History Film / TheWizardOfGore

An existentialist {{Gorn}} movie by Creator/HerschellGordonLewis, previously known for ''Film/BloodFeast'', ''A Taste of Blood'', and ''The Gruesome Twosome'', ''The Wizard of Gore'' follows Sherry Carson, a TV Show host, and her fiance, Jack, as they try to unravel the mystery of Montag the Magnificent, a stage magician whose volunteers wind up dead after the show in a fashion identical to their on-stage "death".

* AllJustADream: Implied to be the case. Until, of course, the credits ask, OrWasItADream?
* TheCuckooLanderWasRight: Greg doesn't really offer anything in the way of explanations and is justifiably getting on the nerves of all the policemen, but after killing Montag, Greg convinces absolutely everyone, including the policemen who are there to find out who the murderer is *after* Montag's act, that he pushed Montag into the fire because Montag had hypnotized all of them and was somehow trying to harm them--except he's not sure how. Also, he points out that he saw their hands were all bleeding for a reason he can't explain, but the blood is gone now. Further, everyone except him was being hypnotized because he wasn't paying attention to Montag when Montag was staring at the camera, and he was the *only* person lucky enough to be too distracted to pay attention out of nothing but boredom. Not one person questions his totally absurd and psychotic explanation and everyone considers it the truth, even though no one thought Montag was the killer to begin with and there isn't any evidence whatsoever to back up his explanation of why he just murdered Montag or that Montag had killed anyone at all.

* {{Gorn}}: One woman gets cut up with a chainsaw. One gets a railroad spike through the head. Another is perforated with a punch press. All scenes include huge gouts of blood and shots of Montag gleefully yanking out handfuls of brains and guts.

* MassHypnosis: Implied to be how Montag prevents his audience from realizing he's murdering people onstage. His final plot is to [[spoiler:hypnotize the entire audience of the TV show and... do something.]]

The special effects were horrifically bloody for their time but have not aged well. The acting is amateurish. The movie delights in ShockingSwerve after Shocking Swerve. But overall, it is not an experience to be missed.

* HoistOnHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Montag summons mysterious flames that he attempts to lead Sherry and the others into Pied Piper-style, only to seemingly die when Jack pushes him into the fire.]]

* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Montag takes Jack's place by wearing a perfect latex mask of Jack that even conceals the fact that Montag has a moustache. [[OrIsIt Or does he?]]]]

In 2007, a remake was made with Crispin Glover in the role of Montag the Magnificent.

An existentialist {{Gorn}} movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, previously known for ''Film/BloodFeast'', ''A Taste of Blood'', and ''The Gruesome Twosome'', ''The Wizard of Gore'' follows Sherry Carson, a TV Show host, and her fiance, Jack, as they try to unravel the mystery of Montag the Magnificent, a stage magician whose volunteers wind up dead after the show in a fashion identical to their on-stage "death".

An existentialist {{Gorn}} movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, previously known for ''BloodFeast'', ''A Taste of Blood'', and ''The Gruesome Twosome'', ''The Wizard of Gore'' follows Sherry Carson, a TV Show host, and her fiance, Jack, as they try to unravel the mystery of Montag the Magnificent, a stage magician whose volunteers wind up dead after the show in a fashion identical to their on-stage "death".

An existentialist {{Gorn}} movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, previously known for ''A Taste of Blood'' and ''The Gruesome Twosome'', ''The Wizard of Gore'' follows Sherry Carson, a TV Show host, and her fiance, Jack, as they try to unravel the mystery of Montag the Magnificent, a stage magician whose volunteers wind up dead after the show in a fashion identical to their on-stage "death".

* AllJustADream: Implied to be the case. Until, of course, the credits ask, OrWasItADream?

* TheCuckooLanderWasRight: Greg doesn't really offer anything in the way of explanations and is justifiably getting on the nerves of all the policemen, but after killing Montag, Greg convinces absolutely everyone, , including the policemen who are there to find out who the murderer is *after* Montag's act, that he pushed Montag into the fire because Montag had hypnotized had all of them and was somehow trying to harm them--except he's not sure how. Also, he points out that he saw their hands were all bleeding for a reason he can't explain, but the blood is gone now. Further, everyone except him was being hypnotized because he wasn't paying attention to Montag when Montag was staring at the camera, and he was the *only* person lucky enough to be too distracted to pay attention out of nothing but boredom. Not one person questions his totally absurd and psychotic explanation and everyone considers it the truth, even though no one thought Montag was the killer to begin with and there isn't any evidence whatsoever to back up his explanation of why he just murdered Montag or that Montag had killed anyone at all.

* TheCuckooLanderWasRight: After killing Montag, Greg convinces absolutely everyone, including the policemen who are there to find out who the murderer is *after* Montag's act, that he pushed Montag into the fire because Montag had hypnotized had all of them and was somehow trying to harm them--except he's not sure how. Also, he points out that he saw their hands were all bleeding for a reason he can't explain, and everyone else except him was being hypnotized because he wasn't paying attention to Montag when he was staring at the camera, and he was the *only* person lucky enough to be too distracted to pay attention out of nothing but boredom. Not one person questions his absurd and psychotic explanation and everyone considers it the truth, even though no one thought Montag was the killer to begin with and there isn't any evidence whatsoever to back up his explanation.

* Narm:
** Montag utterly fails to be intimidating and he looks like someone's Uncle Ned.
** Honorable mention to Jack's scene as he walks around saying flatly, "Your hand is bleeding. Your hand is bleeding. Wake up. Wake up. Your hand is bleeding". He does pick up a bit when he reaches Frank, but then he takes on the silliest possible accent.