Hypnotized Women Scenes
by eviltwinmordred | created - 03 Jun 2022 | updated - 4 days ago | PublicA list of my favorite movies and television episodes depicting women hypnotized, brainwashed, and or under similar, trance based mind control. I don’t consider possession to be mind control, so I have not included those examples unless a woman is clearly hypnotized as well. I include sleepwalking so long as it’s clear some outside intelligence or influence is causing the somnambulism. Many of these scenes address my other interest, which should be apparent. Finally, I’m limiting this list to scenes I’ve personally seen.
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1. Breeders (1997)
R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien travels to Earth on a meteorite and mates with humans to preserve its species and destroy humanity.
Director: Paul Matthews | Stars: Todd Jensen, Samantha Womack, Oliver Tobias, Kadamba Simmons
Votes: 1,343
Lousy movie but one of the greatest barefoot Hypno scenes of all time. Horror movie host Joe Bob Briggs said about the scene: “Did I just see 20 barefoot girl zombies?” Yes, Joe Bob, you did.
Also known as “Breeders” ( not to be confused with the late 80’s film with that name, another Hypno classic.)
2. Prime Evil (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror
A coven of devil-worshiping monks living in New York City search for victims for their sacrificial ceremonies.
Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: William Beckwith, Christine Moore, Mavis Harris, Max Jacobs
Votes: 946
Really good, seductive hypnotic inductions by the evil priest on no less than four attractive women, resulting in their complete enslavement.
Many highlights, but the best for me is the “Look into my eyes” induction of a topless blonde. The hypnotist dialogue could have been written by an EMCSA author, and the girl does a great reaction from terrified to utter entranced attraction and subservience.
A must see.
October 2022 Update: the movie is available on YouTube for free, but, sadly, heavily edited including my favorite scene described above.
3. The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Crime
Fu Manchu blackmails several industrialists and scientists into helping him construct a super-weapon by kidnapping their daughters and wives.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Heinz Drache, Marie Versini
Votes: 1,391
The Classic. Many hypnotized women, many scantily clad, though sadly for me wearing hose. Still, a must see. A high point is one slave bride looking submissively at Fu and demurely asking “Did I do well?”
Make sure you keep watching until the final shot.
4. The Vengeance of She (1968)
G | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Carol, a beautiful young girl is possessed by Ayesha's spirit who was once the queen of Kuma. Ayesha's spirit gains control over Carol to achieve her malevolent goals.
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: John Richardson, Olga Schoberová, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely
Votes: 1,043
Absolutely gorgeous heroine who spends the entire movie under a telepathic, mesmeric influence. This culminates with her trekking barefoot on a dangerous cliff and then even more overt hypnotic control. Highly recommended.
5. Breeders (1986)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Manhattan General Hospital admitted a string of young women raped by something otherworldly. Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims to find the fiend.
Director: Tim Kincaid | Stars: Teresa Farley, Lance Lewman, Frances Sherman, Natalie Savage
Votes: 2,644
A sleezy sci fi bit from the 80’s. When the aliens summon the entranced ladies, the gals sleepwalk naked to their masters.
6. Hot Under the Collar (1992)
R | 87 min | Comedy
A man dresses as a nun to save his girlfriend from a convent.
Director: Richard Gabai | Stars: Richard Gabai, Melinda Clarke, Rajnish Babakan, Jeff Bowser
Votes: 208
Made for video comedy where the hero hypnotizes his girlfriend, but she ends up in a convent. A movie to insult both Catholics and feminists. Quick glimpses of the hypnotized girl friend barefoot.
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
PG | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
British agent James Bond goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is planning to hold the world to ransom.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 99,487 | Gross: $22.80M
The rarest of rarities: a top notch A Level production where hypnotized ladies are a significant plot point. Great induction scenes, and several beautiful model/actresses in trances. (Look for an early performance from Catherine Schell, who also is on this list for two episodes of “Space 1999”).
Also, an underrated Bond film in general.
8. The Climax (1944)
Passed | 86 min | Horror, Music, Thriller
A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 1,036
Boris Karloff plays a demented doctor who secretly sabotages the career of a beautiful soprano with hypnosis. Great Hypno prop with lights and multicolored mirrors.
9. Dracula (2002– )
R | 173 min | Drama, Horror
Bram Stoker's classic is given a frightful telling, as an attractive, ambitious group of 30-year-olds travel through Hungary looking for lucrative deals, unaware of the horrific threat hanging over their lives.
Stars: Patrick Bergin, Hardy Krüger Jr., Stefania Rocca, Muriel Baumeister
Votes: 477
Maybe the best movie for bare feet, sleepwalking, and hypnosis on this list. This is an Italian television miniseries updating the Dracula story to the modern era. The Lucy character, just as in the novel, is a chronic sleepwalker. There is an early scene in part one where she sleepwalks and obliviously tumbles down some stairs. In Part 2, she is hypnotically summoned by Dracula. Close ups show her bare feet under his guidance carefully probing the stairs so to avoid falling again. Once she is down the stairs, she goes out in a rainstorm to join her Master in her white nightgown. The actress is quite beautiful in this extended mesmeric summoning scene.
10. Splitz (1982)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Music
An all-female rock band and a group of "well-endowed" sorority sisters team up to save a sorority house slated for condemnation by the university.
Director: Domonic Paris | Stars: Robin Johnson, Barbara Bingham, Patti Lee, Chuck McQuary
Votes: 186
Goofy piece of 80’s sex comedy. The “b” plot involves the hero’s best friend who has no luck with the ladies. The hero shows him a “How to Get Chicks Through Hypnosis” course, and he proves to be a natural. Several beauties, and one especially unattractive women, fall under his spell. Brief bare foot glimpses of the beauties.
Top dialogue: “I know how this must look, Chuck…me and a half dozen, hypnotized, half naked Hooter College freshmen…..”
