The Great Vorelli (Bryany Halliday) is a hypnotist as well as doing clever acts for shows with his wooden dummy. What people don't realise though is that he is an evil man with powers as well as his doll has a life of it's own.
He spots a woman named Marianne Horn (Yvonne Romain) whom he wants her as his bride and will do anything to have her.

The Great Vorelli is on his way to go to the talent show in which we spot his dummy along with him as there's good takes on all of this making things look mysterious as to what he will do at his show.
When he does his performance by hypnotising people there's one person who stands out as there's a nice shot on Vorelli's eyes towards this person which looked creepy as it left me on the edge of my seat wondering as to what will happen next. It truly looked horrific wondering if this person will be on his death bed by what he is told by this evil man.
Later on in the story Vorelli acts wickedly charming towards Marianne Horn with a drink as this was driven in very deep by what they were discussing and heavily concentrated. For sure he looks like that he is hypnotising her as it makes you wonder as to what will happen later on in the story.
While she returns to the party with her boyfriend Mark English there's a situation when one of the guests that has a discussion with the two of them and she is in a trance as this really caught my attention and am convinced that the spell worked on her and was a nice add into the story.
Vorelli once again did a show with his puppet but this time got this wooden figure to walk and then holds up a knife towards this evil man with the audience at terror in which this for sure left me in suspense wondering if this figure will murder this man. It worked in nicely.
More suspense happens when this time he hypnotises Marianne to do whart he tells her and becoming his new love which was well concentrated plus he creates a new dummy modelled as her. This left me an impression that this added voodoo elements to the story.
Marianne gets sick in bed which looked well done and fits in nicely after as to what we spotted her actions beforehand and falling into the grips of Vorelli.
Vorelli and his mistress Magda Cardenas ends up in a heated argument as to what he is doing as this left me an impression that she will be his victim for crossing him as this scene was well crafted.
Vorelli does another performance in which this looked confusing as he does a sacrifice. It first seemed like a woman on a table but then a guy appears after he is stabbed. Try figuring this piece while watching this scene unravel as I still can't figure this one out.
Although the first moments within these scene's it looked like a very good story but it ends off as a bit of a disappointment later on with the story lagging a bit with more dialogues to fill in the story but that's just me.
Near the end of the story there's a struggling moment between Vorelli and the doll which looked a bit intense and then when Mark enters there's a different twist with these two which looked very strange in a Twilight Zone type of fashion.
Bottom line is that the story seems well done but a little trite and adds up the suspense big time but seems to be a bit of a disappointment in which I love classic horror but this film isn't bad at all. Just needed a bit of a push. It made me wonder if the makers from Child's Play saw this and tried to add the same chemistry.

The acting is good in which Bryant Haliday (The Great Vorelli) really lived up to his role having a great mysterious attitude as well as being both expressionless and emotionless. Has a great cold stare along with his speaking and knew on how to have a hissing in his speaking. Does a great job with acting creepily charming along with hypnotising someone else. Yes he studied this role marvellously.
William Sylvester (Mark English) played the clean cut looking one in which he adds alot of energy and charm to this. Was great with his seriousness as well as doing his job really getting to the point of things towards others. He had a great appeal onto the camera and does well with his characteristics.
Yvonne Romain (Marianne Horn) was terrific as a soft spoken one becoming the victim to Vorelli in which she really got in touch with her part. She shows nice nervousness in some spots of the story as well as doing well by getting hypnotic. She also reacts well to being sick. She had the nice looks for this role and was a good choice.
Sandra Dorne (Magda Cardenas) had an effective supporting role in the story as the mistress in which she does well with her aggressive attitude as well as coming off strong and energy along with having some spunkiness. She had the right motives.

Great smooth classical composing especially during the opening credits with fast paced violins along with high sounding trombone's as it was also used in certain other parts of the story. What really sounded creepy was low sounds deep and gloomy like for when the maniac does some of his wicked deeds which fit perfectly to keep you in your chair wondering if something terrifying is about to come out during that moment.