Hypnotic Appreciation Society: Hypnotism Noir

Unknown Korean Hypnotist, Part Two

2007-08-06T15:36:00.000-07:00

Not so long ago we promised to post more examples of the intriguing work of a certain Unknown Korean Hypnotist. We have been supplied with this material with almost no information at all, so this is all you have. In this case, 25 minutes of inductions in these case of lots of ladies in white. Enjoy.

Fredrik Praesto hypnotizes Caroline Gynning

2007-08-06T15:01:00.000-07:00

Unless you are an expert in swedish media or in second grade supermodels, the headline of this entry will say absolutely nothing to you. Do not fear; here at the Hypnotic Appreciation Society we spend hours researching these obscure topics so you don't have to. That is, whenever they are related in some tangencial way to beautiful ladies in a deep hypnotic sleep. As is, luckily for all, the case.

Fredrik Paestro is one of the premier stage hypnotists and tv hypnotherapists in Sweden, as you can very clearly see if you browse through his swanky website. One of the several TV shows where he has made use of his abilities is Breakfast show Förkväll, where he crossed paths with stunning, busty blonde Carolina Gynning. Carolina is your average TV Personality / Model / Big Brother contestant. However, if you are really eager to know more about her, you will be interested to hear that she once tried to sell her breast implants on Ebay.

There is not much more to say beyond the obvious: you can see the video on crappy streaming here.

Some additional news about the work of Mr. Paestro: there are more videos of celebrities under hypnosis on his website, but we cannot make them work. Anyone is willing to have a look to see if they are more lucky?

Googlemining for hypnosis (1)

2007-06-14T02:44:00.000-07:00

Karen Black, Hypnotist in "Haunting Fear"

2007-06-01T04:01:00.000-07:00

Actress Karen Black is a hypnotist helping a woman who suffers terrible nightmares to get a night of sound and restful sleep. The scene is taken from the late 80s film "Haunting Fear; it's rather short and for some readers it will be a bit dissapointing, but it has some nice details, like the conversation between the hypnotist and the subject about what is going to happen during the induction, the way the woman lies on a couch with the hypnotist over her, and the soft, gentle touches of the therapist on her hand.

The clip was found and taken from Hypno-Media's channel at Stage6. It has been reuploaded for convenience, since Stage6 requires a plugin not everyone will want to install to watch it. Thanks!

Comedian Armelie (and a bunch of ladies) fall under the spell of Daniel Huguet

2007-05-29T07:05:00.001-07:00

Spanish hypnotists seem to get the best subjects, but no one does inductions like the French. There is someting about hypnotists in France that sets them apart from the rest: their attention for detail, their taste for keeping their craft as something mysterious and mystifying, instead of just plain and dumb; their strong personalities and trust in themselves, best expressed in the classic saying usually related to hypnotism in France: dormez, je le veux! ("sleep, I want you to"). Everything is as if hypnotists in France had never heard about hypnotherapy and were still living in 1962, in the days of great masters like Dominique Webb and Michel de la Vega.

Daniel Huguet is definitely one of these. He puts a lot of effort in making his induction process something entertaining and worth seeing, as we had reported on a previous ocassion when he filled the whole floor of a TV studio with the bodies of hypnotized audience members in the show "La soirée de L'étrange" (the night of mistery). Recently he was back in the show, to make a new demonstation of his abilities.

In the two videos you are about to see, Daniel works first with a small selected group of four volunteers, including two very nice young ladies, and later he moves forward to put under trance a big group of audience members. It is in the first video, however, when his plans apparently change unexpectedly: during the induction one of the guest celebrities in the show starts falling under the effect of his suggestions. She is comedienne and actress Armelie, on of the guests of the show "Camera Café". He wakes her up and invites her to join the rest of volunteers for his second appearance in the show. I will not tell much about it, but let just say that Armelie redefines the meaning of "going out like a light". Daniel doesn't really do much more with her and the rest of subjects, but with inductions like these you don't really need to prove anything...

