The Wizard of Gore, Internal Organs Fly at You

Herschell Gordon Lewis is affectionately known to us as 'The Godfather of Gore.' Well, today we take a look at The Godfather of Gore's magnum opus...1970's "The Wizard of Gore." Low-budget, drive-in, gore-fest...in other words...horror Nirvana! Be warned...nothing is implied in this one. Intestines...kidneys...livers...severed tongues...stomachs will be ripped out and thrown at you in an elongated fashion. Watch if you dare. The victims? Beautiful women all with amazing legs...perhaps a fetish of Mr. Lewis.

Montag the Magnificent (Ray Sager) has quite a magic act. As the film begins we see him decapitated by a guillotine as his jugular keeps pumping blood after the head is severed. It gets better. A beautiful woman (Karin Alexana) volunteers (or does she?) to be sawed in half. With a chainsaw Montag cuts her in half. We see her abdomen opened and Montag pull out her organs. Uh oh...the audience sees something quite different. As the audience appears to see the beauty survive and walk off stage. Later in a restaurant, the woman is found gutted in her booth. We'll also see another beauty (Corinne Kirkin) get a spike through her head and Montag will pull out her brains. Same result...audience sees her survive and later this lady is found dead with a spike through her head.

Enter the sultry TV host Sherri (Judy Cler) and her sportswriter beau Jack (Wayne Ratay). Sherri wants Montag on her show but Jack is suspicious. After several beautiful women who volunteered for Montag's act are found gutted, Jack gets the cops involved. The problem...so many witnesses saw the ladies leave the theater intact. Jack and Sherri will have a lot of pre-marital sex, but will get back to investigating Montag. As the day comes when Montag agrees to do an illusion on Sherri's TV show, we gather Sherri may be the next babe gutted or pulled apart.

How is Montag getting away with murder? Why doesn't the audience see the carnage that is occurring? Will the nubile and leggy Sherri be Montag's next victim? This is a gory one as I have left out some of the gorier kills. Ah the beautiful die quite horribly and we hope that Sherri can prevail. The ending is wild...quite gory...and very ambitious. For a drive-in classic that will have many of you averting your eyes, enjoy "The Wizard of Gore."