Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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

loomis78-815-989034 Remake of the 1970 Herschel Gordon Lewis Film follows an underground reporter named Edmund Bigelow (Pardue) to a master illusionist known as Montag The Magnificent (Glover). Montag picks a person from the crowd and butchers them on stage in one form or another. Once the audience is gasping in terror and fright he brings the victim out alive to face the shocked crowd. Problem is the stage victim is turning up dead for real with the wounds inflected on stage. This movie moves into psychedelic areas where it all may be happening in the crazy mind of the main character Bigelow. What it really is, is an excuse for tons of bloody gore and bizarre hallucinogenic moments that may or may not make sense. This could be entertaining to the right Horror film fan but it failed to scare me at all. Crispin Glover has some inspired crazy moments as Montag and Brad Dourif finally got a small role that had some meat on it for him. Well made by Jeremy Kasten, but the movie just doesn't seem to have a point and in the end is just a bloody head scratcher that leaves you feeling filthy when it's over.

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.

Paul Andrews The Wizard of Gore is set in present day Los Angeles where Edmund Bigelow (Kip Pardue) publishes a small underground paper, always looking for the next big thing he decides to go to see a stage magician named Montag the Magnficent (Crispin Glover) after seeing an advertisement. Taking his girlfriend Maggie (Bijou Phillips) with him they are shocked & thrilled by Montag's performance & show in which he appears to rip the guts out of a stripper named Cayenne (Cricket Suicide) only for her to reappear moments later seemingly unharmed. Soon after Edmund hears a news report in which Cayneene's body has been found horribly mutilated & he makes the connection to Montag's show & start to investigate which results in mind bending hallucinations, drugs, mind control & a sinister plot as his life starts to fall apart as Edmund struggles to know the difference between reality & fantasy...Directed by Jeremy Kasten this is maybe a result of the recent spate of big budget Hollywood remakes of classic horror films such as Halloween (1978) & Friday the 13th (1980) & as such is a very loose remake of the low budget Herschell Gordon Lewis exploitation gore film The Wizard of Gore (1970) & I have to say I really wasn't that impressed with this confusing mess of a film. The original 170 The Wizard of Gore was a moderately effective exploitation film with some strong if fake looking gore & had a fairly simple & daft yet entertaining plot while the 2007 remake has a few flashes of gore which look more realistic but have less impact & are less frequent while the plot has been totally revamped & changed with Montag the Magnificent almost a secondary consideration as the script feels more like Naked Lunch (1991) with it's hallucinogenic & drug fuelled plot that gets very confused & has no big pay-off at the end either & the character of Edmund striking similarities to Peter Weller's character in Naked Lunch both visual & conceptual are not unnoticed. The script tries to set the events up as a mystery & some hallucinogenic drug plays a major role as the boundaries between fantasy & reality become blurred in some elaborate plan which just has the effect of the film going weird as you never really know what's going on & the script does a poor job of explaining itself as little resolved. The more I think about it the more the original The Wizard of Gore seems like a masterpiece compared to this.The 2007 The Wizard of Gore does actually look quite nice although it is set in the seedy sleazy underground world of the Los Angeles night life where everyone seems to have copious amounts of tattoo's, piercings & dress in fetish gear, unlike the 1970 The Wizard of Gore which was set very much in the real world the average person can relate too this one isn't. There's some style here with scenes mostly shot using neon lights although there are some seemingly random moments like the cross hatch grid that keeps flashing into view & distortion of background images for no apparent reason. I was disappointed with the gore here, most of Montag's tricks take place behind a literal smoke screen & little is seen, there's some blood splatter, a decapitation with a bear trap, some guts are pulled out, someone is burnt, someone is impaled on glass shards & rats heads are bitten off. One area where this one differs from the original is that there is lots of female nudity on show if that's your thing.Probably shot on a low budget this looks quite nice with decent production values & effects. The cast features some familiar faces including a barely recognisable Jeffrey Combs, Brad Douriff, the pretty Bijou Phillips with Crispin Glover as Montag in a really camp performance that makes the character just look silly rather than threatening or menacing.The Wizard of Gore is a low budget remake of a low budget film that didn't need or want a remake, in trying to make it substantially different it strays too far from the original's concepts & anyone who liked the original for what it was probably won't like this anywhere near as much.

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.