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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381610222
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 04, 2000
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 14876
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1970
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
'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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not up to the hype
I thought this was going to be a lot better than it actually was. Maybe i'm just jaded, but i could not believe the effects for a second, and the acting was terrible. I know this is supposed to be in the category of "so bad it's good" but maybe with a commentary track by Mike Nelson (Mystery Science Theater 3000) it would be worth owning. Other than that, i found it just boring.
Rating:  - Gore-galore
The Movie was just as god as any B-Rated movie I could hope for why can't movie be like this now just over the limit badassness. Its all about remaking and stealing Asian horror movies or trying to add twist just be bloody and brilliant.
Rating: - $ per blood, you best gore purchase
Grrrra-la la la la la la....
My little gore heart is singing!
What a great endeavor beyond the outskirts of the blood-stained offensive sickening boundaries of cinema! This movie is bloody brilliant. Very entertaining and fun for you lovers of the red stuff.
This was my first look at ole H.G. Initially, when I seen the shady magician and heard his hokey speech to the crowd, I thought man, this is really gonna suck. But Montag the Magnificent backs up his words when he ... Read More
Rating: - Gore or illusion?
Ahh The Wizard of Gore, they just don't make 'em like this anymore. This has got to be one of the most entertaining horror flick's of all time. It's a film from H.G. Lewis, the man that single handedly invented the gore craze with his early 60's gore epic Bloodfeast. This man was pulling off effect's in the early 60's that people can't (or won't) pull off nowaday's. He is the king of drive-in/grindhouse cinema, and one of my favorite director's of all time. Whenever I watch an H.G. Lewis movie (this ... Read More
Rating: - Chris Angel Should Try Some Of This Stuff
Here's another pointless, yet entertaining gore for gore's sake flick from Herschell Gordon Lewis. This time there's a touch of the supernatural as in Two Thousand Maniacs. Montag The Magnificent is an extremely hammy magician who's whole act makes David Copperfield look Shakespearian. Through some kinda hynosis(which is never explained in any kind detail at all) he manages to snag a female "volunteer" from the audience. He then performs an illusion that includes some kind of dangerous stunt(sawing ... Read More
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