master waits. The climax comes when the marriage contract is to be signed, for under the command of the servant, who is hidden behind the piano, and is, of course, desirous of breaking off the match, the young man behaves like a maniac, jumping on the furniture and upsetting chairs and tables in such a way that he has to be carried home.
- Professor Mysterio, the noted hypnotist, disagrees with his assistants to such an extent that they all quit in the middle of a rehearsal. No assistants mean no performance and consequently no money. The professor and his manager start in search for new ones. They enter the telegraph office where Andy is employed and decide Andy would make a good subject. After satisfactory terms have been made, both with Andy and his employer, Andy consents to take the job. At the hall, during a matinee performance, Andy is hypnotized and told he is "Sitting Bull," the Indian chief. Andy immediately follows in the footsteps of that noted warrior and starts to massacre the pale faces. All would have gone well, had not a Children's Society agent interfered and arrested Mysterio, which left Andy free to wreck vengeance upon the unsuspecting public, which he does, first by a fight to the death with a cigar store Indian, which he mistakes for the foe of another nation. He next discovers four girls coasting down a hill on a sleigh and kidnaps them for squaws, making them do all the work as squaws should be made to do, build snow houses, carry wood, supply provisions, etc., also do a war dance for the entertainment of their Lord and Master, Big Chief Andy. The neighbors crowd around but dare not interfere. Finally his chum, Lanky, takes his courage in both hands and enters. Andy pounces upon him, tomahawk in hand, but recognizes his old friend and they agree to smoke the pipe of peace. Not liking the taste of the pipe, Andy swaps one of his squaws with Lanky for a cigarette. In the meantime Mysterio learns of Andy's plight and comes to the rescue, but after Andy's mother gets there he decides to be "Sitting Bull" no longer, as he is obliged to eat his meals from the mantel.
- To a reception there is invited a celebrated professor of hypnotism, and during the evening he obliges with an exhibition of his wonderful powers. Several of the guests are put under the influence and made to perform most ridiculous antics, to their embarrassment upon reviving. The daughter of the host is the last to be subjected to the professor's power, and she proves to be such a good subject that the professor at once resolves to make her his unconscious agent in a dastardly plot he at once evolves. Opportunity serves him most graciously, for he meets the lady on the street and, hypnotizing her, suggests she return to her home and rob her father's desk of a large sum of money. The scheme seems to work, but it is an acknowledged fact that a person of good morals cannot be made to commit a crime, by hypnotism, and so, although the girl goes to the house, and even opens the drawer in which the money is placed, she returns without it. On her way back she is followed by her sweetheart, who assails the professor, but is worsted, gagged and bound. Back the professor sends the girl, he following, and at the home she somnambulistically leads him to the desk. He takes the money and leaves her under his hypnotic power. In this condition her father finds her, and failing to arouse her, calls the family physician, who at once suggests a celebrated mind specialist. He is hurriedly called, and using his powers of suggestion on her she is induced to retrace her steps, followed by her father and the doctors. Meanwhile the professor has arrived at his rooms and is hastily packing his effects preparatory to skipping; when the girl and her father, followed by the doctors and a couple of policemen, enter. The professor is overpowered, and made to resuscitate the girl, and taken into custody by the policemen.
- Life story of Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, aka. Olliver Hawk.
- 'The Hypnotist' explored themes of superficiality in the media, hypnotism and the process of discovering your true-self. The beautiful Eva Spicello, beauty expert to the stars presents a successful TV show which, fuels the insecurities of young women who are not happy with their looks. However, she finds herself renegotiating her sense of self when she is involved in a traumatic incident on a side street and a man from her past re-enters her life.
- TV Series
- Alkali Ike eludes his wife and attends a performance at the Snakeville Opera House, where Prof. Hippy is demonstrating his wonderful hypnotic art. Alkali Ike is finally persuaded to go up on the stage. The professor hypnotizes him. The clever and eccentric situation that derive from Alkali being hypnotized, are excruciatingly funny. Mrs. Alkali is finally called in to overcome the hypnotist's influence over her husband, and believe me, she does.