11. Our Man Flint (1966)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare
Votes: 7,094 | Gross: $16.00M
The classic 60’s Spy Hypno movie. It gave the world the phrase “Pleasure Unit”. Great Hypno brainwashing chairs with psychedelic spirals and trippy space music. The hypnotized pleasure units in the ice cave reward room are barefoot.
The sequel “In Like Flint” refers to subliminal brainwashing hair dryers but you see no woman under trance.
Repeat after me, ladies: “It is an honor to use my body in the service of Galaxy”.
12. Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
R | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After killing his disciple, three English gentlemen unwittingly resurrect Count Dracula, who seeks to avenge his servant by making the trio die by the hands of their own children.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden
Votes: 6,885
A great one for corruption fans. Dracula uses the offspring of his enemies for revenge. Three are turned into vampires. The fourth, a pretty blonde, is instead placed under absolute hypnotic servitude.
13. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
G | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a Monsignor accidentally brings Count Dracula back from the dead while exorcising his castle, the vampire preys on the holy man's beautiful niece and her friends.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing
Votes: 8,195
Perhaps my favorite Hammer Dracula both as a movie and for hypnosis. Among others, the absolutely gorgeous Veronica Carlson gets enslaved, mostly in a low cut nightgown and barefoot. One of my favorite scenes has her in the back of a wagon with Dracula’s coffin during the day. She’s shown entranced, kissing and otherwise adoring the coffin. The movie also shows how being Dracula’s barefoot slave can be hard on the feet.
14. The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
M | 92 min | Adventure, Crime
Fu Manchu poisons and hypnotizes ten women to bring down his enemies, including Nayland Smith, with kisses of death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford, Götz George
Votes: 1,526
Jess Franco directs the last Christopher Lee Fu Manchu film. A score of beautiful women, barefoot and in togas are kidnapped and taken to Fu’s Amazon secret lair. They are bitten by snakes which gives them poisonous kisses. They are then hypnotized to become Fu’s assassins. Definitely worth a watch, though there is far too few Hypno scenes surrounded by far too many pointless scenes.
15. Feel So Good (2022)
93 min | Thriller
A desperate hypnotist uses a young woman to unknowingly perform crimes, leaving her with strained relationships and fragmented memories.
Director: Benjamin Tefera | Stars: Elias Aregaw, Christopher Beasley, Tisha Brown, Parris Chariz
Votes: 11
Recent movie. A con man hypnotist finds the perfect subject, a pretty young woman who becomes his criminal accomplice. Two caveats: the best scenes are in the first half with the rest disappointing. Also, be warned, the movie is based on a short film with the same title where the subject is male. Make sure you find the full feature.
16. Big Bug (2022)
TV-MA | 111 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Zylberstein, Claude Perron, Stéphane De Groodt
Votes: 10,461
A recent release from France. Only one scene, but it’s a doozy, for both Hypno and bare feet fans alike.
17. Count Dracula (1970)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm
Votes: 3,801
Another telling of Stoker’s novel, this time by Jess Franco (who I suspect had a hypnosis fetish). Great hypnotic summoning from bed scenes with Lucy in a nightgown and barefoot.
18. Embrace of the Vampire (1995)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.
Director: Anne Goursaud | Stars: Martin Kemp, Rebecca Ferratti, Alyssa Milano, Glori Gold
Votes: 6,949
Great opening, with a nightgowned and barefoot heroine hypnotically summoned to cross a college campus.
19.
Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode:
Attack Angels
(1981)
Not Rated | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When the Angels investigate a couple of suspicious deaths at Western Techtronics, Julie falls under the trance of a hypnotist who specializes in using brainwashed young women as killers.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Tanya Roberts, David Doyle
Votes: 185
Perhaps the greatest hypnotized women episode in television history. So many scenes, including hypnotic brainwashing of women in bikinis in sensory deprivation tanks. The evil mastermind is played by Eric Braeden, who had earlier played a villainous hypnotist in the “Hawaii 50” episode “A Bullet for McGarrett”.
There’s a reference to Charlie giving the Angels training in hypnotic resistance. Based on this episode and “The Seance”, he needs to get his money back.
20.
Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode:
The Seance
(1976)
Not Rated | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Rich widows and widowers are hypnotized into thinking their deceased spouses still manage their business affairs from the 'other side.
Director: George W. Brooks | Stars: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle
Votes: 293
The often overlooked “other” “Charlie’s Angels”Hypno episode. The gorgeous Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) falls under the sway of a conman hypnotist. The highlight for me is when he telephonically summons her from bed. As she rises, she grabs a dressing gown, but does not pause for slippers. Later you clearly see that she has gone to him barefoot.
21.
Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode:
The Pied Piper
(1977)
TV-G | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rock and Roll star, Hamlin Rule hypnotizes his female fans, to rob his concerts for him.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Norman Burton, Martin Mull
Votes: 225
A great Hypno episode of the campy 70’s series. In perhaps the greatest miss castings of all time. Martin Mull plays a rock star flautist who is bitter against the music industry. He uses hypnotized female groupies (including an all grown up Jan Plumb from “The Brady Bunch”) to rob his concert venues. Great poolside scene where the entranced groupies are in swimsuits, several barefoot. Even Wonder Woman, disguised as Diana Prince, is briefly hypnotized.
22. Alison's Birthday (1981)
99 min | Horror, Mystery
A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
Director: Ian Coughlan | Stars: Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal
Votes: 1,252
An Australian horror movie with some nice swinging pendant inductions.
