Rating: 2.5/5
Cult Movie Challenge 2016 | 38/52 / HG Lewis
Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know that at this second, you're not asleep in your bed, dreaming you are here in this theater?
Montag the Magnificent performs death-defying magic on unwitting volunteers. But later, they die in manners similar to the trick performed onstage — beheadings, impalements, bisection, and whatnot.
The film comments on how movies “give you the luxury of grisly dismemberments and deaths without anyone getting harmed.”
The gore in the movie is still nauseating — using actual animal guts is a surefire method.
The movie is a novelty for horror fans, but it doesn’t do enough for me to feel anything more than appreciation. The filmmakers made a competent and (mostly) coherent film — a rare W for Lewis.