REVIEWED
..::Dissociative December - A Cold Month Of Mind Control::..
“Thats alright George, because your with the keeper. And the keeper will keep you alive.” - The Keeper (Christopher Lee)
Canadian slice of mystery from 1976, Christopher Lee plays The Keeper who is the head psychiatrist and owner of Underwood Asylum, a place the wealthy leave their mentally unstable relatives. Turns out the Keeper who uses an highly experimental form of hypnosis to cure & control his patients, is possibly bumping off patients and their family members in order to swindle their fortunes. A private investigator named Dick Driver is hired by one of the inmates brothers to find evidence to shut down Underwood. But is Driver merely a pawn in a greater game.
One of Christopher Lee's most obscure movies. And its an obscurity for a damn good reason, it was absolutely terrible. Its such a trite movie I can barely bring myself to type anything about it. Was very reminiscent of the stories you found in the crumbly 70s mystery show 'Tales of the Unexpected', only much longer and much less cohesive. I'd have got away with it, if not for those pesky kids - a very young Ian Tracey turns up frequently as an homeless orphan shoeshine boy (oddly it was the second time this week I've caught him playing an orphan).
[Personal Reasons For OBEYING]
The Keeper does lots of hypnotism throughout the film, including submitting his patients to mental torture. These including using his subjects fears against them like playing hypnotic images & sounds of dogs barking.
[x] Just small cogs in a bigger machine - “Most the world works for men they never see.”
[x] Look Around the Eyes not in the Eyes - The Keeper uses various hypnotic techniques to control people during the film. Including his watch, a creepy cane with an eye set in the handle and his hallucinogenic spiral swirling machine with flashing lights & beeps.
[x] Mirror Mind Control - lots of mirrors to give the illusion of those in dissociative hypnotized states.
[x] Psygnosis© Lemmings - Hypnotic induced suicides or accidents including walking off roofs & jumping through windows.
[_] No hats on beds, but it was damned close closes we got was guns on beds.
Originally taken from Letterboxd
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