23.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
Leap, My Lovely
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jeff is hired after movie star Nita Maran is hypnotized by bit player Ferini. The ex-con is threatens to shut down an expensive film unless he's paid a small fortune. Jeff and his ... See full summary »
Director: Irving J. Moore | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Edd Byrnes, Louis Quinn
Votes: 39
A wonderful, unexpected hypnosis episode from a cool private eye show. A criminal hypnotist uses his powers on two beautiful actresses so he can extort a movie studio. No real induction scenes, but plenty of post hypnotic triggering.
24.
The Prisoner (1967–1968)
Episode:
A Change of Mind
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a brawl, Number Six is declared "unmutual" and is made to think that he has undergone "instant social treatment."
Director: Patrick McGoohan | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Angela Browne, John Sharp, Angelo Muscat
Votes: 762
Great “Turning the Table” plot. Number Six is being drugged and manipulated by the villains. He sees through the scheme and drugs, then actually hypnotizes a beautiful agent. Lovely induction using a psychotropic drug and a wristwatch, followed by a post hypnotic trigger. Notable in that the hypnotist is the series hero.
25. El mundo de los vampiros (1961)
83 min | Horror
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the vampires in Europe.
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Guillermo Murray, Silvia Fournier, Mauricio Garcés, Erna Martha Bauman
Votes: 227
Several scenes of vampiric hypnosis on the ladies. The high point for me is with one lady hypnotically summoned from bed, with several shots of her bare feet as she goes to her Master.
26. The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
TV-14 | 65 min | Horror
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Portillo | Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 412
One of my schlocky favorites. The second film in the Aztec Mummy series. In the first “The Aztec Mummy”, the hero’s fiancé is hypnotically regressed to her life as an Aztec princess. In this sequel, the villain kidnaps her to use her subconscious link to the Aztec Mummy to find its treasure. She defiantly tells the villain that she’ll resist any attempt to hypnotize her. He responds by first giving her a will suppressing injection. She’s kidnapped from bed, with the thugs grabbing a robe but no slippers. She finishes the movie barefoot, with great views after she is hypnotized.
27. Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
Thrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behavior, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg in pursuit of wealth and prestige. He soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews
Votes: 3,463
Great Hypno, lousy history. The only negative for me is that the prettiest actress in the film is never put under.
28. The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
When car trouble strands a honeymooning couple in a small Southern European village, an aristocratic family in the area reaches out to help them with sinister consequences.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Clifford Evans, Edward de Souza, Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel
Votes: 3,918
Wonderful Hammer Vampire with great hypnosis scenes involving two separate hypnotized ladies. Many scenes, including an innovative use of music as an induction device. Great scene of the heroine rejecting her husband under the command of the vampire.
29. The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)
R | 83 min | Horror
Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.
Directors: Luigi Batzella, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Esmeralda Barros, Enza Sbordone
Votes: 1,039
Sleazy Italian vampire movie. The villain has a ring that enables her to hypnotize young women. She uses it to summon the nearby village’s beauties from bed to come to her castle. Long scene of the village girls and their barefooted trek through the town and countryside.
30. Camp Fear (1991 Video)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Some sorority sisters opt for camping in the woods with a handsome professor instead of a Palm Springs spring break. However, their orgy is interrupted when some Druids find them and decide... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Edward Keith | Stars: Vincent Van Patten, Betsy Russell, Peggy McIntaggart, Mike Diamant
Votes: 365
An odd, cheaply made film. The villain is an ancient Celtic giant shaman. He kidnaps four coeds and dresses them in fur bikinis. They’re barefoot. He then forces them to drink a hypnotic portion that puts them under his spell.
31. Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A couple invites a Count from Hungary, who recently immigrated to America, to conduct a seance for the woman's recently deceased mother, oblivious to the fact that he is actually a vampire.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready
Votes: 3,097 | Gross: $0.21M
A great Southern California early 70’s take on the Vampire movie. Count Yorga plays the part of a New Age mystic. At a seance, he telepathically hypnotizes the heroine. He later bites and dominates another beautiful lady. Wonderful scene of him summoning her from bed, barefoot and in a plunging nightgown, in an extremely sensuous scene. The heroine gets telepathically hypnotized again, and is later summoned from bed. A must see.
32. The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
R | 97 min | Horror
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder
Votes: 1,523
This sequel has another heroine hypnotized by the Count, but mostly just for amnesia, which is not one of the more interesting uses for me.
33.
Spy Game (1997)
Episode:
You Just Can't Trust Anybody These Days
(1997)
TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a four-star general hypnotizes Max, turning her into an assassin, Lorne and Micah must prevent the President's murder, capture Max and save her.
Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Linden Ashby, Allison Smith, Jennifer Birchfield-Eick, Maury Ginsberg
Votes: 15
The series was a fun throwback to the spy shows of the 60’s. As such, it had to have at least one brainwash episode, and boy, it did not disappoint. It turns out the female lead had been hypnotically programmed in her military days. A rogue general uses her induction trigger-3 flashes of a lighter- to control her and use her in his attempted coup. Highly recommended.
34. The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
Approved | 79 min | Horror
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of female mutilation victims.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson, Allison Hayes
Votes: 906
A sleazy artifact from the Beatnik Era with some great hypnosis. On the negative side many ladies are compelled to mutilate themselves. A plus side, it has one of best hypnotic seduction scenes, with plenty of steamy kissing.
35. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 23,413 | Gross: $19.74M
Fun attempt at a prequel for the consulting detective. The villain uses hypnosis on girls, including the hero’s girlfriend.
36. The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
Director: Léa Fazer | Stars: Marie Denarnaud, Aïssa Maïga, Grégori Derangère, Bruno Debrandt
Votes: 275
A French television movie. The heroine and her girlfriend are hypnotically controlled by the murderer.
37. To Seduce an Enemy (2003)
98 min | Crime, Thriller
A billionaire in real estate uses his hypnotic powers to seduce women in his company and others, then makes them commit suicide. A nosy reporter's friend is one of the victims, now she's willing to do anything to get her vengeance.
