
Great news for or die-hard horror fans over at the Warner Brothers Archive Collection -- a ton of classic fright films are now available made-to-order and completely remastered. The Hypnotic Eye (1959) is a sleaze classic about a series of bizarre acts of self-mutilation: a woman washers her hair over the stove, another drinks lye, another sticks her face in a fan. A detective investigates a famed hypnotist, The Great Desmond (Jacques Bergerac), to determine his involvement in the incidents. Allison Hayes (Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman) plays his assistant and the film even includes a scene where Desmond hypnotizes the audience. It's a scream. Also out is Macabre (1958), director William Castle's (The Tingler) early gimmick film. (Its tag line was "We insure you for $1,000 against death by fright!") It's actually a mystery about a little girl who has possibly been buried alive. The Cyclops (1957) is directed by Bert I. Gordon (Attack Of Puppet People) and stars Gloria Talbott searching in Mexico for her missing husband. Instead of finding him, she runs into a 25-foot-tall monster with one eye that looks like the same creature in War Of The Colossal Beast (and actually was played by the same actor). These releases all arrived today and look fabulous. I was so insane over them I almost short-circuited!