Nonureva Really Surprised!

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

NateWatchesCoolMovies The Wizard Of Gore is an inspired little oddball of a flick, based on an obscure oldie that I've never seen, but the absurdity of Crispin Glover as a psychotically evil pseudo Vegas showman is worth the price of admission alone. I've not a clue what the original film's plot is, but here we find Kip Pardue as some private detective, trying to make heads or tails out of Montag The Magnificent (Glover), who uses a combination of dark magic and dodgy airborne pharmaceuticals to trick his audiences into thinking he's dismembered assistants body's onstage, for real. Tricks of the trade, right? Sure, only problem is there's girls turning up dead for real, and the trail leads right back to this spindly, well dressed agent of evil in magician's clothing. I thought it was pretty cool, especially the slick production design and actual effort put into a plot with more tricks up it's sleeve than Criss Angel. Not too mention some jarring gore, which of course the title more than suggests. Brad Dourif, who you may have guessed by now is a favourite of mine, appears as an Asian man named Dr. Chong, with creepy ties to whatever magic is being used in the murders. That's right. Brad Dourif. As an oriental man. I laughed hard, especially since nothing about his appearance or costume is remotely of the orient. Throw in appearances from various cutie pie pinup girls from the Suicide Girls troupe, and you've got something memorable indeed. Check er' out.

catheter1st I missed this when it came out in theaters, I happened to pick it up in a local store used for $2.00. Probably one of the better investments I have made recently.Firstly Crispin Glover, perfect casting choice. I have followed his films since the 80's, and he never disappoints when portraying weird, misguided, misunderstood, or otherwise socially awkward and/or puzzling characters. Bravo. I was not convinced by the lead male character's pseudo William Burroughs persona. But hey, who can really impersonate the legend as well as Peter Weller did in Naked Lunch? I don't think anybody could.Secondly, gore? Yes! The film has a plethora of gore, and the plentiful nude bodies of the Suicide Girls makes it totally worth watching.Thirdly, completely disjointed continuity which adds to the element of surrealism, which I do admit, is achieved in a highly clumsy fashion at times. An homage to the original on purpose, or overzealous and pompous directing and editing? You decide. This film was better then most of the tripe that was released at the same time(2007), and has been released since. Not perfect by any means, but well worth my $2.00.

Aaron1375 Never saw the original 1970 version and not sure if I want to after viewing this one. I am sure it is vastly different in terms of plot, but from what I have read about that one its performances are less than stellar. Here we have some fairly good names as Crispin Glover plays the strange magician Montag and we also have Jeffrey Combs and Brad Douriff. Actors known for their horror roles and they could not even save this one so I really do not want to see a version with less talent. It was not entirely bad, had a couple of good kills and some nice nudity. I was also wondering where the story was going. Unfortunately, it did not end up in a good place for me and so I must say I found for a lot of this movie I was just getting a headache from the way things kept flashing here and there. The story follows a man who sort of owns an underground newspaper or something. I am guessing he is looking for a story as he and his girlfriend are at this strange goth like carnival. Well they end up going to a show titled the Wizard of Gore featuring the magician Montag. The show features this man talking to his audience and disrobing usually a female and then dispatching her in a gruesome way and when the audience starts to flee the lights go out and come on and the girl is apparently fine. She does, however, turn up dead later. So we follow this guy as he goes to each of Montag's shows looking for a story or perhaps more. I will give it credit for trying to do some different things as from what I read about the original it really does not follow that movie's path, but in the end it tries to be to clever and fails a bit.

rbxfromdashow Within film communities, remaking Horror movies is a punishable offense. But then, the question arises when filmmakers reimagine Hershell Gordon Lewis' work. Is it criminal to remake films that were poor quality to begin with? Inspired by the buzz generated on the internet, I sought out the 2007 remake of the Wizard of Gore. We are treated to a different plot than the original, marking this update as a reimagination rather than a direct remake.The story follows journalist Ed Bigelow (Kip Pardue), interested in the hype generated around Montag the Magnificent (Crispin Glover). At each show, women (Suicide Girls: Cricket, Amina Munster, and Nixon) are taken on stage to be mutilated in visceral and grotesque fashions, including one that is gutted, another dismembered, and the last immolated. Much to the audience's shock, each woman leaves free of injury; however, they later die of the same injuries Montag subjected them to. Meanwhile, Dr. Chong (Brad Dourif), Montag's accomplice and supplier (of both women and drugs), keeps Bigelow supplied with a hallucinogenic drug called Tetrodetoxin. Before each show, Montag douses his hands in the said substance and shakes each individual audience members' hands upon entry; Bigelow then begins to notice that Montag completely ignores him. It later becomes revealed that those dead women were actually murdered by Bigelow, as he personally visited each one of them after the show. The story later reveals that his girlfriend (Bijou Phillips) met him through an underground BDSM brothel, where men pay to dominate the women. Montag's "assistant" (portrayed by Jeffrey Combs) in actuality is controlling the environment by subjecting the audience to hallucinations.Where to start? Well, I'll start by declaring it difficult to remake movies to begin with, even (or especially) films that had little substance to begin with. However, while the filmmakers desperately attempted to bring method to the story's madness, the plot ultimately nose dived after one jarring twist after the other; each plot twist made less sense than the last. It seemed rather random that Bigelow was behind their deaths, and that the Geek was controlling everything. As a side note, excusing the gratuity of the Suicide Girls' inclusion (seldom are Splatterfilms modest), it otherwise seemed crassly commercial to me; detailing the selection process in the Behind the Scenes feature further underscores it. Finally, if I may complain, the burn victim looked nothing like an actual burnt body. Seeing that this film was made with CGI, I find it rather inexcusable to use a lousy prop.I'd only recommend to those that wish to see this reimagining. It is somewhat worth watching, but be warned.