Director: Bowie Lau | Stars: Winnie Leung, Kar Lok Chin, Chun Lai, Jewel Lee
Votes: 72
A great Hypno movie. An evil psychiatrist turned developer uses his hypnotic skills on various women for seduction, implanting the trigger “It’s Me”. 4 pretty women are hypnotized and programmed.
38.
Love, American Style (1969–1974)
Episode:
Love and the Hand Maiden/Love and the Hot Spell/Love and the Laughing Lover/Love and the Perfect Set-Up
(1973)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman is willing to remove everything but her gloves. A bride undergoes hypnosis in order to relax. A woman is prone to hysterical laughing upsetting social events. A young girl finds the... See full summary »
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson, Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Jed Allan, Michael Burns, James T. Callahan, Patrick Campbell
Votes: 26
This was a comedy anthology series of the early 70’s. Each episode was divided into 2-4 stand-alone segments. “Love and the Hot Spell” involved a nervous bride. The groom asks his Best Man to hypnotize her for the wedding so she can be calm. The Best Man adds a little bonus for the wedding night, a command that she will become very amourous and affectionate when she hears the word “umbrella”. A rain storm breaks out, and hijinks ensue. The bride is very pretty, and does a nice trance face.
39. Beach Fever (1987)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A young Japanese entrepreneur is set on a quest by his wealthy father to find the world's best opening line in order to "get the girl". But when they stumble upon a sure-fire love potion, mayhem ensues.
Director: Alexander Tabrizi | Stars: Kato Kaelin, Rodney Ueno, Judea Brittain, Jeff Asch
Votes: 158
I’m on the fence as to whether love potion scenes count as “mind control”. I included this one as the ladies are portrayed as being very suggestible and in trances. Plus some of them are in bikinis and bare feet.
40. Svengali (1931)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 2,500
The best adaptation of the classic hypnosis novel. Plus, the novel’s focus on Trilby’s bare feet is not ignored.
41. Doctor Dracula (1983)
R | 88 min | Horror
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
Directors: Al Adamson, Paul Aratow | Stars: John Carradine, Don 'Red' Barry, Larry Hankin, Geoffrey Land
Votes: 497
A sleaze fest with a couple of hypnosis scenes.
42. Svengali (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer, and how she escapes from his influence only by his death.
Director: Noel Langley | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, Derek Bond
Votes: 191
Another take on the classic tale, this one with no bare feet.
43. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
R | 128 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 238,542 | Gross: $82.52M
Coppola’s adaptation. Great Lucy sleepwalking under the Count’s hypnosis, barefoot in a striking red nightgown.
44. Blood for Dracula (1974)
R | 106 min | Horror
An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.
Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry
Votes: 6,589 | Gross: $0.28M
Dracula comes to Italy to find a “Wirgin” bride. He stays with a family with 4 nubile ladies. He bites two of them, and they become his hypnotized thralls aiding him in acquiring their virginal sister. They’re barefoot and nightgowns while enslaved.
45. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Mel Brooks' parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber
Votes: 45,209 | Gross: $10.77M
Mel Brooks’s take, mostly satirizing the Coppola version. Three ladies hypnotized in funny scenes spoofing many Hypno tropes. For instance, you want to be careful when you give the “You will forget” command.
46. Dracula 2000 (2000)
R | 99 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A group of thieves breaks into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing.
Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Gerard Butler, Justine Waddell, Jonny Lee Miller, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 36,488 | Gross: $33.02M
Another attempt to update the Stoker tale. Overwrought back story given to the count, but some pretty ladies get put under the spell.
47. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
PG | 96 min | Horror
In 1972 London - a century after his final battle with Professor Van Helsing - Count Dracula is resurrected by occultist Johnny Alucard, and goes after his archenemy's descendants.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame
Votes: 7,448
Hammer brought the Count to the Swinging 70’s. The beautiful Catherine Munro and Stephanie Beechum get sensuously hypnotized, with Stephanie barefoot in a sacrificial gown at the end. Very nice.
48. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Director: Brian Clemens | Stars: Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro
Votes: 5,695 | Gross: $0.12M
A very fun adventure take by Hammer about a heroic vampire hunter and his hunchback scientist sidekick. Along the way, they pick up a barefoot gypsy girl played by the always gorgeous Catherine Munro. Several ladies, including the gypsy, are hypnotized.
49. The Puppet (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
A jaded psychiatrist sees a client who is having hallucinations. He uses hypnotism to seek answers into her dark past, but soon gets wrapped up in her delusions and starts to fall for her charms...
Director: Young-Rak Kwon | Stars: Lee Jong-su, Won Ki-Joon, Ji-sung Koo, Han So-young
Votes: 178
A psychiatrist lusts after his friend’s girlfriend. So when she comes to him for therapy, he hypnotically seduces her and programs her to come to him every Sunday at 3 pm. During a montage scene showing her robotically following the trigger, you see a brief view of her barefoot on a snowy sidewalk.
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50.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Her Master's Voice Affair
(1966)
TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A school on Long Island has a student body made up of teenaged children of scientists and other prominent people. Thrush is secretly running the facility and programming the students to ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Marianne Osborne
Votes: 94
A fun episode of the 60’s spy show. A finishing school has the daughters of diplomats, scientists and politicians. Evil T.H.R.U.S.H. has taken over the school and hypnotized the girls so to use them into spies. Their induction trigger is a music box arrangement of “Brahms’s Lullaby”. The best scenes involve the school’s physical education teacher, Miss Verity. At one point, in trance, she demurely says “I want you to tell me what you want me to do.”
I also award the episode “Best Title for a Hypno Episode Award”.
51.