To see Monsieur Huguet's appearance on the first video, go to 08:30.

Tony Kamo TV Alert: Spanish Readers in Valencia area needed (Updated)

2007-05-28T09:11:00.001-07:00

Updated Now with small not too interesting video at the end of the post.

Spanish Hypnotist Tony Kamo, a legend in the international hypnofetish scene, is the star of a brand new TV show called "Sessió Hipnotica" (Hypnotic Session). The show started three weeks ago and can only be seen in the Valencia area of Spain, every monday, and it .

Details are quite sketchy but they coulnd't sound better: Each program is seventy minutes long, and in every episode, Tony hypnotizes audience volunteers for therapeutic and stage hypnosis demonstrations, bystanders on the streets, and -how not-, celebrities. Funnily enough, all female guests entranced in the first four weeks had already appeared under hypnosis in previous TV shows (Maria Abradello, Carmen Janeiro, Concha Velasco and Yvonne Reyes). If the show is not cancelled -and it very well could be-, it promises to be as noteworthy as "Hola Raffaela" was in the 90s, the programme that launched Kamo to fame and started the trend of hypnotized celebrities TV shows in Spain.

Unfortunately there's almost nothing of "Sessió Hipnotica" online. There's a one-page website, a small WMV video that ~~cannot be downloaded properly on our computers~~ you can watch at the end of this post thanks to the help of several readers, and several Youtube fragments uploaded by one of the volunteers participating (no inductions or female subjects appearing). If you are in Spain and are able to receive Canal 9, the TV station showing Tony Kamo's show every monday, please get in contact with us; thousands of people all over the world would be very, very happy if we could find a way to put the show online.

Beautiful Inductions: Unknown Korean Hypnotist, Part One

2007-05-28T05:27:00.000-07:00

We know almost nothing about the work of the hypnotist you are about to see. Judging from the material we have been sent, it is obvious that he is one of the most famous hypnotherapists and stage hypnotists in South Korea, appearing regularly on TV to demonstrate his therapeutic skills and to put celebrities under trance. He is almost for sure one of the two "unkown korean hypnotists" that Deeperasleep lists on his site, but we have no more information available.

We have been supplied a huge amount of television appearances showing the work of this korean master of hypnosis, and we will be releasing them in the coming weeks. Today's video is a 13-minute piece where he puts several volunteer subjects under, and, most interestingly, places the very cute female show host in a trance to make a demonstration of strength under hypnosis. More Korean TV hypnosis coming very soon...

The hypnotic arts of Dmitry Dombrovsky

2007-05-27T17:26:00.000-07:00

There is a theory we have had at the Hypnotic Society HQ for quite a long time; let us know what you think. There must be a great hypnosis scene in Russia, but we are just not hearing about it. There are few better historical precedents to have than Rasputin, and it makes sense somehow in cultural terms; hypnosis just fits too well with slavic XIX-XX century aesthetics, and the women are just too beautiful. The language, however, is a very strong barrier to cross and search results are always scarce. But the little we have seen, we like it very much. Here's an example.

Dmitry Dombrovsky is one of the few Russian hypnotist with a strong online pressence, although his website is quite a frustrating experience. He must be one of the premier stage hypnotists in the country, judging from the following video snippets that seem to come from his own TV special. We would love to see the whole thing, but we have only about 12 minutes to scan.

Dombrovsky seems to have a talent to handle physically his subjects, specially the ladies. He gently makes them move from one place of the stage to the other, pulling them softly and commanding their bodies. You will enjoy his skills if you like gentle touches on the foreheads of entranced girls.

There are very nice things in these three files: two very attractive subjects getting body parts frozen, needles stuck, and watches stolen, while many more remain asleep in the backgound at all times. He creates an interesting atmosphere, mystical and a bit distant from comedy, something we particularly appreciate.

If you happen to be in Russia or read Russian and would like to contribute with links or videos to the Hypnotic Society Archives, please drop us a line.

