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The Wizard of Gore

  • 1970
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 35min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,2/10
4225
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
B-HorrorSplatter HorrorHorror

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA 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 ... Leggi tuttoA 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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    • Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Allen Kahn
  • Star
    • Ray Sager
    • Judy Cler
    • Wayne Ratay
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,2/10
    4225
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Herschell Gordon Lewis
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Allen Kahn
    • Star
      • Ray Sager
      • Judy Cler
      • Wayne Ratay
    • 78Recensioni degli utenti
    • 53Recensioni della critica
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    Ray Sager
    Ray Sager
    • Montag the Magnificent
    Judy Cler
    Judy Cler
    • Sherry Carson
    Wayne Ratay
    • Jack
    Phil Laurenson
    • Greg
    Jim Rau
    • Steve
    Don Alexander
    • Det. Kramer
    John Elliot
    • Det. Harlan
    • (as John Elliot)
    Karin Alexana
    • Stage Girl #1 - Chainsaw Victim
    Jack Gilbreth
    • Maitre d'Hotel
    Corinne Kirkin
    • Stage Girl #2 - Headpike Victim
    Monica Blackwell
    • Stage Girl #3 - Punchpress Victim
    • (as Monika Blackwell)
    Sally Brody
    Sally Brody
    • Stage Girl #4 - Sword Victim
    Karen Burke
    • Stage Girl #5 - Sword Victim
    Eric Kelner Raynard
    • Coroner
    Sheldon Reis
    • Audience Member
    Julie Yager
    • Secretary
    Charlotte Bell
    Alex Ameri
    • Stage Hand #1
    • (as Ali Ameri)
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      • Herschell Gordon Lewis
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Allen Kahn
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    7dataclast

    A really strange and disturbing masterpiece of hilarious nonsense

    Though this is one of my all time favorite movies, I would still have to give it 7 out of ten because it has too many flaws for me to rate it as a perfect film. For one, the plot does meander and great deal. Also, the characters for the most part are pointless and annoying. Still, this does not matter in the world of Herschell Gordon Lewis. This is easily one of the stupidest, most unbelievable, disturbing and hilarious movies that I have ever seen in my entire life. You'll find yourself laughing out loud as you vomit at the sight of people having swords shoved down their throats, being done in with punch presses, being chainsawed in half and every other disgusting thing you can possibly imagine. Only in the world of cinema can things this ridiculous happen. That's what I love about movies, they take you into a different world, and this movie does just that. Aside from the gore, what really makes this movie stand out is it's evil villain 'MONTAG THE MAGNIFICENT'. After watching this movie, my friend Jason and I decided to start worshipping him and revelling in his badassness. Also, what totally rules about this movie is just how terrible the acting is. Ray Sager is actually the worst actor of all time. It made me laugh the entire time I watched it, yet at the same time his presence has an unnatural creepiness to it. The ending has to be seen to be believed.

    Truly a unique horror film that should be seen by fans of bad cinema or just anyone who wants to be totally grossed out and given nightmares.

    (My personal rating is 10/10)
    5BA_Harrison

    You'll like this; not a lot, but you'll like it.

    A dreadfully repetitive script, coupled with an abysmal central performance from Ray Sager as the titular character (who delivers every last syllable of his many boring monologues in a drawn out manner guaranteed to irritate) make Herschell Gordon Lewis's The Wizard of Gore a real chore to sit through at times; however, several delightfully outrageous moments of cheesy Grand Guignol splatter and a jaw-droppingly daft ending thankfully prevent it from being a complete waste of time.

    Curvacious Judy Cler plays Sherry Carson, a TV talk show host who becomes intrigued by mysterious, mesmeric magician Montag the Magnificent (Sager), who uses his hypnotic powers to lure female volunteers to take part in incredible illusions in which they appear to be mutilated and killed on stage, but are finally revealed to be very much still alive.

    When these same volunteers are found murdered not long after the show is over, with wounds that match those inflicted by Montag during his act, Sherry's boyfriend, a sports reporter, becomes suspicious and alerts the authorities. But the police are unable to tie the grisly murders to the magician, and so Montag is free to continue his act, with his latest and deadliest performance to be broadcast live on Sherry's TV show...

