For a horror movie made in 1959, I thought this one held up rather well. I wouldn't mind seeing someone attempt a remake ... maybe without the quack talking about hypnotism at the beginning though. Hypnotism didn't really seem like a big factor in the plot. Also, the cover is a little misleading - I don't recall seeing anything about a noose or a rope.

This is chockful of justly infamous money shots: the steel-pronged binocs that claim the film's first fatality, a grisly guillotine sequence, and an ice-tongs slaying, among others. (Also liked the purple-tinted transition scenes and the generally lurid color schemes.) While it falls a tad short of matching then-contempo scare classic _Peeping Tom_, this shares many of the same modern, media-themed touches.

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