Biker Mice from Mars (2006–2007)
Episode:
Manchurian Charley
(2006)
TV-Y7-FV | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Directors: Rich Arons, Tom Tataranowicz | Stars: Dorian Harewood, Rob Paulsen, Ian Ziering, Jim Ward
Perhaps my favorite animated hypnosis episode. The crew’s pretty motorcycle mechanic is hypnotized to sabotage their races. Great induction scene, several re-inductions. Great voice performance by Lisa Zane, the hypnotized lady in the “Profit” episode elsewhere on this list.
52. Deathmaster (1972)
PG | 84 min | Horror
Quarry is a mysterious, articulate stranger who draws a cult like following of local hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them, as he is a vampire.
Director: Ray Danton | Stars: Robert Quarry, Bill Ewing, Brenda Dickson, John Fiedler
Votes: 411
An uncredited 2nd sequel in the “Count Yorga” series. A vampire becomes a Charles Manson like cult leader. Several hippy gals are enthralled.
53. The Dark Tower (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom
Votes: 444
Herbert Lom (later Inspector Dreyfus in the “Pink Panther” movies) hypnotizes a beautiful circus acrobat for her act, and to covertly seduce her.
54. Chemical Wedding (2008)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A shy, stuttering professor brings Aleister Crowley back to life.
Director: Julian Doyle | Stars: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton
Votes: 1,685
A.K.A. “Crowley”. The real life would be wizard is brought back to life. One hypnosis scene, but it’s very good. The villain is searching for the heroine and hypnotizes her pretty roommate. He entertains himself by making her think she’s on a nude beach.
55. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
G | 95 min | Horror
Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene
Votes: 10,272
Exciting Hammer production about the struggle against a Crowley-like Satanist with hypnotic powers. A really good, long verbal induction of one women leading her to give up important information. Another female character spends most of the movie in his spell. Great sequence of her seeing his eyes in a car mirror commanding her to lose her friends.
56.
Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode:
A Bullet for McGarrett
(1969)
Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five-O investigates a spy ring. One of the suspects is Dr. Paul Farrar. However, unknown to Five-O, Farrar's superior is Wo Fat. Farrar plans a death trap for McGarrett.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong
Votes: 171
Great episode. Series villain Wo Fat has recruited a college psych professor. The prof. is played by Eric Braeden, who was also the evil hypnotist in “Attack Angels” on this list. He first hypnotizes a pretty coed and has her murder her boyfriend. When McGarrett and his team start getting too close, the villain hypnotizes a beautiful undercover agent and programs her to kill McGarrett. Nice, long induction scene on the beach followed by a telephonic trigger scene where you see the subject is barefoot.
57. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi
Votes: 19,574 | Gross: $4.80M
Great comedy that also works as a horror film. Bela Lugosi reprises his greatest role. As Dracula, he puts two pretty ladies under his sway.
58. Road to Rio (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 3,525 | Gross: $4.50M
A worthy entry from a great comedy team. A beautiful heiress and her treacherous aunt are on a cruise ship, along with Hope and Crosby who are stowaways. The aunt is hypnotizing the heiress to marry an accomplice. The ending shows how different the world views things. This is the only film in the series where Hope wins the gal in the end. Crosby, upset by this, looks through the keyhole of Bob and Dorothy’s Honeymoon Suite……and discovers Hope is hypnotizing her.
59. Lost in a Harem (1944)
Passed | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte
Votes: 1,289
Abbott and Costello with a female friend are in Arabia. An evil vizier lusts after the girl and uses his hypnotic rings on her.
60. Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Well meaning friends try to persuade Suzanne, a beautiful widow, to remarry and the choice seems to be between Frank, a philandering dentist, and Tony, a sensitive, failing sports trainer who helps her son.
Director: Willi Patterson | Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Anthony Edwards, Charles Dance, Linford Christie
Votes: 423
Odd little comedy. One of last mainstream films where hypnotic seduction is played for laughs, rather than something horribly non consensual. A dentist hypnotizes his friend, but a stranger accidently triggers her.
61. A Man Called Dagger (1968)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound mad scientist plots to revive the Third Reich. Secret agent Dick Dagger is assigned to stop him.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Terry Moore, Jan Murray, Sue Ane Langdon, Paul Mantee
Votes: 138
A low budget Bond want-to- be production. A Nazi supervillain has invented mind controlling dental implants, and using the ladies of a nearby spa as his test subjects. Several ladies fall under his control.
62. At the Earth's Core (1976)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant
Votes: 5,476
Explorers using a digging machine and find a subterranean world ruled by telepathic flying lizards, the Mahars. Gorgeous Catherine Munro is among the mesmerized ladies.
63. Not of This Earth (1988)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask
Votes: 2,737 | Gross: $0.11M
In my mind, the best version of this tale of live in nurse unknowingly working for an alien agent. This version has the beautiful former adult films’ star Traci Lords as the nurse. First, a busty stripper gram girl then Traci herself are hypnotized. Great long scene of Traci obeying a command to return to the villain’s home. She loses her shoes, but sadly wearing dark hose.
On the DVD commentary, a co-star memorably says: “Every man’s dream, Traci Lords in a Trance.”
64. Not of This Earth (1957)
Approved | 67 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick
Votes: 2,240
The original version. Only one female is hypnotized, but a good scene, especially for pantyhose lovers.
65. Not of This Earth (1995 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
Director: Terence H. Winkless | Stars: Michael York, Parker Stevenson, Elizabeth Barondes, Richard Belzer
Votes: 491
The third version, a couple of women put under the alien’s Hypno control.
66. Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)
178 min | Drama, Mystery
Blake Carrington has just been released from prison and is trying to regain his empire. He is also reunited with his beloved Krystle, who until recently was in a coma.
Stars: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, John James, Heather Locklear
Votes: 511
A reboot with the original cast. Linda Evans (also hypnotized in the “Hunter” episode on the list) is hypnotically programmed to kill her husband after making love to him. Though older in 1991, she is still very attractive. You see glimpses of her programming in flash backs, and there is also a scene where she is triggered on the phone to a rendezvous where she is given a pistol. Another example of fun, unexpected hypnosis scenes.
