Vorelli taunts Hugo into murdering Magda with a knife when Vorelli is visiting with stage crew elsewhere. Vorelli's current assistant and lover, Magda, is outraged at his rape of Marianne and threatens to go to the police. Mark suspects Vorelli deliberately hypnotized Hugo to die from the knife wound, but his concerns over Vorelli are greatly assuaged when he hears that Marianne has awoken from her comatose state. The death was ruled an accident, and no one believed Mercedes's story, despite a theatre worker testifying he saw the dummy move immediately after Hugo screamed in pain. Hugo was comatose for three months, during which Vorelli transferred Hugo's soul into the dummy, resulting in his death. One night, Vorelli stabbed Hugo on stage, and this time Hugo reacted with pain. Mercedes would catch the two in strange conferences. She tells Mark that another assistant, Hugo, worked for Vorelli in 1947, and was hypnotized into a state where he could not feel pain as part of their act. The colleague guides Mark to a former assistant of Vorelli's who lives in Berlin, named Mercedes. Through a colleague, Mark discovers that Vorelli was a medical doctor who dabbled in Eastern magic and was disbarred. Mark realizes her state is the result of being hypnotized by Vorelli, and begins an investigation into Vorelli's past. In one lucid moment, she tells Mark that "He keeps calling me" and "Make him stop". Marianne falls into a semi- coma that the doctors cannot alleviate. Hugo appears in Mark's room and pleads "Help me. The night of the ball, Vorelli stays at the mansion of Marianne's aunt, where he rapes Marianne after using his power to subdue her will. Mark secretly examines Hugo, and finds he is a simple dummy, without clockwork mechanisms, a space for an operator, or any other feature that might allow him to walk on his own. The guests assume this is part of Vorelli's act. While Vorelli performs his ventriloquism at the ball, Hugo takes a knife from the buffet table and tries to stab Vorelli, only stopping when Vorelli focuses all his will.
Mark, wanting a closer look at Hugo to determine how this trick is performed, gets Marianne to invite Vorelli to her aunt's charity ball.
During Vorelli's ventriloquism act, Hugo gets up from his chair and walks around, seemingly under his own power. Vorelli hypnotizes her and makes her dance the Twist. American reporter Mark English is assigned a story on Vorelli, and solicits his girlfriend Marianne Horn, a wealthy heiress, to go with him to another show.Īt the show, Vorelli asks for a volunteer. The audience observes tension between the ventriloquist and Hugo, who Vorelli keeps in a locked cage between performances. Hypnotist/magician "The Great Vorelli" and his dummy Hugo perform before a packed audience in London. It stars William Sylvester and Yvonne Romain. Devil Doll is a 1964 British horror film about an evil ventriloquist, "The Great Vorelli", and his dummy Hugo, directed by Lindsay Shonteff.
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