For me, the 1980's was the decade where a filmmaker's most gorey visions began to be realistically realized on the screen. Besides a handful of films before them, I think the "slashers" of the early 80's heralded in a what we think of as gorey films.
Unfortunately "The Wizard of Gore" was made in 1970 pre-realistic gore. In general 1970 was a pretty bad year for films. "Love Story" grossed the most at the box office that year. That alone speaks volumes.
"The Wizard of Gore" is nearly one of those films that is so bad it is good.. but not quite. I will say that the acting is definitely so bad that it is funny. However, this film is way too confusing. The basic idea is that there is a magician who can hypnotize women on stage and murder them in various ghastly ways and then un-hypnotize them and they become whole and unscathed again. The problem is that the various cuts show the women whole, murdered, whole, murdered & then whole again. It almost seems like we are supposed to just be imagining the carnage.
In summation, this movie is pretty bad. If you're going to watch a early 70's horror film stick with the good ones like the "Exorcist" or the original slasher film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". On the other hand, if you want to sit around and laugh at some bad acting and see some pig intestines.....check this one out.
Horror revoir
Unfortunately "The Wizard of Gore" was made in 1970 pre-realistic gore. In general 1970 was a pretty bad year for films. "Love Story" grossed the most at the box office that year. That alone speaks volumes.
"The Wizard of Gore" is nearly one of those films that is so bad it is good.. but not quite. I will say that the acting is definitely so bad that it is funny. However, this film is way too confusing. The basic idea is that there is a magician who can hypnotize women on stage and murder them in various ghastly ways and then un-hypnotize them and they become whole and unscathed again. The problem is that the various cuts show the women whole, murdered, whole, murdered & then whole again. It almost seems like we are supposed to just be imagining the carnage.
In summation, this movie is pretty bad. If you're going to watch a early 70's horror film stick with the good ones like the "Exorcist" or the original slasher film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". On the other hand, if you want to sit around and laugh at some bad acting and see some pig intestines.....check this one out.
Horror revoir
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