67.
Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Episode:
Hart to Hart
(1979)
TV-PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
Director: Tom Mankiewicz | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 511
In this pilot episode, Jennifer Hart undergoes a long (for fiction) induction then is conditioned to drive off a cliff. You see her husband desperately trying to wake her from his car as she attempts to carry out her programming. This episode is overshadowed by the great “Hart of Diamonds” episode of the same series.
68.
Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Episode:
Hart of Diamonds
(1982)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Jennifer has been brainwashed into stealing very expensive jewelry.
Director: Harry Winer | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Emory Bass
Votes: 121
Maybe the best female/female hypnosis episode of all time. Jennifer Hart frequents a beauty salon, unknowing that the “vitamins” she is being given are drugs rendering her and other female clients utterly susceptible to hypnosis and resulting absolute mind control.
Great inductions with a chandelier and head rubbing. A highlight is when the hypnotist orders an entranced Jennifer to the roof for a demonstration of her complete control.
69.
Gilligan's Island (1964–1992)
Episode:
Ring Around Gilligan
(1966)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Mad scientist Boris Balinkoff returns to the island with a new invention that turns the castaways into "human robots," whom he plans to use to commit the ultimate crime.
Director: George Cahan | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes: 211
A classic. Anyone interested in this list should already know this. You can’t beat Ginger saying “I’m ready, willing, and able.”
70. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong
Votes: 154,075 | Gross: $11.10M
A really fun movie with some very nice hypnosis. Another one for the white washed eyes fans.
71. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries-old living mummy.
Director: Rafael Portillo | Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 2,804
The third movie in the “Aztec Mummy” series. Evil Dr. Krupp has somehow survived his apparent death in “Curse of the Aztec Mummy”. He once again needs Flor’s psychic link to the mummy. Late one night, he telepathically re-asserts his hypnotic control over her to make her rise from bed and join him. Sadly, she stops for slippers this time.
72. The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964)
85 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it. There is Xochitl, a female mummy, and her lover Tezomoc who is also a mummy, and he can ... See full summary »
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Lorena Velázquez, Armando Silvestre, Elizabeth Campbell, María Eugenia San Martín
Votes: 395
The fourth movie in the series. A Fu Manchu like villain captures a beautiful female wrestler and uses drugs and hypnosis to brainwash her into becoming a double agent. He uses radio earrings to give her commands.
73. Silent Retreat (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat, in the woods, for rehabilitation, only to realize that the men who run it are brainwashing women, and if she breaks the rules, she'll discover what lurks beyond the trees.
Director: Tricia Lee | Stars: Chelsea Jenish, Sofia Banzhaf, Robert Nolan, Jen Pogue
Votes: 900
Nice, unexpected control plot within a horror movie. Young Women are sent to camp in the woods for rehabilitation. There, they are hypnotically brainwashed with varying degrees of success.
74. The Killer Eye (1999)
R | 72 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist's experiment goes awry, turning a dead homeless man's eyeball into a giant killing machine that has an insatiable appetite for young women.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Jacqueline Lovell, Jonathan Norman, Nanette Bianchi, Costas Koromilas
Votes: 1,304
It’s a disembodied eye, it controls minds, and it wants to mate.
75. Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Horror
When Jenna asks her four hot girlfriends to help convert an old mansion into a Halloween Haunt, they decide to party instead! Things get steamy between the girls, until they accidentally ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Erica Rhodes, Olivia Alexander, Ariana Madix, Chelsea Edmundson
Votes: 446
A much better sequel. As a movie, it’s kind of a long product placement commercial for Full Moon Studio’s movie merchandise. But for hypnosis, it’s great. All female cast, mostly in lingerie and casual wear and typically barefoot get either hypnotized or possessed.
76. The Love Machine (2016 Video)
TV-MA | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A misandrist woman secretly uses her job as a relationship counselor to plant hypnotic suggestions into women, so they will kill their husbands after enjoying their deepest sexual fantasy.
Director: Dean McKendrick | Stars: Alice Haig, Justin Berti, Michael Hopkins, Pepper XO
Votes: 154
An evil psychotherapist programs her female patients to kill the men in their lives.
77. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Votes: 41,058 | Gross: $0.23M
A beautiful, albeit slow classic by a great director. It’s on this list for a segment that may not be explicitly hypnosis, but seems to me to be clearly some kind of mind control.
SPOILER
A group of four young ladies in Victorian Era Australia explore a mysterious rock formation. Three of them fall into lethargic states, and languidly shed their shoes and stockings, all to the horror of the fourth girl, who is unaffected. They make their way deeper into the formation, then fall asleep on the ground.
Then the three barefoot ones rise in clearly trance like states, and walk into a crevice and vanish, oblivious to screams of the fourth. Later you learn only one of three barefoot ladies is found and she has no memory of the event. The policeman notes that even though she was found in rough terrain unshod, there were no scratches on her feet.
78. Sisters (1972)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley
Votes: 20,706 | Gross: $0.35M
SPOILER
A would be female journalist desperately tries to convince the authorities that she saw her neighbor (played by Margot Kidder) murder a man. This leads her to an asylum where she and her neighbor get hypnotized. The movie ends with the reporter robotically telling a detective that there was no murder, just as she was programmed to do.
During the hypnosis scene, both the reporter and Margot are barefoot in hospital gowns.
79. À l'aventure (2008)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A sexually unsatisfied young woman decided to pursue various sexual experiments and scenarios.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Carole Brana, Arnaud Binard, Nadia Chibani, Lise Bellynck
Votes: 2,329
SPOILER
As sexy as a non-porn film with hypnosis is going to ever get. A young French woman is overcome with ennui and seeks sexual fulfillment. She meets a hypnotist with paranormal interests. The movie ends with a consensual hypnosis orgy between the hypnotist and three barefoot beauties including the heroine. Very hot.