Treasures from the Female Hypnotist Archives: "The Champions" and "Arsene Lupin"

2007-05-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

Although the Hypnotic Society has laid dormant for many months and has just restarted its activities, the archives have kept growing and growing during the last year. We are happy to recover some of its most precious items for the enjoyment of those who may have missed them in the first place.

Seductive female hypnotists is something we enjoy almost as much as beautiful ladies in trance, but alas, they are just so hard to find, at least caught on tape. These two gems from a 60s TV show and a recent motion picture represent the most clear outline of how to endow a beautiful lady with hypnotic skills; this is as good as it gets.

"The Champions" goes for a powerful stare, while "Arsene Lupin" chooses the classic swinging watch; in both examples the voice of the hypnotist is as soft and silky as authoritative. Interrogation and manipulation are the goals of the trance, and the actresses do an amazing job. Watch out for the surpise in the middle of the induction in the second clip.

Both films arrived to us months ago Via Inraptured, the best resource in the world for glamurous female hypnotists.

Beautiful Inductions | Hypnotist Samadhi in German TV show

2007-05-27T14:29:00.000-07:00

A young beautiful subject on high heels and a revealing top faces the moment of falling in a hypnotic sleep, anticipating the second with expectaction and some fear; the hypnotist faces her and with confidence, places his hand oh her forehead. She closes her eyes and falls backwards, completely limp. The trance is completed.

The scene is a fragment of a German TV show called Absolut Schlegel; the master hypnotist is Samadhi. We don't really know what else is going on, but it doesn't really matters: it's definitely a beautiful induction.

Vintage Hypnotism | J Louis in "Un dos tres", early 90s

2007-05-27T12:49:00.000-07:00

Probably 1992 does not fall within the time frame of what we would normally call Vintage Hypnotism in the Society; but although this snippet of a classic Spanish TV show is not even in black and white, it does have most of the small details that we love and identify with old style stage hypnosis. The rhythm, the patterns, the dramatic and authoritative reinforcement of sleep-related suggestions, and the corny numbers, like in this case, the "you are seeing all people naked" glasses stunt. Besides, we didn't know where else to put it.

It's short and it's not very graphic, but it was worthy of entering the archives for one reason: look at the heavy heads, deep breathing and half-open mouths of those ladies from 1992. Gorgeous. It's a shame there is so little of the craftmanship of J. Louis on the Web, who has a really vintage website.

Celebrities in Trance: Raquel Revuelta

2007-05-27T12:07:00.000-07:00

Oh Spain, land of siesta and paradise of media hypnosis junkies. All those raised on Tony Kamo and Giucas Casella inductions on beautiful celebrities know that Spain has historically had a tendency to place its singers, models and TV hosts in deep trances in front of million of viewers. Although the golden age of TV hypnosis that were the 90s is long gone, there are still plenty of gems to uncover, like this recent one.

Raquel Revuelta, ex-miss spain, ex-model and local fashion mogul, visited last year a magic TV show where she crossed paths with mentalist Jose Carlos. Being the celebrity on the show, she had no option but be one of the chosen subjects for his brief hypnosis sessions. The first one of the videos that we present here includes the whole session, while the second one shows a snippet from the off-camera, pre show induction. Raquel is a very attractive woman and makes a glamurous subject, although she does seem to be in a rather light trance; she is only made to hold a ball of foil paper and feel it getting hotter and hotter . Watch out for two other female subjects selected from the audience that are also quite beautiful and seem to be really deep.

Tips to the Carlos Baute -melodic singer also appearing on the TV show- fan club for uploading this, even if they had to place an annoying line of text in the middle of the screen.

Enjoy.

One, Two, Three: Awake Now

2007-05-27T11:45:00.001-07:00

The Hypnotic Appreciation Society has been placed in a deep hypnotic slumber for the last months, but it's time to open those heavy eyelids and wake up. Since nothing particularly interesting has been going on in the hypnofetish scene since we last reported -except the unstoppable rise of online video and the copyright backslash of the media giants that killed precious gems like Mesmeric's Youtube channel (how do we miss you, Mesmeric), we pretty much can resume our mission where we left. So glamour, the inherent beauty of the hypnotic trance, vintage trance aesthetics and the true hypnosis femme fatales are our main objects of research and fascination. And our research has revealed many interesting items that will be incorporated to our collection as of now.

