The Wizard of Gore2007
“What are you afraid of?”
Directed by Jeremy Kasten
🏆 1 win total
The premise
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
Horror Vault's take
A charismatic and deeply unsettling stage magician named Montag the Magnificent performs brutal grand-guignol illusions that somehow manifest as real deaths after the curtain falls. An underground journalist smells a story and begins pulling at threads — only to find that the deeper he digs, the more reality itself seems to unravel around him. With a deliriously strange cast headlined by Crispin Glover and featuring cult icons Jeffrey Combs and Brad Dourif, this neo-grindhouse remake weaponizes its sleazy carnival atmosphere into something genuinely mind-bending. Fans of transgressive cinema will find this a challenging, hallucinatory ride.
Content: Graphic Gore, Body Horror, Disturbing Imagery, Strong Violence
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