80.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Steel Assassin
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Jim and Arte must stop Torres - a dangerous man in black more metal than flesh, with superhuman strength, the power of hypnosis, and a taste for revenge - from killing President Grant.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, John Dehner, Sue Ane Langdon
Votes: 221
This series had many mind control episodes, I’m listing only the ones with predominantly female subjects. In this one, a very uptight graduate student is mesmerized by an elaborate spinning lamp to become a giddy and submissive dance hall girl.
81.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Wolf
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Jim and Arte are assigned to protect a soon to be crowned King. But first, they must stop a kidnapping plot to force him to renounce his throne.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Joseph Campanella, Lorri Scott
Votes: 177
Another great WWW episode. A Serbian princess is given a hypnotic drug by an usurper to the thrown and programmed to obey upon reading or hearing the trigger phrase “Vrkalek”. Induction scene, and she is triggered twice.
82.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Undead
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Revenge, jealousy and a rivalry between two doctors result in dastardly human experiments when James West comes upon a voodoo sacrificial killing. As West shoots his gun into the air to ... See full summary »
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Hurd Hatfield, Joan Delaney
Votes: 152
My personal favorite WWW episode. A mad scientist is hiding his work by creating a Voodoo cover story. He does this by giving the local a hypnotic zombie drug.. He wants to kill his rival, and marry the rival’s beautiful grown daughter. Great opening at an ersatz voodoo ceremony where the female target is hypnotically commanded to fire walk over burning coals. Great close up as her bare feet trod unscathed as she obeys.
83.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Tartar
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
By order of President Grant, Agents James West and Artemus Gordon must bring Russian prisoner Rimsky to Vladivostok, Siberia, in exchange for American Vice Consul, Millard Boyer. When he ... See full summary »
Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, John Astin, Malachi Throne
Votes: 172
A blink and you’ll miss it hypnosis scenes. At the very end of the episode, the boys have dates to a ball. While still on their train, Jim and Artie tell the ladies how the episode’s villain fooled them into thinking they’d been taken to Russia. The lovelies don’t believe them and Artie responds by using a a lamp to hypnotize the gals into believing they are already at the ball. The episode ends with the viewer wondering just how the boys use this situation.
84.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Illusions of Grandeur
(1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A magician is kidnapping and ransoming children. Lois and Clark try and track down the magician, but when Superman confronts the kidnapper, he is hypnotized into thinking that "Wrong is right."
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Michael Landes
Votes: 337
Terri Hatcher’s Lois Lane is probably only equaled by Dr. Who’s Sarah Jane for the title of most hypnotized woman in television history.
85.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Target: Jimmy Olsen
(1995)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jimmy Olsen becomes a deadly threat to everyone around him when a mind-controlling virus is activated in his system. Lois and Clark risk their own lives to save their young friend.
Director: David Jackson | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 285
A rarity, a “Lois and Clark” mind control episode where Lois isn’t the one hypnotized. Instead, it’s a young female friend of Jimmy.
86.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Contact
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During an apparent abduction by aliens, Lois is hypnotized to repeatedly put herself in danger, which keeps Superman distracted from a series of important thefts.
Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 337
An evil Bill Gates type magnate hypnotizes Lois in a fake alien abduction. Her wristwatch triggers her to place herself in danger so to destruct Superman.
87.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Meet John Doe
(1997)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Criminal from the future Tempus runs for president as "John Doe" and uses a subliminal device to make everyone think "John Doe is a darn nice guy." Clark has nightmares of losing Lois, made worse when she looks into making out a will.
Director: Jim Pohl | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 237
The bending of a double episode story arc where Lois has amnesia. In this first episode, she’s programmed to become an assassin triggered by the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
88.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Forget Me Not
(1996)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Clark entrusts the amnesiac Lois to a respected clinic - where one of her doctors brainwashes her to become an assassin, and her other doctor abuses his position in an effort to win Lois's love for himself.
Director: James R. Bagdonas | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 254
In the second of two episodes about Lois having an amnesia, the psychiatrist treating her falls in love and hypnotizes her to fall in love with him.
89.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Oedipus Wrecks
(1996)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
With Lois now believing herself to be in love with Dr. Maxwell Deter, Clark's attempts to tell her the truth get help from an unexpected source: Bad Brain Johnson's brother Herkimer, whose latest invention makes people prone to suggestion.
Director: Kenn Fuller | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 260
Lois and others brainwashed by subliminal suggestions.
90. Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
Unrated | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields, John Dierkes
Votes: 660
The pretty daughter of the famous Doctor is blamed for a series of savage deaths. In reality, they are being committed by the village doctor who hypnotizes her to cover up that he is a murderous werewolf. Two nice induction scenes, then her rising from bed in a trance to obey, if you look closely, you’ll see she’s barefoot.
91. How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
Two girls on the lam hide out in a college fraternity.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Votes: 276
Great Hypno comedy, but also a great “What if” moment. Two exotic dancers witness a mob murder and are on the run. They end up on a college campus. One spies a hypnosis experiment, and goes deep. She’s programmed to stay in an obedient trance for 24 hours. A highlight is when she is commanded to be nice to the Dean. She interprets this in a way to be expected for someone in her line of work. Wonderful sequence of her entranced on the lap of an increasingly flustered Dean, saying “I want to be very, very nice to you.
The “What If”: The role of the hypnotized “Curly Flag” was originally casted to be played by Marilyn Monroe. Sheree North does great, she also is a hypnotized sleeper in “Telefon”. But can you imagine Marilyn in a trance for 90% of a movie. See “Our Man Flynn” for the other great Hypno “What If”.
