I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Although he never again reached the dizzy 'heights' of his breakthrough Blood Feast (1963), I find myself repeatedly and inexplicably drawn to the seemingly endless works of the 'Godfather of Gore', Herschell Gordon Lewis. The films of Lewis, who sadly passed away just two months ago, continued on a steady decline from the just-about-bearable to the outright unwatchable after bringing blood and guts to the drive-in audience for the first time. Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) was quite fun, and Color Me Blood Red (1965) had its moments, but by the time he reached The Wizard of Gore in 1970, his work had become entirely incoherent and just plain boring.Magician Montag the Magnificent (Ray Sager) entertains disinterested crowds at night, introducing his act by condemning his fellow performers and promising to truly deliver what the audience has come to see. He doesn't merely do the girl-cut-in-two trick, but chainsaws a poor lady in half and then plays around in her guts. Moments later, she is fine, and the audience lap it up. Only a few hours later, the girl drops dead in a restaurant in two pieces. TV personality Sherry Carson (Judy Cler), who frequently attends Montag's show with her boyfriend Jack (Wayne Ratay). longs to get the entertainer on her show. But as more bizarre murders occur, Sherry and Jack feel that the sinister goings-on point straight to Montag.He may not be a magician and he certainly isn't a wizard, but Montag the Magnificent is one hell of a hypnotist. During his many shows, in which Montag murders and dismembers various pretty ladies in a variety of grisly ways (punch press, sword swallowing, knife in the ear, etc.), his audience are placed in a trance as Montag fondles what must have been brought in from the local butchers. As the actual audience watching this mess, we are treated to both the illusion and reality, making for a incredibly confusing and badly- edited watch. The usual Lewis tropes of terrible acting, cheap- looking sets and laughable special effects (see the moment Sager clearly has trouble popping out an eyeball) are all present, but the worst sin of all is that The Wizard of Gore is a massive drag at a whopping 95 minutes. There's gore-a-plenty, but nothing else. And if anybody knows what that ending is about, please let me know.

Hammy magician "Montag the Magnificent" speechifies, then brutally kills and mutilates women on stage. The women magically recover but are later found dead bearing the same wounds as they did during the act. Magic, hypnotism, or copy-cat serial killer? The plot, such as it is, is simply a set up for gore-auteur Herschell Gordon Lewis to stage graphic splatter scenes using animal cadavers for the close-ups. The scenes where Montag rummages around entrails as though he's looking for pearls are more silly than shocking. Some of the sword swallowing scenes are cleverly done, but beyond that, this film doesn't have much to offer beyond a check mark in gore-fans' life lists. If you are looking to introduce yourself to HGL's canon of bloody schlock, watch "Two Thousand Maniacs!" instead.

My first experience with this film was the scene in Juno when she came across the tape in her baby's future adoptive father's collection. The scene that the film showed was none other than the world class Punch Press Trick. Something about the scene, with all the blood and retro early 1970's grainy film, made it stick in my mind for years after until I finally decided to watch it just recently. It centered around Montag the Magnificent, a magician whose dark powers was the top of their time. While the audience views a clean, harmless illusion, Montag slaughters his pretty female with immense gusto. Yet after the trick, they hop up alive and well. That is, until they show up dead only a few hours later. Meanwhile, a female talk show host tries to get him on her show, unaware of the trick he has prepared for her. It was strange, very strange. All the gory, violent scenes were hazy nightmares filmed on stock that made it look as if I was watching it through a millimeter thin sheet of red tissue paper. Even the scenes in between, dealing with our plucky (some would say pesky) heroine and her obsession with Montag had a certain surreal feel to them that bled over from the stage acts like blood leaking from the attic. Even its flaws, operatically bad acting, blatant plot holes that make Inception make sense, seem to work for this movie. By the end of it all, you feel as if you're waking up. You aren't sure what you just saw, but you know that it's in your head now, probably for good.

While its strange, mystical sense of suspense aids it, this movie is pretty mediocre in all other aspects, and yet I still find myself enjoying it. It's got terrible acting, bad picture quality and shaky, flawed transitions between scenes (and even stranger ones when it tries to demonstrate the Wizard's "power"), but it's still enjoyable. I wouldn't call this a horror movie so much as a strange combination of fantasy and gore, but it fits my Halloween bill well enough. The Wizard of Gore doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then, like Phantasm, it isn't really supposed to.There is a 2007 remake of this around, and I might just be inclined to check it out, to see what modern film-making could do for this little gem...