Based on a cultfavorite gore film from hershel gordon lewis, the wizard of gore also features several members of the contemporary. The wizard of gore is a film directed by jeremy kasten with crispin glover, kip pardue, bijou phillips, jeffrey combs, year. Rent the wizard of gore 2007 film for free as part of our trial offer. See the full list of the wizard of gore cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. The wizard of gore 1970 ray sager, judy cler, wayne ratay feature horror. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the worlds most diabolically ingenious murders. Wizard of gore 2007 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. The film was notably referenced and a scene is shown in the 2007 film juno. Jeremy kasten crispin glover, brad dourif, jeffrey combs 1h36min. It has a plot so incomprehensible and convoluted that i am shocked. The wizard of gore 2007 r 0622 2007 us mystery, horror 1h 34m user score. The wizard of gore is a phantasmagoric journey into a gloomy carnival milieu where a fiendish magician named montag glover appears to be slaughtering people on stage.
Jeremy kasten remakes and updates herschell gordon lewis grimy grand guignol 1970 horror. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the wizard of gore 2007 near you. In the late 60s and beyond lewis pioneered the bloody splatter film. Hypnotizing pretty young women from the audience to be his obedient volunteers, monage then proceeds to mutilate them in a series of grand guignol illusions. The dvd release of the wizard of gore remake offers a pristine digital transfer of the film in its theatrical aspect ratio of 1. The wizard of gore is a 2007 splatternoir horror film directed by jeremy kasten and starring kip pardue, bijou phillips, crispin glover, joshua miller, brad. Maybe i got a little too excited at the prospect of a horror film with crispin glover, brad dourif and jeffrey combs but instead, all i got was gaudy garbage. But wizard of gore gets confusing as edmund develops an obsession for discovering montags magic, only to face his ultimate horror. I can appreciate his impact on the genre i love and film in general with his invention of the gore film but even examined contextually which is always the way to look at these things, i can only really warm to the audacity of 2000 maniacs. A woman is cut in half with a chainsaw, another is drilled through the. The incredibly strange film show an episode of the cult. His movies always looked cheap and featured over the top acting but plenty of blood. Horror fanatics familiar with lewis oeuvre know that his films are entertaining and.
The gore the merrier an interview with jeremy kasten, director of the 2007 wizard of gore remake the incredibly strange film show an episode of the cult documentary series focusing on the films of herschell gordon lewis. The wizard of gore is simply terrible, everything about it was just awful. While the former is about a madman who hypnotizes and tortures his victims as part of an illusionary stage show, the other is about a college professor who builds a machine to create women out of thin air. The wizard of gore is a 1970 american splatter film directed by herschell gordon lewis and. The wizard of gore the wizard of gore tt0765487 8e67f25ce833836c14fa25a191ced73c 2007 u. The wizard of gore 2007, a skinfilled remake of herschel gordon lewiss classic 1970 shocker of the same title, stars the enigmatic crispin glover as murderous magician montag the magnificent. Montag the magnificent glover is a master illusionist who performs at underground venues, selecting female volunteers from his ravelike audiences. A killer copies the dismemberments that an illusionist. An existentialist gorn movie by herschell gordon lewis, previously known for blood feast, a taste of blood, and the gruesome twosome, the wizard of gore follows sherry carson, a tv show host, and her fiance, jack, as they try to unravel the mystery of montag the magnificent, a stage magician whose volunteers wind up dead after the show in a fashion identical to their onstage death. The wizard of gore, another remake of a cult film, is one of the absolute worst fucking things ive ever seen. The wizard of gore is a 1970 american splatter film directed by herschell gordon lewis and starring ray sager, judy cler, and wayne ratay. The wizard of gore is a 2007 splatternoir horror film directed by jeremy kasten and starring kip pardue, bijou phillips, crispin glover, joshua miller, brad dourif, jeffrey combs, and the suicide girls.
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome illusions of montag the magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. The gore the merrier is a seven minute interview with jeremy kasten, director of the 2007 wizard of gore remake who talks about the blood thirst inherent in humanity, how gore and humor can often times go hand in hand and from there how he got into lewis movies, his thoughts on the mans films, how it used to be quite tough to find them and. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Having established his place at the more visceral end of exploitation cinema with blood feast 1963, two thousand maniacs. During his stage show, montag brings up beautiful women from his audience and pretends to dismember them while he actually dismembers them. The gore the merrier an interview with jeremy kasten, director of the 2007 wizard of gore remake. Headspace 2005, curse of the zodiac 2007, bloody murder 2. The wizard of gore is a do over of one of herschell gordon lewiss better movies. The film is a remake of the 1970 herschell gordon lewis film of the same name. The wizard of gore first published by film4 synopsis.