92. Les vampires (1915)
Not Rated | 421 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé
Votes: 5,433
A very early French serial about a gang of criminals including the beautiful, cat-suited Irma Vep. They are evil, but even worse is the supervillain Moreno. In the installment “Hypnotic Eyes”, Moreno first hypnotizes an innocent maid, to impersonate Irma. Later he abducts and enthralls Irma, successfully commanding her to kill her leader.
Many hypnotic tropes for later films were established in this.
It’s also the basis for two projects, a movie and now a miniseries, about a crazy French directors attempt to film a modern version. Both projects include loving recreations of the 1915 serial.
93. Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare (2019 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Wanted for multiple crimes, Dr. Albert Beck assumes the identity of another doctor en route to a new job at a sleep clinic. He falls for his first patient: Shelli, who suffers from nocturnal sleep sex.
Director: Jeff Hare | Stars: Eric Roberts, Emilie Ullerup, Angeline Appel, Felissa Rose
Votes: 463
The Lifetime Network has had a surprising amount of hypnosis content. This is a sequel to two series, one about an evil M.D. the other about a woman with sexsomnia…..she is sexually active in her sleep. For us the main attraction is her niece who also a sleepwalker, but who is also very suggestible. The evil doctor (played by a campy Eric Roberts) learns the niece’s secret and begins mind controlling her. Includes a nice, hypnotically commanded kiss.
94. My Husband's Deadly Past (2020 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 85 min | Thriller
A woman haunted by visions that suggest she killed a missing co-ed discovers that her psychiatrist husband has manipulated her memory to hide his own role in the murder.
Director: Troy Scott | Stars: Sarah Butler, Peter Benson, Maddy Hillis, Brendon Zub
Votes: 286
Another Lifetime hypnosis themed movie. Somewhat of an “ick” movie for me in that the longest Hypno scenes involve the villain controlling his daughter.
95.
The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956)
Episode:
The Prisoner of Dr. Fu Manchu
(1956)
30 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Dr. Fu Manchu has poisoned the renowned Dr. Hu Yan, who is to appear at a conference of the nations of the world, and replaced him with an impostor who will disrupt the conference's goal--a plan for world peace.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Glen Gordon, Lester Matthews, Clark Howat, Carla Balenda
Votes: 39
A 50’s tv show. In this episode, a pretty nurse is hypnotized by Fu to return to work and poison a diplomat. Remarkably, when she is wheeled in on a gurney for Fu Manchu to hypnotize her, she appears to be naked under a sheet.
96. Ramekin (2018)
70 min | Comedy, Horror
A college girl is terrorized by a ramekin.
Director: Cody Clarke | Stars: Ellie Aaron, Cody Clarke, Ada Hall, Anthony Kapfer
Votes: 297
A weird…fun movie that looks like a college film project. A coed moves into her aunt’s apartment and finds a diabolical……ramekin (small ceramic cup used for baking). Not only is it sentient, it has the ability to dominate the young woman. The control is subtle at first but eventually is a full hypnotic enslavement. Some barefoot shots.
97. The Body Shop (1972)
X | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Emminent plastic surgeon and mad scientist Don Brandon loses his wife Anitra - pinup model and social butterfly - in a tragic accident. He and his faithful humpbacked and drooling assistant... See full summary »
Director: J.G. Patterson Jr. | Stars: J.G. Patterson Jr., Jenny Driggers, Roy Mehaffey, Linda Faile
Votes: 508
An unpleasant horror flick from the ‘70’s with a modern day Dr. Frankenstein working to create the perfect woman from parts of numerous ladies. The interest for us is that he uses a very stereotypical Hypno gaze to enthrall the ladies to go to his lab. Once he creates his dream girl, a ravishing blond, he uses his Hypno powers to keep her in line.
98.
Heist (2021)
Episode:
Sex Magick Money Murder: Part 1
(2021)
TV-MA | 41 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Heather Tallchief gives in to hypnosis and aids career criminal Roberto Solis in a plot to steal $3.1 million from an armored truck in Las Vegas.
Director: Derek Doneen | Stars: Jimmy Dahroug, Patricio Doren, Emree Franklin, William Guirola
Votes: 216
A made for Netflix series about various real world heists. In this 2 parter, a beautiful young lady falls for an ex-con who dabbles in sex magic. According to her, he would hypnotize her…not so much to brainwash her but to strengthen her commitment to him and his plot to stage a Vegas robbery. The nice part for us is one of these sessions is recreated for the show, with the actress playing the woman barefoot and watching the hypnotic vhs tape, complete with spirals. Kind of blink and you’ll miss it, but worth a look.
99.
Evil Deeds (2021– )
Episode:
The Spiral
(2021)
Horror, Thriller
A brilliant man named Ethan, while working for the government on alien technology they discovered, uses the strange Spiral signal on himself, which opens up his dark side. The signal causes... See full summary »
Directors: Matt Spease, Rick Vyper | Stars: Lucian Xanthos, Lynn Hunter, Taylor Dawn Williford, Roman Fischer
Dark Night Films made-for-streaming anthology. One of the main producers is a proud Hypno Fan. In this episode, a male scientist discovers an alien spiral video. He then uses it on several women.
100.
Evil Deeds (2021– )
Episode:
Rasputin's Ghost
(2021)
29 min | Horror, Thriller
When a man named Lee Christopher is on a business trip to Russia, he stumbles onto Rasputin's body in the frozen river and is possessed by the spirit of the mad monk. When he returns back ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Spease | Stars: Lucian Xanthos, Adrienne Collins, Justin Byrd, Jeannie Stacks
Another episode in the Dark Night Films anthology series. Rasputin’s spirit possesses a man. He then hypnotizes three women to carrying out crimes for him. Basically a homage to to Hammer’s “Rasputin”.
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