- Mutt and Jeff permit themselves to be hypnotized by a street practitioner, who makes Jeff think he is a dog and Mutt believe he is a cat, but the hypnotist is arrested before undoing his work.
- THE HYPNOTIST is a mind-bending short about a mysterious woman in Los Angeles who performs the ancient art of African Hypnosis. A successful, Hollywood writer enlists her to help him quit smoking -- a habit he picked up again three months ago. Upon asking if anything stressful or traumatic happened to trigger his relapse, the writer claims his life is close to perfect... 'My marriage, six years, is better than ever. The kids are great. I even sold a script to the Network three months ago.' However, it doesn't take long for The Hypnotist to discover that underneath his 'perfect life' lies the dangerous words of an untold story begging to be spoken.
- Most of us have at some time attended an entertainment given by some wonderful exponent of the mysterious art of hypnotism, and have always noted the presence of some cynical sciolist who would brand the professor a blatant fraud. Such an incident opens this picture. The producer of "brainstorms-while-you-wait" is entertaining his audience with the antics of those under his soporific influence, when the fellow with the not-if-I-know-it expression appears and challenges the professor. What follows is most cogent and convincing, but he takes his conviction with such an ugly grace that the hypnotist becomes his avowed nemesis, and so follows him for some time. First, the professor, disguised as a musician, attends a dance, where he turns his victim into a veritable whirling dervish, and in the midst of his gyroscopic evolutions wakes him to fully realize his embarrassment before an almost panic-stricken assemblage. Next he appears at a banquet disguised as a waiter. Here he induces the cynic to become crazy drunk, and after attempting to kiss the ladies present, he leaps on the table, kicks the dishes in all directions and performs such feats on the chandelier that would cause the most wonderful trapeze artist to turn green with envy. Again, the awful awakening. During a wedding service the professor makes him believe he is the bridegroom, and before he can be restrained he rushes up, hurls the happy man aside and takes his, place at the altar beside the trembling bride-elect, to the consternation of all present. As he regains his normal senses he espies the cause of his plight just leaving the church. He dashes madly after him, out of the church, and down the street after the cab into which the hypnotist jumps to elude him. As the professor alights from the cab our friend rushes up, but is again put under the egregious hypnotic influence and made to chase the professor's cane, which is carried off by another man. Down the street they race, into an apartment house, then out through a window on the lower floor, up the fire-escape and through a window on the top floor of an apartment, throwing the occupants into a tumult of excitement At the entrance he is seized by a couple of stalwart policemen and dragged off to the Insane Pavilion of Bellevue Hospital, where he is relieved of his hallucination, now a firm believer in the theories of the venerable Dr. Mesmer. While the above is a chronicle of events, it but feebly describes the continuous laugh-producing situations of the film.
- Our intrepid man with a camera is hired to film a wedding and becomes embroiled in an odd and dangerous love triangle.
- A hypnotist visits Max in the studio and offers to teach him the power of mind control. Max has fun turning the Inkwell Clown into a donkey, and while the hypnotist levitates Max's female colleague, the Clown battles his own shadow.
- An evil hypnotist gets uses his powers to secure the woman of his dreams only to discover that true love will get its revenge.
- The professor holds captive by hypnotism his daughter, Marjorie, from the time she is a child until she has grown to womanhood. Tarred, feathered and driven out of town, leaving his child to be adopted into the family of Judge White, he returns after many years to reassert his complete mastery over her inner mind. The child obeys him and steals away from the foster parents and they employ a detective to run down the thief. The latter falls in love with the girl. The professor causes his child to become a thief stealing jewels, and finally the two disappear and the detective begins a world-wide search for them. The closing scene occurs In a great New York theater. Marjorie appears on the stage as an Egyptian mystic with a huge snake entwined around her neck. In the midst of the scene the professor drops dead. Her father's death has broken the spell and thus true love and Innocence again secures its just reward.
- Oscar, a dog with paranormal powers, and his master, Werner Hirsch, tell their stories through a TV crew.