Check back regularly, since this time we are opening our
files to the public and staying pretty much awake.

Beautiful Inductions | Celebrities in Trance: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson / Susana Gonzalez

2006-04-17T10:13:00.000-07:00

A couple of nice snipets found recently on the Web that you may know, worth revisiting nonetheless. The first one concerns British Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, party girl and reality TV contestant; sort of England's answer to Paris Hilton. In preparation for one of these programs, Tara was hypnotized by the most famous of English hypnotists, Paul McKenna, whose list of celebrity clients reads like a hypnofetishist dream. Tara was filmed being put under to overcome her phobia to snakes, and some nice soul has recently uploaded the video of the sequence to Google Video. It's a brief little thing, but we find it rather enjoyable, specially the image of Paul holding Tara's loose wrist as the muscles in her face go all limp. It looks like this:

Susana Gonzalez is a latin actress who was once hypnotized on TV by Mexican Hypnotist Niko, whose bigger claim to fame has been recently hypnotizing several players from the Mexican Soccer Team in preparation for the next World Cup. Here in the Society we have always admired Niko for his excellent taste in choosing classy hypnosis subjects..

The video of Susana hypnotized and made stiff as a board has been available for a long time as part of Hypnovideo's absolutely essential Ladies of Spain compilations (if you like this blog and don't have any of these DVDs you are missing a lot of good things; go and get them). However, it was not available in full, as the beginning of the sequence was missing. Now Niko has uploaded the full video to his site, including a rather nice fast induction that shows that Susana is a pretty good subject. The format of the file is horrible Flash that we cannot grab and upload somewhere else, but it's definitely worthy of your time. Go and have a look.

Remember that we are always looking here for new or old fascinating files about glamour, beauty and hypnosis. If you come across something interesting in your travels through the web, or you want to contribute with some rare item from your personal collection please let us know.

Enchanting Hypnotists | Hypnosis in Media: "Oldboy" hypnosis scenes

2006-04-13T05:39:00.000-07:00

The award-winning Korean movie "Oldboy", from 2003, is one of the most intense and powerful film experiences of the last ten years. If you have seen it, you know it; if you haven't, you should basically quit reading this site and buy it, rent it or download it right now; you won't be sorry.

In this tender and tragic tale of revenge, there is a female hypnotist that plays a crucial part. This is all I can say without spoiling it for those who have not seen it, and I won't do that. However, I believe I can show you every scene that she appears in without ruining the movie for anyone; it's not more than 3 minutes long, and it's in Korean. Our copy of the film doesn't have English subtitles, but if you have seen the movie you don't need them; if not, you can see the video safely and have another reason to watch "Oldboy".

As I said, the Hypnotist appears in the movie only in 3 short scenes, where she puts under the male and female protagonists; little more than 3 minutes of time on screen. This is why I find so incredible how with barely any material Seung-Shin Lee, the actress portraying her, creates one of the most memorable evil female hypnotists in the recent history of cinema; we are talking "Woman in Green" levels of greatness here, ladies and gentlemen. Eveything about her is just perfect: the first thing we get to see from her, her way of walking, soft and elegant; her silken voice; how her facial expression is calm but at the same time authoritative; the cunningness and power she exhales, seducing people into hypnotic sleep without their knowledge; and her hypnotic tool, a bell hanging from a swinging metal chain. This is one of the better examples I can find of everything we love in the Hypnotic Appreciation Society. There is apparently a (completely unnecesary) Hollywood Remake of "Oldboy" in production. What we really want to see is a spinoff movie about Yoo Hyung-ja, the fascinating hypnotist in this great film.

