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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019814270
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Genius Products (TVN)
Manufacturer: Genius Products (TVN)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Genius Products (TVN)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 18038
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
Magic, madness and mayhem join in this diabolical remake of the 1970 horror cult classic. Crispin Glover (Willard) stars as a master illusionist whose female audience participants (The Suicide Girls) are hideously murdered onstage, only to miraculously reappear untouched. But when a smart reporter (Kip Pardue, Remember the Titans) finds they re later turning up dead with the same wounds as those inflicted during the performance, his investigation leads to unimaginable terror. Featuring Bijou Phillips (Hostel: Part II) and Brad Dourif (Rob Zombie s Halloween), Wizard of Gore takes you on a terrifying journey deep into the heart of evil.
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Remade as a tribute to the original Wizard of Gore, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis of Blood Feast and The Gore Gore Girls fame, this 'post punk' version of Wizard of Gore is actually better as a concept than as a filmic success. Director Jeremy Kasten’s hopes and visions for the movie, revealed during ample making-of and interview footage, eclipse what unfolds on screen, which is a convoluted bloodbath somehow held together by Crispin Glover’s bizarre portrayal of Montag the Magnificent, the alleged perpetrator of violence. Plot-wise, Edmund Bigelow (Kip Pardue) drags his girlfriend, Maggie (Bijou Phillips) along to underground magic shows where Montag hypnotizes the audience into believing they are witnessing the dismemberment of his victims. Opening the first performance with maggot eating, the beheading of a rat, and Montag’s swallowing of a neon lightbulb which explodes in his stomach, one senses ample gore to come. Kasten does manage to make the goriest scenes the sexiest, mainly because he cast the tattooed strip-tease troupe, the Suicide Girls, to take Montag’s heat. Montag’s first victim, Cayenne (Cricket Suicide) is sliced like a holiday ham while others like Cecelia (Amina Munster) utilize prosthetic legs and more to beef up the already carnivalesque element throughout the film. But Wizard of Gore gets confusing as Edmund develops an obsession for discovering Montag’s magic, only to face his ultimate horror. As the entire film takes place in dark alleys, dingy nightclubs, and in secluded rooms owned by perverts and criminals, the tone is so secretive that it is hard for the viewer to figure out who is actually dying, and who is doing the killing. Though the idea of aesthetically updating Lewis’s version to reflect the Los Angeles post-punk scene sounds potentially interesting, this version unfortunately has nothing on the original, which at least retains shock value when reminding oneself that it came out in 1970. Indeed, the best aspects of this Wizard of Gore DVD are the extras elucidating how the blood was made, how it was shed, and how the victims felt about getting slaughtered on set. The short documentary, 'From Volunteer To Victim,' for example, splices interviews with Kasten between clips of the Suicide Girls being cast in roles then braving the weaponry, which is great entertainment in itself. --Trinie Dalton
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Rating:  - Reality/Illusion/Somewhere in the middle is Neither
I announce, with trembling, the remake of Hershell Gordon Lewis' "The Wizard of Gore" is a dazzling, brain jarring, reality bending and breaking masterpiece. The oft-asked, Why don't they take a crummy film and make a classic?--they have. A merging of so much complexity, directed and written and acted and lensed to highest artistry-this is a film to be noticed. It is one of those movies that says at the first minute, you are going to have a good time. Jim Thompson's killer inside me. Film noir of much assured perfection.
Fragments of pain and magic and resurrection, with a meat puppet allegory-as we use the inside of ourselves and find that ticket to the magician show is all we live for. The blood and gore used for ink is no accident and it is an assiduous audacious idea.
That one of the worst filmmakers ever could be used to bounce this bunny trail of towering, biting intelligence is cause for celebration. Crispin Glover, Kip Pardue and Bijou Phillips are honed to the nth degree in this land of going thru the lowest basement and finding the clue to the whole baffling thing is crafted right in front of your eyes, keeping you guessing, keeping you running it back and in your memory too--this is a friend of a movie. Take all the crack reviews of "Five Across the Eyes," which was a joke, and put them on this film instead. And the SuicideGirls are hot of course. Slam land and lower binges and who gets theirs first? And again.
Zach Chassler has written, and Jeremy Kasten has directed, ... Read More
Rating:  - Improved Cinematic Wizardry...and Better Gore, Too!
Director Herschell Gordon Lewis' THE WIZARD OF GORE (1970) is a cult exploitation film with a reputation that is greater than the actual quality of the film itself. Still, it has an interesting, if poorly executed, premise--a magician uses his exceptional hypnotism skills to prevent his audience from realizing that, before their very eyes, he is literally killing people during his act--that is compelling enough to hold an audience through the entire film despite the poor acting, the egregious special FX, and a plot with more holes than a brick of Swiss cheese. After viewing the film, one can't help but wonder what would happen if that premise could be used in a film that has a good writer, a skilled director, great actors, and convincing special FX. Well, one need wonder no more: Jeremy Kasten's 2007 remake is everything Lewis' original film could have been...and then some.
In the 2007 remake of THE WIZARD OF GORE, screenwriter Zach Chassler takes the premise of the original film and spins it into a contemporary urban mystery that takes place in the post-punk underground of present-day Los Angeles. In the midst of the murder mystery, Chasslers story also raises interesting questions about the nature of reality and the trustworthiness of human perception. Visually, the new film's aesthetic is based on the tattoos, piercings, and dreadlocks--not to mention the copious T&A--of the Goth pin-ups known as the Suicide Girls (a few of whom even appear in the film in minor roles), providing a dark ... Read More
Rating:  - So... Was The Point Of This Remake To Prove...
What a horrible actor Crispin Glover is? To be honest, yes, I did purchase this film, and I didn't make it to the end. The only thing Crispin did convincingly was to portray Marty McFly's father in the first Back To The Future movie. Other than that, he's worthless. OK, so he did a decent job in the remake of Willard, but that's not saying much. He even did a horrible job in the Friday The 13th Part IV. Especially his death scene which was pleasing only to know he wouldn't return.
I made it about 45 minutes into the movie before I took it out and literally threw it in the garbage. But CG is mostly to blame for this terrible POS, and his acting as well. Why he was even chosen for this role is beyond me. I guess nobody else tried out.
Do NOT waste your time on this movie, don't even rent it. It was even a struggle to make it as far as I did, and I bought it. Rent a movie you've never even heard of before you try this garbage. I'm sorry I did. Thumbs down, with the thumb reaching below hades standards. Move on.
Rating: - 3 outta 3
Good gore. Naked Suicide Girls. Over the top Crispen Glover. What more could you ask for?
Rating: - A wonderful wizard
Though I have not seen the original, I am aware of it's cult status. This flick impressed me from the beginning. With a super low budget the director creates mood with great lighting and clever use of sets. The always creepy Crispen Glover does not fail to kick it up to heebie geebies, and well who doesn't like the suicide girls. If you are a fan of independant horror, or a gore love..this one is for you.
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