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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131157994
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: American International Pictures (AIP)
Manufacturer: American International Pictures (AIP)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: American International Pictures (AIP)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 63627
Studio: American International Pictures (AIP)
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A wolf in sheep's clothing...
Ostensibly a run-of-the-mill espionage thriller with radical science flourishes, after 30 minutes of the aforementioned , "The Mind Benders" turns into a harrowing treatise on marital love, which apparently needs a lot of smoke, mirrors and hapless hope to survive. The ending is far from "happy," as the audience feels like they've braved a wet weekend of ghost stories at the end of this nifty littly thriller!!
Rating:  - penny for [all] your THOUGHTS ........
'X' rated by the Brits when released in '62 [well, it DOES feature a 'live' home birth at the end ..... then that dangerous experiment .....] Close to "The Pumpkin Eater" and possibly "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf - with Kids?" - this very advanced thriller set in the early 6oties tentatively explores "Isolation Tanks" - and the effect on its subject - or victim.
BOTH DIRK BOGARDE and MARY URE are stellar as the Mr. & Mrs. involved - Mary Ure especially has fine moments as the ... Read More
Rating:  - Pallid
In spite of the obviously psychedelic packaging for this film, The Mind Benders is marginally science fiction. Instead, this is a drama with SF trappings. The story of a scientist, Dr. Longman, played by Dirk Bogarde, who comes to believe that the suicide of a colleague was caused by prolonged exposure in a sensory deprivation tank, he is forced to prove his theory by a British intelligence agent and undergo the same treatment himself.
The agent is convinced that Longman's colleague ... Read More
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