Director: Jeremy Kasten
Starring: Crispin Glover, Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Brad Dourif, The Suicide Girls
Tagline: "What are you afraid of?"
Random Trivia: The Suicide Girls have an awesome live burlesque show - I've seen it. The Wizard of Gore first appeared in 1970; this is a modernized remake.
This just sort of popped up onto my radar suddenly. No idea what it was, but any movie with Crispin Glover, Brad Dourif, and The Suicide Girls (any number of them) has my attention. Fuck yeah it has my attention.
Disclaimer #1: My apologies for the lame quality screencaps this time out.
Disclaimer #2: I usually hate remakes, but since I know nothing of the original, this is all new to me!
Having no background probably helped on this one - I was thoroughly entertained. Umm plot synopsis? Well, Kip Pardue plays Edmund? Eddie? Ed? A zine/underground newspaper writer/publisher with a nose for the twisted and depraved. Showing up at a fetish event/orgy of sorts one night, he stumbles upon the most completely balls-out, full-tilt, insane mindfuck of a magic show ever: Montag the Magnificent (Glover) slaughters a girl on stage. We're talking entrails ripped clean out, let a bear trap snap shut on her head intense. The audience screams, begins heading for the hills, shit he really killed her - then the lights cut out. And come back. And there's Montag, with the girl, alive and well standing next to him.
Bravo.
Except when the girl shows up dead a few days later. Something that happens again. And again. And again.
Edmund begins following the case, obsessing over the incredible act, and the girls who continually wind up dead - to the point of tailing them. And quickly losing his sanity.
Ok I'm baked to the point that I don't remember much more, beyond vague images/bits and pieces here and there. Except to say that this movie fucking rocked while high, and is on my re-watch pile. Honestly I've seen the Suicide Girls live show which is cool, Crispin Glover rocks, as does Brad Dourif (barely recognizable in a role that isn't a doll or a sniveling worm).
FYI, the tits in this movie are chick-approved - I was asked to include this by my movie watching, baked out of her mind companion.
I'd score this higher but I honestly don't remember half of it...
Overall Rating: Half-Baked (3 out of 5)