- Jack and Jim, according to the story, are in love with the same girl, and each is endeavoring to use all the arts of persuasion to win her over. Jack is stout and jolly and Jim is thin and prides himself upon being an amateur hypnotist. At a house party Jim displays his cleverness to good advantage and succeeds in keeping the guests amused. This angers Jack, who stoutly maintains that the hypnotic spell is simply a fake and that he defies anyone to place him under the influence. Jim accepts the challenge and proceeds to do the Svengali act with his rival. There is immediate action. The portly Jack is made to believe that he is a gallant soldier, and after being supplied with a military cap and toy musket marches throughout the house in quest of the imaginary enemy. He encounters all sorts of obstacles and manages to overcome them through the medium of demolishing almost everything in sight, although human life is spared. The warfare of the "general" might have gone on for an indefinite period had not Jim been notified of the dilemma. At that precise moment the amateur hypnotist was courting the girl in the story, and at her behest he consents to awaken Jack from his hypnotic spell. The finale is amusing, and, of course. Jack accepts the inevitable when he is told of the depredations he has committed while under the spell of hypnotism.
- Swengaully, a hypnotist, endeavors to win the love of Mrs. Morgan, a young widow, from Sam Patch, her promised husband. Sam calls and finds her under the influence of the hypnotist. He goes to Swengaully's house to warn him to keep away from the widow, but finds that his rival is still at Mrs. Morgan's. While waiting at Swengaully's home he discovers a book on hypnotism and learns through it that he can exert hypnotic power at a distance. He calls Mrs. Morgan up on the telephone and begins to exercise this power over her by telling her to make faces at the Professor, which she does. Swengaully is amazed. Sam takes the book under his arm and hastens to his loved one's home and with the further aid of the book, subjects the mesmerizer to his will and makes a regular "goat" of him by causing him to make ardent love to the housemaid in a most foolish manner. To still further humiliate him, he brings him back to a normal condition and then gives him a couple of good, swift kicks, which accelerate his departure into the cold, cold world.
- "A hypnotist exercises his mystic science upon a bill board, and brings the figures of two ballet girls to life from the paper."
- A well-known magician and hypnotist is invited to attend a house party given by a very rich man. When he makes his entrance he is greeted very warmly by the host and his guests. He is invited to perform several of his best known tricks to amuse the company. After delighting them with many feats of prestidigitation which are truly interesting, they partake of some refreshments and some of the men get together for a friendly game of cards. To make the game more interesting, the magician suggests that they play for money. He is soon seated at the table and an interesting game is now in action. It does not take very long before he wins all the money from those with whom he is playing, but they also perceive that he has come to his gains unfairly. By his sleight of hand tricks he is able to conceal cards and make rapid changes to come out ahead. When his trickery is discovered they immediately chase him from the house and he is pursued by all the guests. The chase is a good one in which the incidents are very amusing. He is finally pursued back to the house where he turns about, hypnotizes them and then leaves the house in peace.
- An impecunious hypnotist compels his subject to rob a bank and return to him with the proceeds, with which he departs. The subject complies in every detail and successfully eludes the police, but is traced and taken into custody, subsequent to being released from the influence of the hypnotist. The real perpetrator is discovered and, when arrested, is found with the proceeds of the daring robbery upon his person, cast into jail and the innocent man released.
- Brown calls on Miss White, who is entertaining Green and Redd, two rival lovers. The girl leaves the room for a moment, and Redd and Green start a rough house with Brown and kick him out. Brown swears to get even. He goes to a hypnotist to learn how to hypnotize people. He tries some experiments on a messenger boy, and apple woman and a policeman that are, we believe, the funniest that have ever been done in pictures. Then he visits Miss White. Enter Redd and Green. Brown hypnotizes both of his rivals. He makes Redd believe that he is a dog and Green believe that he is a cat. While these two men are down on all fours and having a cat and dog battle all about the room, upsetting furniture and snapping at each other. Then dog follows cat out of the window, and the girl begs Brown to follow them. He does. He finds Green up a tree and Redd on hands and knees hopping about and barking and striking at Green. Brown snaps his fingers and the two men wake up, give one look at each other and the assembled crowd and "bet it." The next evening Brown calls on Miss White again. Enter Redd. He gives one look at Brown, dashes out. Enter Green. When he sees Brown he dives for the door in a hurry. The girl decides that Green and Redd must be crazy, and Brown wins the girl.