Beautiful Inductions: Derren Brown on "The Gathering"

2006-04-12T16:17:00.000-07:00

British Mentalist Derren Brown is the hypnotist who is not really hypnotizing you; he's only talking to you on a level that you can understand. Like The Amazing Kreskin before him, Brown -who is one of the most amazing performers working right now in the world of magic- uses suggestion and NLP but very rarely does a proper, formal hypnotic induction were he puts his subject to sleep. However, his TV special "The Gathering" includes a few of these rare ocassions. The ten minute video you are about to see includes two brief sections were an English male celebrity and a female member of the audience are put under quick and fast with just a click of his fingers. After this, all the audience is invited to participate in a collective suggestion experiment where they are told to forget the entire evening.

Although Charlie, the female subject, is quite lovely and seems a nice girl, the induction is unfortunately so fast and brief and the trance so shallow that it hardly enters our Beautiful Inductions chapter. However, what is interesting here is the mood. Derren Brown knows how to create an atmosphere and the lights on stage, the scenery... everything contributes to create a setting of mystery and fascination which is lacking sadly in most modern hypnosis stage shows. A tip for the average stage hypnotist doing the circuit: taking care of the dramatic and scenic aspects of your show is hardly going to hurt you guys, and it makes it more inspiring than just watching the standard row of chairs. "The Gathering" was also exquisitely shot and photographed, which also helps to enjoy it more.

Enchanting Hypnotists: Noora Karma

2006-04-09T16:31:00.000-07:00

Noora Karma is a magician, mentalist and hypnotist from Finland. She lives in England and works along with Spanish Magician Alfonso Rios: as a team, they are called Opposite Attraction. Opposite Attraction are like one of those superhero teams in comics; they have an impressive set of abilities very conveniently split. Thus, while Alfonso does escapism, card tricks, reads minds, and dances, Nora is able of guessing which song are you thinking of and then play it on the piano; and, more important, can put people in a hypnotic sleep. In a nice twist to the traditional magician-assistant relationship, Nora is the one who entrances volunteers before Alfonso levitates them. It makes sense; I would consider very seriously volunteering for their act if this gorgeous lady is going to put me to sleep first...

You can see some images of their act on their site, and a video that shows two short scenes where Nora lays a gentleman flat on the floor, and makes a deeply entranced woman rigid while she's being balanced on a chair.

Via Inraptured forums.

Hypnosis in Media | Enchanting Hypnotists: "The Man Inside" trailer

2006-04-09T16:19:00.000-07:00

We haven't found much information about this video you are about to see. It seems to be a trailer for an independent movie still in production. The plot deals with an amnesiac man and his beautiful, mysterious psychiatrist.The trailer show different images from a hypnotic session, including the induction and the awakening. And we will only say 3 words: dangling key induction.

We definitely want to know more. It certainly looks promising.

This is also our first entry about female hypnotists, something you can definitely expect a lot more of. The Hypnotic Appreciation Society is not a female dominant hypnosis site in any way; there are plenty of those. This site deals with hypnosis and glamour, and it's hard to decide what is more glamourous: a beautiful hypnotic subject, or a beautiful hypnotist..

Hypnosis in Media: "Hypnosis Theme" music video, by Wax Taylor

2006-04-09T16:08:00.000-07:00

The music video for the downtempo track "Hypnosis Theme", by Wax Taylor, makes pretty explicit the inherent eroticism in hypnotic inductions. The video uses very effectively CG to create some tracks that would be pretty hard to shot on film, like the face of the beautiful subject reflected on the dangling pendant. The track starts with a standard induction and the voice of the young woman losing track as she counts backwards from 10 to 1. And ends with lots of synthetic naked women. Have a look at it.

Beautiful Inductions | Daniel Huguet, French Hypnotist on TV

2006-04-02T16:58:00.000-07:00

This is a long induction (22 minutes) on a program in French TV. We found it on a peer to peer network and we don't have much information about it. Most of the subjects appearing are male, but you fill find a couple of beautiful ladies falling under the spell of the hypnotist in a beautiful way. Some nice details here and there to enjoy...

Updated: The hypnotist is Daniel Huguet, the TV Show is La Nit del Mystere.

