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User review rating: 5 July 23, 2021

Exploitation pioneer and "Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis brings us one of his most outrageous outings with "The Wizard of Gore". This mixes Lewis's usual Gore with some inexplicable metaphysical gymnastics. Sort of a poverty row David Lynch before the fact. Lewis was an interesting filmmaker. He made no bones about being an artist. He was a businessmen who shot his films fast, cheap, down and dirty for the quick buck on the grindhouse and drive-in market. His films were technically ragged and featured often atrocious acting. Lewis dabbled in many genres: horror, roughies, nudie-cuties, biker films, salacious topical dramas, even kid's movies. But he is notorious for inventing the splatter movie with 1963's "Blood Feast", which he followed up with a series of modest but stomach-churning gore epics. "The Wizard of Gore" was, for a while, Lewis's penultimate gore film (Lewis left the film business in the early 1970s and made a late life return to filmmaking in the early 21st century.) Frequent Lewis collaborator Ray Sager is suitably over-the-top as the title wizard Montag, a role he filled in for after the original actor cast went crazy and left production. Judy Cler is fine as Sherry Carson, a television hostess who enters Montag's lethal orbit. Wayne Ratay is terrible as Jack Ward, Sherry's boyfriend. Ratay's line delivery is quite whiny, and his character comes off as unlikable and annoying. You have to wonder why attractive and successful Sherry is with this idiot. Ratay was a salesman who wanted to be an actor really badly. He got his wish. He got to act and did it badly. If you're the kind of person that would appreciate Lewis's work, you're probably already a fan of his. Few can get on Lewis's wavelength. Film critic Joe Bob Briggs stated that "if you're watching a Herschell Gordon Lewis film, you're watching it because it's a Herschell Gordon Lewis

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