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[BD Review] ‘The Sorcerers’ is a Forgotten Classic

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Posted by David Harley on November 08, 2012 @ 2:20pm
Category: Movies / Reviews

Review by Steve Urena

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to occupy the brain of another human being and feel the thoughts, emotions, and senses, of that person? Would you make that person do things you have always wanted to do without any consequences? If so then The Sorcerers is a horror movie that would definitely pique your curiosity. Starring the legendary Boris Karloff, The Sorcerers dives into the subject of hypnotism and the animalistic nature that comes out of people that have access to great power.

The movie begins with a first look at the washed up and disgraced hypnotist Marcus Monserrat (Karloff). Monserrat and his elderly wife Estelle (Catherine Lacey) live in London and have seen better days. Both are ailing physically and are living their final days in poverty. The couple is uninterested with life as they have lost their willingness to live. The couple makes small talk with one another, but it is evident that they are bored. Monserrat makes one last ditch effort to save the marriage and their lives by creating a machine that places both Marcus and Estelle into the brain of an also bored to death youngster Mike Roscoe (Ian Oglevy).

Once the couple is linked to Mike, they get to feel his every thought, feeling, and sensation. It becomes like a drug to the couple who get to relive their youth through Mike. Shortly thereafter, they learn that with great concentration, they can also control Mike and his every move as well. This leads to the thrills being even bigger. They force Mike to speed on his motorcycle at breakneck speeds and get him to kill another human being. Once the kill is completed, Estelle gets a taste for murder and begins to go on a spree of her own. Marcus tries to stop her but is thwarted by his significant other. The spree continues and Estelle becomes a true force to be reckoned with, killing young girls in Mike’s life. Marcus finally gets a hold of the mental link and ends the movie by making Mike crash his car, ending the movie and the murderous rampage of Estelle.

This movie is another forgotten classic and should be seen by horror aficionados and Boris Karloff fans. Catherine Lacey’s role as Estelle is awesome and she does a great job of portraying her role as a power hungry wife with nothing to lose. The themes of voyeurism, isolation, and the true nature of people is an excellent way to tell this story. I recommend this movie to others and hope people take the time to look for it and check it out.

El Camino de los espantos

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on December 28, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Torture Garden

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on December 27, 1967 @ 12:00am
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A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to the showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. The skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they’re hiding.

The Deadly Organ or ‘Placer sangriento’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on November 22, 1967 @ 12:00am
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A masked killer prowls the beaches of Argentina, injecting beautiful girls with heroin, and then using weird organ music to make them his zombie slaves.

Quatermass and the Pit

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on November 19, 1967 @ 12:00am
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An ancient Martian spaceship is unearthed in London, and proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around

Five Million Years to Earth or ‘Quatermass and the Pit’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on November 09, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded German bomb from World War II. Missile expert Colonel Breen is brought in to investigate, accompanied by Professor Bernard Quartermass. When the interior of the “missile” is exposed, a dead locust-like creature that resembles the devil is found. It is determined by Quartermass that these “locusts” are evil Martians who altered the brains of our simian ancestors to eventually lay claim to the Earth. When Quartermass’s suspicion that the missile can reactivate the dormant evil in humans is confirmed, all hell breaks loose.

The Sorcerers

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on October 31, 1967 @ 12:00am
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The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Roscoe, and enjoy ‘being’ the younger man. But Estelle soon grows to love the power of controlling Roscoe, and the vicarious pleasures that provides. How far will she go, and can the Professor restrain her in time?

El Imperio de Dracula

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on October 27, 1967 @ 12:00am
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A group of beautiful female vampires lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.

Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel or ‘The Blood Demon’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on October 05, 1967 @ 12:00am
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In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.

Love Camp 7

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on October 04, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Set in a Nazi “Love Camp” that services the needs of front line officers. The video packaging claims that this film is based on fact, but the plot is so far fetched you would have a hard time believing that. Two young WAC officers go undercover as POW’s in the prison camp hoping to get some information from a scientist that’s being held there, before being sprung out by the French resistance. Unfortunately things go wrong with the break out and they end up overstaying their welcome and being subjected to the same indignities as the other inmates.

Tenamonya yurei dochu or ‘Tenamonya Voyagers’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on September 02, 1967 @ 12:00am
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New teacher Ayako and high school student Wakana are in the same boat — their school has suddenly closed down, leaving them stranded. Now they have to make the arduous trek back to Earth from the furthest reaches of space. And to make matters worse, they’re completely broke.

However, when the enigmatic Paraila drops in, their situation changes. Now, they have direction. They have a plan. They can make it back to Earth.

Or can they? It seems that Paraila is a wanted criminal, and her methods, while usually effective, are often less than legal. Now pursued by an obsessed police woman, these three girls are in a race to get to Earth.

Berserk!

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 31, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Monica Rivers (Joan Crawford), is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus and who’ll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires high-wire walker Frank Hawkins (Ty Hardin), impressed by the handsome and muscular young man. They begin an affair which arouses her previous lover Durando’s (Michael Gough) jealousy. When Durando is found dead shortly afterward, the other performers begin to take alarm, as a mysterious killer is obviously loose in their midst. Many suspect Monica herself of the killings, especially Matilda (Diana Dors), who has set her sights on Monica’s new lover. At this point, Monica’s unruly, sixteen-year-old daughter Angela (Judy Geeson), is expelled from school for being incorrigible and Monica is forced to take her into the circus, allowing her to become the partner of knife-thrower Gustavo (Peter Burton). Meanwhile, the dead bodies continue to pile up…

The Gruesome Twosome

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 28, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Mrs. Pringle and her son Rodney run a wig store which they stock by scalping young coeds who show up to look at the “room for rent.” Meanwhile at the local college, Kathy is determined to figure out who is killing her classmates, much to boyfriend Dave’s irritation. When her friend Dawn disappears, Kathy gets closer to the truth as she begins investigating the Pringle’s lair.

Kiss and Kill or ‘Feng liu tie han’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 19, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Taekoesu Yonggary

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 13, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.

A Taste of Blood

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on August 09, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Mild-mannered Miami businessman, John Stone, receives a parcel from England containing two old bottles of Slivovitz brandy and upon drinking them both, becomes a vampire. Stone uses his newfound vampire powers to keep his wife, Helena, in a trance as he travels to England to kill the desdenents of Van Helsing whom murdered Count Dracula while Hesling’s distant relative, Howard Helsing, persues Stone with the intent to put the re-born vampire to rest for good.

Dugyeonsae uneun sayeon

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on July 28, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Ok-hwa dies of a broken heart after she is forbidden to marry above her class. Her ghost haunts her former lover making his life, and the life of his new bride, unbearable.

Mundo depravados

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on July 26, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Two police detectives are assigned to investigate the murders of several young women at a health club.

Francis in the Haunted House

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on July 20, 1967 @ 12:00am
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The Spirit Is Willing

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on June 30, 1967 @ 12:00am
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When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. Another of ‘exploitation king’ William Castle’s supernatural films, this one is studded with familiar character actors including Harvey Lembeck, Mary Wickes, John McGiver, Doodles Weaver, Jesse White and John (“Gomez Addams”) Astin.

The Shuttered Room or ‘Blood Island’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on June 27, 1967 @ 12:00am
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A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.

Succubus

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on May 31, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60′s landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on May 25, 1967 @ 12:00am
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In his remote Asian hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, as the first step in his plan to become leader of the world’s most terrible criminals.

Se sei vivo spara or ‘Django Kill’

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on May 03, 1967 @ 12:00am
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Mexican outlaw Django is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. Django is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.