Beautiful Inductions: Unknown Russian Hypnotist and Subject

2006-03-05T09:06:00.000-08:00

You will find all kind of strange things on the Internet If you know how to say "hypnosis" in Russian; this is one of them. Digging deep on Google I found this image of the moment just before this beautiful lady enters a deep hypnotic sleep. And there is something in the way her attention is caught on the hand of the hypnotist, on the intensity of her gaze and her vulnerability, that we find here at the Hypnotic Society extremely beautiful.

And we won't make jokes on the Svengali hypnotist just to preserve the magic...

Celebrities in Trance: Charlotte Hatherley, Ash

2006-02-19T14:11:00.000-08:00

Charlotte Hatherley was until very recently the lead guitarrist of British Rock Band Ash. In 2003, Ash taped a special documentary for England's Channel Four called "Ash:Love and Destruction" where the band members where subjected to several esoteric tests and trials. In one of them, Charlotte was hypnotised and regressed to a past live. According to an article on BBC's site, the full story goes:

Charlotte from Ash hypnotised
Charlotte from Ash has been telling us how bizarre it was being hypnotised for the band's spooky new documentary.

It's definitely not your usual band TV doc - the Irish band are kidnapped by a group of obsessed fans and taken to a secure location, where they have to confront their innermost secrets and desires in a journey into their dark side.

You get to find out quite a bit about each member, plus you'll see Mark exorcising demons, Rick getting crucified by dominatrixes and Tim spending time in a flotation tank.

Charlotte gets hypnotised and goes back to a past life of someone born in 1902, at home with her husband and son.

She says it was very weird seeing a film of herself being hypnotised:

"Yeah I didn't like it actually… it was kinda strange seeing yourself completely hypnotised. Anything could have happened. Being laid bare to an audience full of strangers, talking about quite personal things…"

A research through several Ash fansites hasn't produced much information about the documentary; but in one of them we've found this not-terribly -interesting screenshot os Charlotte's hypnotic session.

If you have any more information about "Ash:Love and Destruction", lovely Miss Hatherley's hypnosis experience, or even a copy of the thing, we'd love to have a look at it. Just tell us.

Vintage Hypnotism | Celebrities in Trance: HIldegarde Kneff

2006-02-19T11:56:00.000-08:00

Hypnosis with style rule #1:There can no be more glamourous and sensual hypnotic subjects than golden age Hollywood Stars.
Hildegarde Kneff was a german actress that had a long career in the film industry, both in Germany and in the USA. She starred in "Svengali", one of several film adaptations of George de Maurer's classic novel about hypnotism "Trilby". In this video, taken once again from the Pathe Archives (sorry for annoying copyright notice on screen), Hildergarde is hypnotized by a psychologist that is helping her research for a role, presumably "Svengali"'s. The induction and film itself are good, not great; but the piece of film is a rarity. There's evidence of plenty of classic hollywood stars that were hypnotized in some ocassion, but very rarely on screen.

Beautiful Inductions | Vintage Hypnotism: Hypnotist in French Magic Festival in the 1960's

2006-02-19T06:09:00.000-08:00

The Following video has no sound, and there is an annoying text in the middle of the screen all the time. However, it's worth every single second of it. It depicts a Hypnotist walking down the street and approaching a group of strangers that are sitting on an outdoor café. It's Paris; it's 1969. Without a single word, the hypnotist starts putting to sleep the surprised beautiful young ladies. Many of them seem to resist, of course unsuccesfully; see how their eyelids flutter and how hard they fight to keep them open. In the end, their bodies collapse in the chair, their arms hang loose. Beautiful.

I love this stuff that comes from a more innocent time where all clichés about hypnosis originated; when hypnosis was mysterious, and hypnotists seemed all powerful. The video comes from the British Pathe Online Archive, and it's identified only as a "magician meeting in Paris".

Enjoy.

Welcome to The Hypnotic Society

2006-02-18T11:39:00.000-08:00

This is going to be fun.