The Wizard of Gore (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Wizard of Gore |
| Original title | The Wizard of Gore |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jeremy Kasten |
| script | Zach Chassler |
| production |
Christopher Duddy Glenn W. Garland Dan Griffiths Jeremy Kasten |
| music | Steve Porcaro |
| camera | Christopher Duddy |
| cut | Jeremy Kasten |
| occupation | |
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The Wizard of Gore is a 2007 horror film directed by Jeremy Kasten . It is a remake of the 1970 film The Wizard of Gore by Herschell Gordon Lewis . The film combines stylistic elements of splatter film with those of film noir . In Germany the film is also distributed as Gore Massacre .
action
Edmund Bigelow is a largely unsuccessful publisher of an underground magazine . When he and his girlfriend Maggie attended a performance by the magician Montag the Magnificent at the Carnival of Horror , he was absolutely thrilled. The Wizard sets out on stage, a strip dancer gut . But the next day the enthusiasm fades: the girl is really dead. Edmund begins to research further, also with the help of his colleague Jinky, an intern with the homicide department. He also attends other performances of the magician, in which more women are killed, including with bear traps and a metal oven. The women are always alive at the end of the performance, but the next morning they are dead under mysterious circumstances. During his research, Edmund begins to doubt his sanity, he has dreams of the murder of the girls he is the perpetrator.
He comes across a human trafficker and alternative medicine practitioner named Dr. Chong, who leads him on the trail of a girl trafficking. Apparently, the wizard's spectators and victims were paralyzed and rendered helpless by tetrodotoxin , a nerve poison from a puffer fish . Also, something seems to be wrong with Maggie. Most likely, Edmund also “acquired” this through a girl trafficking ring. Maggie and Jinky are apparently killed by Edmund after attending the performance. After further research, he finally gets to the bottom of the matter: Dr. Chong himself made him his slave to get revenge on the wizard. He had "stolen" some girls from him.
Edmund kills Montag and puts his aides and Dr. Chong drugged. Now he's the organizer of the show.
background
The film has little to do with the original of the same name; only the title and the basic story (bloody magic show) were retained. The splatter effects are also much less explicit compared to the original and partly take place behind thick fog.
The film was shot in 2006 in MacArthur Park and an abandoned Park Plaza hotel in Los Angeles . All interior shots were filmed in the hotel that was used as a crack cave for some time . The former rooms have been converted.
The set designs themselves are based on the Art Déco of the 1940s. Crispin Glover based his portrayal of the magician on the style of Siegfried and Roy . Edmund Bigelow is portrayed in the style of Philip Marlowe . Several SuicideGirls were hired to portray the victims of the magician, but also as extras at the Carnival of Horror , some of which performed free of charge.
criticism
The film received mediocre reviews from the critics. The look and the plot were mostly praised, but many critics found the film to be relatively low-tension.
“The bottom line is that Jeremy Kasten's version of HG Lewis' movie“ The Wizard of Gore ”is a somewhat ambiguous film that couldn't add any significant impetus to the original story. In any case, he doesn't really stand out from the mass of remakes that have been let loose on us for years. "
Web links
- Official website
- The Wizard of Gore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on March 23, 2014
- ↑ a b c Review: The Wizard of Gore (2006). Chilidog.project-equinox.de, May 16, 2009, accessed on June 27, 2011 .
- ↑ a b The Wizard of Gore : Making of , MIG / EuroVideo, DVD, 2009
- ↑ The Wizard of Gore: The Suicide Girls , MIG / EuroVideo, DVD, 2009
- ^ Jon Condit: Review: The Wizard of Gore (2007). Dreadcentral.com, June 23, 2007, accessed June 27, 2011 .