2007 · mystery · horror
The Wizard of Gore
Directed by Jeremy Kasten1h 34m2007
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
Our read: The Wizard of Gore (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal mystery · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme mystery / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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