    Montag's messy on stage antics—sawing a woman in half with a chainsaw, removing a girls brains after hammering a spike into her head, using a punch press to squish a lady, forcing swords into throats, and gouging out eyeballs—just about compensate for the terrible acting, poor editing, and a script that leaves so many unanswered questions that it even feels compelled to mention them all at the end. Unsurprisingly, Lewis is unable to deliver many satisfactory answers, and so opts instead for a WTF finalé that somehow transforms The Wizard of Gore from a gleeful slice of low-budget splatter into a totally whacked-out piece of existentialist horror cinema.

    Now that's what I call a trick!
    4Karl Self

    The Wizard Of Bore

    This might have been an excellent short. And it works wonderfully as a fetish movie if seeing young women getting tied up and mutilated is your cup of tea. As a feature movie it's just dire.

    Unusually for a horror movie, it features a young professional woman in one of the leading roles -- and she doesn't even get raped and mutilated in the first five minutes for being a harlot! She investigates a magician who performs gory tricks in his show, with the same girls he performed his tricks on later dieing accordingly. This repeats itself no less than four times (if I counted correctly), each scene lasting maybe ten minutes and being as linear as train tracks in a desert, until her boyfriend muses: "All those girls who went on stage in the show died in the same manner later in the evening. Maybe there's a connection?". His girlfriend is so impressed by his cleverness that she proceeds to fornicate him out of gratitude -- and rightly so. It was the most intelligent moment of the entire movie.

    I'm not asking for too much, am I, here? I just want to be entertained. For that, I'm willing to forfeit good taste, intelligent plot, competent acting at the door. In the Wizard Of Gore, though, Herschell Gordon Lewis reveals himself as a gore fetishist. The premise of blurring reality and imagination may be interesting, but it's never developed into a story. Fail!
    lagriff05

    How quaint.

    While its strange, mystical sense of suspense aids it, this movie is pretty mediocre in all other aspects, and yet I still find myself enjoying it. It's got terrible acting, bad picture quality and shaky, flawed transitions between scenes (and even stranger ones when it tries to demonstrate the Wizard's "power"), but it's still enjoyable. I wouldn't call this a horror movie so much as a strange combination of fantasy and gore, but it fits my Halloween bill well enough. The Wizard of Gore doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then, like Phantasm, it isn't really supposed to.

    There is a 2007 remake of this around, and I might just be inclined to check it out, to see what modern film-making could do for this little gem...
    Infofreak

    One of Herschell Gordon Lewis goriest and dullest movies.

    'The Wizard Of Gore' is one of H.G.Lewis' goriest movies but it is also one of his dullest. More explicit than any of the "blood trilogy" which his reputation rests on, but without a tenth of the entertainment value. In fact I'd say it's even worse than his non-gore turkey 'She-Devils On Wheels'. At least that one had one or two laughs. Ray Sager plays Montag The Magnificent and could be Lewis' most wooden leading man (which is saying a lot!). He plays a magician who causes a sensation by dismembering female volunteers on stage then apparently making them whole again and none the worse for it. However afterwards the girls turn up dead, injured as they were in his "illusions". An ambitious TV talk show host (Judy Cler) and her sceptical sportswriting boyfriend (Wayne Ratay) try and solve the mysterious deaths and determine just what, if anything, Montag has to do with it. Some people seem to inexplicably rate this snoozefest very highly, but if it was the first H.G.Lewis movie I'd ever seen it would probably be my last. The acting is terrible as expected, and the gore is ridiculously unconvincing, but this time round the plot drags, and I found the whole thing terribly unamusing. For Lewis beginners I'd recommend you avoid this one and go straight to his hillbilly horror 'Two Thousand Maniacs!'. It may not be as in-your-face as 'The Wizard Of Gore' but it is a lot more fun.

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      Ray Sager was a last-minute replacement for the original actor cast as Montag who dropped out of the movie right before shooting started.
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      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.
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      [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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    • Data di uscita
      • 23 ottobre 1970 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • House of Torture
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Chicago, Illinois, Stati Uniti
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Mayflower Pictures
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      • 60.000 USD (previsto)
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      • 1.85 : 1

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