A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
A magician performs a show where he selects a female volunteer and appears to put swords, drills, and such through them. They walk away and everyone applauds, then they show up somewhere else, dead of the same injuries they sustained in the magic show. Police are baffled and can't tie the murders to the magician. A man whose girlfriend is infatuated with the show begins to investigate on his own.
Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Ray Sager was a last minute replacement for the original actor cast as Montag who dropped out of the movie right before shooting started.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
While appearing on Sherry Carson's show, and repeatedly instructing the audience to "Concentrate", Ray Sager obviously says "Croncentrate".
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Quotes
[first lines]
Montag the Magnificent:
[to the theater audience]
I am Montag, master of illusion! The fire of the laws of reason! A magician if you will. But then... what is a magician? A person who tears asunder your rules of logic and crumbles your world of reality so you can go home and say: "Oh what clever tricks he has. What a sly deceiver"... and go to sleep in the security of your own, real world.
[laughs]
Montag the Magnificent:
What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know that at this second you aren't asleep in your beds dreaming that you are here in this theater? Ah, yes... it all seems too real. Well, haven't you ever had a dream that seems so very real... See more »