Mental Minor

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  Death Warmed Up (1985)

How odd, how odd. A ten year old boy is hypnotized by a doctor to kill his own parents. Now you might have known that under hypnosis you cannot be made to do something you wouldn't normally. The simple reason for this is that hypnosis is a 19th century sham (kin to mesmerism) and like, let's be brutal, homeopathy more 19th century quackery. More simply some people are suggestible and hypnosis in stage acts allows people to mess about uninhibitedly similar to when they're drunk. So to me (and I haven't seen the film) the film starts on a bad premise. Young Michael is sent to a mental hospital (remember the other Michael from Halloween?). The film's action is when he gets out bent on revenge.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0089002/

 

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