Genre: Comedy
Rating: NR
Synopsis:
Henry (Forman
Shane) is a timid guy with an overbearing and abusive wife named Martha
(Barbara Kline). Seeking help for his impotence, Henry is told by his therapist
that the only way to overcome the mental block instilled in him by his
puritanical mother is to make love to as many women as possible. Unfortunately,
Henry is too shy and inhibited. Then suddenly, Henry remembers an old book
he found containing a formula for invisibility. Henry makes some of the
invisibility potion and disappears when he sneezes. Switching back and
forth between visible and invisible with just a sneeze, Henry sneaks into
the home of his sexy new neighbor Sandy, first watching her shower, then
making love to her in the dark while pretending to be her boyfriend Jack.
The next night, Henry sneaks into the home of Martha's best friend Dorothy,
watching her exercise and bathe before eventually making love to her by
pretending to be Jack. Buoyed by his new conquests, Henry's confidence
begins to grow but Martha is suspicious of Henry's change in attitude.
The following night, Martha throws a party to welcome Sandy to the neighborhood
but Jack decides to have some fun. He buys some white mice and feeds them
the formula, turning them invisible, then sneaks into the party and drops
the mice down the women's dresses, causing them to rip off their clothes
and run into the streets. Traumatized by being arrested for public indecency,
Martha goes to visit the therapist. The therapist convinces Martha to let
him hypnotize her, then makes love to her, telling her that she won't remember
making love to him as the doctor but will only remember making love to
him as Jack. He also tells her that, whenever she hears the name Jack,
she will take off her clothes and make love to him. Still bothered by Henry's
change in attitude, Martha sneaks into his workshop and finds the book
on invisibility. Putting that together with Sandy and Dorothy's tales of
their boyfriend's increased sexual prowess, Martha realizes what Henry
is up to and warns her friends to turn the light on the next time Jack
comes to visit. Sure enough, both Sandy and Dorothy catch their invisible
lover red-handed forcing him to flee. Later, back at home, Henry says the
word 'jack' and Martha throws herself at him. However, when Henry accuses
her of being another of Jack's lovers, she reveals that she was only pretending
and accuses him of being the one who's cheating. Martha, Sandy and Dorothy
begin berating Henry but, when he explains that it was all Jack's idea,
Sandy and Dorothy begin to take their clothes off. Realizing that Henry
is right and Jack is the real villain, Martha wakes her friends from their
trance and sends them home. Forgiving Henry but making him promise to give
up his nocturnal experiments.
Type of mind control: Hypnosis
Mind control scenes:
The main mind
control scene in this movie is when Jack the therapist hypnotizes Martha
to make love to her. Martha also throws herself at Henry when he uses the
word 'jack' near the end of the movie. Martha later says that she was only
pretending to be hypnotized but whether she was or not isn't clear. Sandy
and Dorothy are also supposed to be making love to Henry when he visits
them in their homes and calls himself Jack because they're hypnotized to
do so but they don't actually appear to be hypnotized. However, when Henry
uses the name Jack while explaining why he did what he did, both Sandy
and Dorothy definitely fall into a trance and remove their clothes.
Subjective Rating:
3 out of 5
This movie
was written more to focus on Henry's adventures while he is invisible than
to focus on the hypnosis aspect of the story. In fact, the women being
hypnotized by Jack to make love to him whenever they hear his name seems
like a plot that was thrown in at the last minute and doesn't always make
sense. How Henry knows to call himself Jack when he sneaks into the women's
houses isn't explained. Perhaps Jack told him to but we don't see him do
it. And the fact that the women don't appear to be hypnotized when Henry
calls himself Jack in their homes but they fall into a trance when he uses
the name at the end of the movie is further evidence that they weren't
originally supposed to be hypnotized. Still, Jacks hypnosis session with
Martha and the scene with Sandy and Dorothy removing their clothes when
they hear Jack's name were enjoyable and would definitely appeal to most
mind control fans.