Wizard Of Gore (Special Edition)
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• NTSC
In Theaters : 23 October, 1970
DVD Release : 04 April, 2000 |
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Wizard Of Gore (Special Edition) description
"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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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 in particular), I'm reminded of why I love horror so much.
Wizard of Gore is one of his later 70's flick's and my personal favorite H.G. Lewis film, also one of his last. The story is about a magician that like's to dismantle his viewing audience with extremely brutal magic trick's (or are they magic trick's at all?) after hypnitizing them to volunteer for the show. Some of his "trick's" include crushing a girl with a punch press, a nice little sword swallowing act, a spike driven through the brain, and a girl sawed in half (by chainsaw I might add), among some other gory treats.
What I really love about Wizard of Gore is how H.G. Lewis plays with the audience's mind by drawing a fine line between reality and illusion by using cut's during gore scenes from what is really happening to what the audience is actually seeing happen. Of course all of his classic trademark's are in full swing here, the trippy jazz/fusion music, the hilariously brilliant dioluge, awesome screenplay, the glorious gore effect's, and not to mention it has the coolest name and box-art for a horror movie ever. Any fan's of extreme horror/grindhouse/drive-in cinema must see this film. Highly recommended.
"Torture and terror have always fascinated mankind, perhaps whatever made your predisesors see the sadism of the inqisition and the gore of a gladiaters arena, is the same thing that makes you stare at bloody highway accident's and thrill to the terror of death".
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