Wizard Of Gore (Special Edition)

Wizard Of Gore (Special Edition)
by Herschell Gordon Lewis

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Actor: Jim Rau, Judy Cler, Phil Laurenson, Ray Sager, Wayne Ratay
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment

Movie Reviews of Wizard Of Gore (Special Edition)

Movie Review: A classic in it's own right.
Summary: 3 Stars

While I don't consider this to be an excellent movie, it isn't without merits. The plot is something you would probably hear around a campfire. This could normally spell bad news, but I actually found the plot to be pretty entertaining. There's actually some pretty crazy twists at the end of the movie. One thing this movie accomplishes without question is extreme gore. The sword swallowing scene managed to actually gross me out a little. The acting is pretty lousy, but I found the man who plays the magician to be very entertaining. The way the film was edited, especially during the gory illusions, is pretty lame. The music is incredibly weird, but strangely fitting. In the end this is an extremely gory and interesting movie that's worth watching at least once through.

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Summary of Wizard Of Gore (Special Edition)

Is it magic? Or wholesale slaughter? Montag the Magnificent (Ray Sager), The Wizard of Gore, is a seedy small time magician with a shocking stage act. Hypnotizing pretty young women from the audience to be his obedient volunteers, Montag then proceeds to mutilate them in a series of Grand Guignol illusions. A woman is cut in half with a chainsaw, another is drilled through the stomach with a giant punch press, a metal spike is driven through one gal's head, and two ladies are forced to swallow swords. Trouble is, after the show, the "illusions" become all too horribly real. Blood, guts, and offbeat surrealism in another crackpot classick from "The Wizard of Gore" himself, director Herschell Gordon Lewis.

"People ask me, 'What does this scene mean?' My answer is, 'Why are you looking for significance in my films?' It's just part of the overall impression of unrealism." Director Herschell Gordon Lewis, speaking on the commentary track of The Wizard of Gore special-edition DVD, refers to the film's incomprehensibly red-tinted graveyard scenes, but he could have been referring to any number of moments in this Grand Guignol gross-out. A seedy, histrionic magician caked in cheap pancake makeup cuts a female volunteer in half with a chainsaw, hammers a spike through another woman's head, and eviscerates a parade of unlucky stooges in full view of his audience. They witness an amazing bloodless illusion, but we see what's really going on: a nasty spectacle of blood and guts and gaping wounds and the homicidal wizard rooting around in the gore like a kid in a mud puddle. It has something to do with mass hypnosis, but that doesn't explain how his victims zombie-walk out the door, falling apart minutes later. But that's hardly the attraction of the film, one of the notorious blood feasts that earned Lewis the nickname "Godfather of Gore." The performances are wooden, the dialogue hackneyed, and the effects unconvincing at best, but the film delivers gross-out gore by the buckets and ends with a crazy mind game of a coda. It's not exactly surreal, but it is most certainly unreal. --Sean Axmaker

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