The Wizard of Gore 1970 123movies

Watch: The Wizard of Gore 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – A magician performs a show where he selects a female volunteer and appears to put swords, drills, and such through them. They walk away and everyone applauds, then they show up somewhere else, dead of the same injuries they sustained in the magic show. Police are baffled and can’t tie the murders to the magician. A man whose girlfriend is infatuated with the show begins to investigate on his own..
Plot: A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
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So-Bad-It’s-Good Definitely Applies Here
This movie has been on my Netflix queue for quite a while so I can safely say that I’ve wanted to see it since before Juno was out. This is the fourth Herschell Gordon Lewis film I’ve seen so far and only the second I’ve liked, the other was Two Thousand Maniacs. This, much like Two Thousand Maniacs, is a good movie. Not because it actually has substance and is well thought out, but because it is a lot of fun to watch and has become a cult classic.

Let’s be honest for a minute here, when Herschell Gordon Lewis was directing films, he had no idea what he was doing. As a friend of mine said “he is the Ed Wood of gore films.” I have to agree completely. The editing is always choppy and horrible, the music is poorly placed, the acting seems to be straight out of a junior high play, and nothing seems believable. This brings me to the gore. If HGL only got one thing right in his career, it was gore. The gore in this film is awesome and cheesy. He may have made bad films, but they sure are entertaining.

Sorry for going off on so many tangents, I’ll get back to this movie. The story follows a TV reporter and her boyfriend who attend a magician’s show of blood and dismemberment. They become suspicious of several deaths being linked to the show. It’s a simple story but it is a lot of fun. I really like the magician theme. The bad acting factor definitely applies in this movie. I often wonder where HGL found these people. But as always, the gore is magnificent(no pun intended) and almost saves the movie. I had a lot fun with it.

See this movie if you’re a fan of Herschell Gordon Lewis and you won’t find much of anything new but it is a very good time. Go! Now!

A cheesy good time
“The Wizard of Gore” isn’t much more than a confusing gore opus.

**SPOILERS**

Dragged along to a magic act, sports columnist Jack, (Wayne Ratay) and his TV hostess fiancée Shelly Carson, (Judy Cler) go along to Montag the Magnificent, (Ray Sager) perform his show. For his final act, he does a variation on a standard illusion and looks to physically saw a woman in half without doing so in a box. Afterwards, the volunteer appears fine only to be found dead later on with a wound exactly as it appeared during the performance. Getting curious, she asks him to appear on her show and perform there, to which he agrees and asks them both to appear at future shows. When a series of murders begins taking place where the volunteers begin dying in the same fashion as the illusion they perform in the show. Getting suspicious, they finally lay a trap for him during his TV appearance and try to solve his mystery once and for all.

The Good News: While there wasn’t a whole lot of good things, what was there wasn’t bad. The film’s biggest claim is the high amount of gore on display from the different illusions. These certainly are pretty graphic ones, with one chainsawed in half in full view of the audience, a metal spike shoved into the side of the head, swords shoved into the mouth and down the throat, one set on fire and another pressed into a whole with a metallic press, among others. These are all quite brutally done and manage to look possible as well. That’s a fantastic trick to accomplish and this one does it nicely. The film’s only other positive point is the really nice conclusion. This is where the film picks up it’s pace and intensity slightly from before, allowing for a little more excitement and thus brings the film up slightly. The film’s real power, though, lies in it’s powerful illusions and extreme gore.

The Bad News: While this one wasn’t that bad, there’s still some pretty big flaws here. The fact that the extreme gore here terrible and completely unconvincing is something to get over. The pressing illusion is the big one to get over, as the fact that the blood comes out as thick, gloppy mess is just so wrong that the disbelief at it outweighs the graphicness of it. It’s the wrong color, shape, form and even its action that it takes, as real blood doesn’t behave in that manner. It’s just way too noticeable to be shocking or convincing, and the act that’s being taken to drive the blood is where it gets it’s impact from. The near incoherent plot doesn’t help matters. This bounces around from scene to scene quite frequently, rarely tying up any loose ends left from the previous scene before raising a new one from that sequence. This gives the film a really disjointed feel, moving around as much as it does and then it goes ahead and finally solves the mystery at the end, only for the film’s real remaining questions to be brought up by one of the characters in conversation with another and the whole thing then dismissed. It’s not that smart of a film to do such a maneuver, and this one is no exception. Otherwise, this wasn’t that bad.

The Final Verdict: One of Lewis’ more watchable films, this one though adds in the extra fact of a confusing story along with the traditional trademarks. Highly watchable for gore-hounds or Lewis fans, while those who aren’t or find the flaws to be deal-breakers, seek other viewing.

Today’s Rating-R: Graphic Violence

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 60000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Horror
Director Herschell Gordon Lewis
Writer Allen Kahn
Actors Ray Sager, Judy Cler, Wayne Ratay
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Eastmancolor
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm