BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Steineded How sad is this?

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

ferbs54 Just watched a Boris Karloff film that I'd not seen before, "The Sorcerers" (1967). In this one, Karloff plays a scientist and hypnotist who has come up with a gizmo that will enable him to control others telepathically, long distance, while at the same time feeling that person's emotions. He and his wife use the gizmo to take control over a mod swinging Londoner (Ian Ogilvy). The two coerce the lad to swim in a pool and speed on a motorcycle, and experience all those feelings in their apartment. But soon, the wife (Catherine Lacey) gets a little too intoxicated with the experiences, and forces Ian into even further deeds for her own pleasure: stealing a fur coat from a store, and even serial killing! This film is surprisingly well done, and features some interesting directorial touches from Michael "The Conqueror Worm" Reeve. It's a bit disconcerting to see Karloff in a film along with psychedelic images and groovy rock music, but he is excellent, as always, even at this late stage in his career. The film builds to a logical and downbeat conclusion, typical for Reeve, and is really a most satisfying experience. I was very pleased at how fine a film this one turned out to be....

Wizard-8 As you may have guessed by my summary line above, "The Sorcerers" is devoid of any people with magical powers. The special powers come from science instead of magic. Though a misleading title isn't enough to sink a movie, so I'll examine the rest of the movie. The movie does offer an intriguing (though even then not original) premise, that being people who manage to control the acts and actions of a person from a distance. However, the execution of the movie is a problem. The movie moves at a very slow pace, even by 1960s standards. And the filmmakers don't offer any new twists along the way, and as a result the movie is pretty predictable. Fans of Boris Karloff may be disappointed that he is quickly moved to what is essentially a supporting role, and that it's pretty obvious that he knocked off his scenes in just a few days. "The Sorcerers" isn't an awful movie, but it's extremely mediocre, and there really isn't anything about it that makes it worth seeking out.

LeonLouisRicci Psychedelia, the Generation Gap, Mind Control, Serial Killer, and London's Swinging Sixties are Some of the Many Elements Explored in this Low-Budget, Artsy Film. One of Only a Few Directed by the Talented Michael Reeves Before His Accidental Overdose at the Age of 25.Boris Karloff was One of those Iconic Actors Willing to Work Until the Very End Like Lionel Barrymore and Vincent Price. He, a True Professional, Always Did What He Could with the Material and was Happy to Contribute as Well as Take Directorial Orders. This One, Along with Targets (1968) and The Raven (1963) were the Best of His Geezer Period.The Film is an Intense and Always Engaging Story of a Bored Young Adult, Ian Ogilvy in a Very Good Performance, Accepting an Invitation to "Experiment" with, Not LSD, but Electronic Hypnosis Brought On by Light and Sound Vibrations. The Scene When He is "Dosed" is a Window Into the Psychedelic Experience of Melting Colors and Wild Images.Katherine Lacy as Karloff's Insane Wife Adds Some Creepy Stuff as She Controls the "Patient". This is a Deep Movie Beneath the Surface and Provides More Philosophy and Intelligence than the Standard Horror/Sci-Fi Stuff of the Era. It is Not Only Literally Cerebral but Violent and Nasty and the Movie has an Ominous Tone that is Disturbing.A Must See for Fans of Cult Movies, the Sixties, Horror/Sci-Fi, and B-Movies. This Could be Called and Experimental Film and Fits Right In to the Changing Face of Cinema Starting in the Mid-Sixties.

bob the moo The once great hypnotist Prof Marcus Montserrat has fallen on hard times since being ridiculed by the press. He now lives in a tiny flat with his loyal wife, selling his services in the window of newsagents. His master project of mind control sits without a subject until wife Estelle hits on the idea of offering the mind-control device as some sort of wild new trip to a generally disaffected youth looking for the next thrill. With this they manage to recruit one Mike Roscoe and find that they can influence his actions and also experience the sensations that he is feeling, whether it is washing his hands or the flutter of desire for a young woman. The power of the device demonstrated, Marcus has plans for the direction it will go but Estelle finds the ability to experience youthful sensations again in your young body to be a great gift that she is unwilling to part with so easily.Everything about this film screams that it will be poor. From the very start we learn that it is dated by throwing in so many "hip" aspects in an attempt to appeal to a younger audience while also being a film late in the life of Boris Karloff where it appears he has selected it because it means most of his scenes are done indoors. The gaudy colour/cinematography doesn't help either and within about ten minutes I could feel my brain writing this review already – dismissing it as a trashy piece of 60's trash, trading on "hip" clichés of youth and music while also alluding to better by having Karloff at the head of the cast. To some extent this first impression is correct because it is very much all of these things but yet it manages to have enough about the central plot to prevent it being a cheap and easy horror film but is something better.It does this by making the scenes with the Monsterrats the most important and engaging scenes in the film and all the 1960's trimmings and young people remain just that – trimmings. The real battle is occurring within this tiny front room and somehow the two cast members manage to make this work despite spending most of their time pretending to feel stuff or concentrating really hard with their eyes closed. Sure Karloff is the star here and does do good work but the film is stolen by a great turn from Catherine Lacey as his wife Estelle. Her fall into madness is well delivered and she becomes the dark heart to the story, even overpowering Karloff himself. Outside of these two the film is generic young people. Ogilvy does reasonably well to convince at being controlled, Ercy and Henry run around and Sheridan looks drop-dead gorgeous. As director Reeves is guilty of some obvious shots and places but when he is in the flat with just Lacey and Karloff, he does manage to produce a genuinely tense atmosphere that is maintained in that room all the way to the memorable final shot.The Sorcerers is not a perfect film by any means but it is much better than I thought it would be and much better than all the trimmings suggest it deserves to be. It has dated and is deliberately "hip" but it works thanks to Karloff, Lacey and some genuine tension in the confines of a grotty little flat.