The Wizard of Gore

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A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his ... Read allA TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.

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5.2/10

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Trivia
Ray Sager was a last-minute replacement for the original actor cast as Montag who dropped out of the movie right before shooting started.

Goofs
When Jack reads the newspaper announcing the second murder, the articles are obviously pasted onto the paper rather than printed on it; the corner of one article is clearly peeling away from the paper.

Quotes
[last lines]
[Montag fails to kill Sherry, who laughs maniacally after being disenboweled]
Montag the Magnificent: How dare you laugh! HOW DARE YOU!
Sherry Carson: [sits up] Look at ME now if you dare! Look into MY eyes!
Montag the Magnificent: [goes uneasy] What will I see there?
Sherry Carson: The past... and the future. Do you think you're the only one who deals an illusion?
Montag the Magnificent: You mean... you? You too?
Sherry Carson: I, too. And you... you are my illusion. You are no longer even here. You'll have to start your little charade all over again.
Montag the Magnificent: [stunned] But I... I... I am Montag!
[Montag suddenly finds himself back on stage all the way back to the beginning of the movie]
Montag the Magnificent: Yes! I am Montag, master of illusion! The fire of the laws of reason! What... is real? Are you certain you know what reality is?
[Sherry and Jack are seen within the audience]
Montag the Magnificent: How do you know that at this second you aren't sleeping in your beds dreaming that you are here sitting in this theater?
Sherry Carson: [whispers to Jack] You know what I think?
Jack: What?
Sherry Carson: I think he's a phony.

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Featured in Film House Fever (1986)

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7/10

So-Bad-It's-Good Definitely Applies Here

This movie has been on my Netflix queue for quite a while so I can safely say that I've wanted to see it since before Juno was out. This is the fourth Herschell Gordon Lewis film I've seen so far and only the second I've liked, the other was Two Thousand Maniacs. This, much like Two Thousand Maniacs, is a good movie. Not because it actually has substance and is well thought out, but because it is a lot of fun to watch and has become a cult classic.

Let's be honest for a minute here, when Herschell Gordon Lewis was directing films, he had no idea what he was doing. As a friend of mine said "he is the Ed Wood of gore films." I have to agree completely. The editing is always choppy and horrible, the music is poorly placed, the acting seems to be straight out of a junior high play, and nothing seems believable. This brings me to the gore. If HGL only got one thing right in his career, it was gore. The gore in this film is awesome and cheesy. He may have made bad films, but they sure are entertaining.

Sorry for going off on so many tangents, I'll get back to this movie. The story follows a TV reporter and her boyfriend who attend a magician's show of blood and dismemberment. They become suspicious of several deaths being linked to the show. It's a simple story but it is a lot of fun. I really like the magician theme. The bad acting factor definitely applies in this movie. I often wonder where HGL found these people. But as always, the gore is magnificent(no pun intended) and almost saves the movie. I had a lot fun with it.

See this movie if you're a fan of Herschell Gordon Lewis and you won't find much of anything new but it is a very good time. Go! Now!