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The Sorcerers (1967)

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Made by the then 23-year-old director Michael Reeves, who died after making only one more movie, the notable Witchfinder General (1968), this is an unusual horror film concerning an elderly couple who conduct experiments with mind control, hoping to experience the lost excitements of youth through their subject, a young man whom they have persuaded to become a guinea-pig in the name of science. Once the process has begun however, a conflict ensues between the couple, the woman urging their

Unrated, 1 hr. 27 min.

Horror

Michael Reeves, Tom Baker

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All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (0) | DVD (5)

The Sorcerers interrogates the swinging sixties morality of 'pleasure with no consequences', prefiguring the way the hippy dream turned sour at the end of the decade.

May 17, 2010 Full Review Source: SFX Magazine | Comment
SFX Magazine

The basic concept is ludicrous, but the execution is terrific.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid
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An entertaining 60s British horror set in swinging London. Boris Karloff, in one of his last roles, plays Professor Montserrat who has developed a new technique of mind control and now only needs a bored young man to test it on. Enter Mike Roscoe, played by Ian Ogilvy. After the Professor and his wife hook Mike up to

October 8, 2008
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