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The Sorcerers

  • 19671967
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 26m
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6.2/10
2.2K
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The Sorcerers (1967)
An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
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An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
2.2K
YOUR RATING
    • Michael Reeves
    • Michael Reeves(screenplay by)
    • Tom Baker(screenplay by)
    • John Burke(from an idea by)
  • Stars
    • Boris Karloff
    • Elizabeth Ercy
    • Ian Ogilvy
    • Michael Reeves
    • Michael Reeves(screenplay by)
    • Tom Baker(screenplay by)
    • John Burke(from an idea by)
  • Stars
    • Boris Karloff
    • Elizabeth Ercy
    • Ian Ogilvy
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 62User reviews
    • 63Critic reviews
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    Boris Karloff in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Boris Karloff and Ian Ogilvy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Boris Karloff and Ian Ogilvy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Elizabeth Ercy, Victor Henry, and Ian Ogilvy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Elizabeth Ercy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Ian Ogilvy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Elizabeth Ercy, Victor Henry, and Ian Ogilvy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Elizabeth Ercy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Elizabeth Ercy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Ian Ogilvy in The Sorcerers (1967)
    Elizabeth Ercy in The Sorcerers (1967)

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    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • Prof. Marcus Monserrat
    Elizabeth Ercy
    Elizabeth Ercy
    • Nicole
    Ian Ogilvy
    Ian Ogilvy
    • Mike Roscoe
    Victor Henry
    • Alan
    Sally Sheridan
    • Laura Ladd
    • (as Dani Sheridan)
    Alf Joint
    Alf Joint
    • Mechanic Ron
    Meier Tzelniker
    • The Jewish Baker
    Gerald Campion
    • Customer in China Shop
    Susan George
    Susan George
    • Audrey Woods
    Ivor Dean
    Ivor Dean
    • Insp. Matalon
    Peter Fraser
    • Detective George
    Martin Terry
    • Tobacconist
    Bill Barnsley
    • Constable in Fur Store
    Maureen Booth
    • Dancer
    • (as Maureen Boothe)
    Catherine Lacey
    Catherine Lacey
    • Estelle Monserrat
    Toni Daly
    • Vocalist
    • (uncredited)
    Arnold L. Miller
    • Taxi Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Silk
    Jack Silk
    • Police Driver
    • (uncredited)
      • Michael Reeves
      • Michael Reeves(screenplay by)
      • Tom Baker(screenplay by)
      • John Burke(from an idea by)
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    • Trivia
      In the scene with the exploding car, the fire apparently got so out of control that the real police and fire brigade were on their way. The film crew had to get the shot and leave in a hurry, as they had not obtained any permission from anyone to shoot the scene.
    • Goofs
      When Mike arrives at Nicole's apartment, she puts a record on the phonograph. Mike sits and looks through a magazine as the song plays. When he leaves, the music has stopped and the phonograph is off with the arm on the rest. Nicole comes in a moment later and the turntable is still moving with the arm in the center of the record.
    • Quotes

      Prof. Marcus Monserrat: From now on, we are going to control your mind.

    • Connections
      Featured in Eurotika!: The Blood Beast: The Films of Michael Reeves (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Your Love
      Sung by Toni Daly

      Played by Lee Grant & The Capitols (as Lee Grant and the Capitols)

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    Tenser and denser than most Brit horror flicks
    Those commenters who have lamented the invisibility of Michael Reeves's second feature will be glad to know it was networked on Britain's biggest channel, BBC1, on 7 January. "The Sorcerers" is one of the movies that makes one feel a fresh evaluation of Tony Tenser's Tigon (and of Amicus, the other little brother of Hammer in the spooky and gory area) is overdue.

    No need to exaggerate the merits of this prentice work by the 23-year-old Great White Forlorn Hope. It has the budget and look of a made-for-television movie (Euston Films, maybe?) and falls somewhere between "Peeping Tom" and "Performance" in its conflation of traditional horror/fantasy and Swinging London elements. The first scene of Karloff sparring with a newsagent recalls Miles Malleson poring over dirty postcards in Michael Powell's masterwork. Ian Ogilvy's eternal triangle in and around a nightclub-- interrupted by the increasingly criminal forays on which he is sent by the mind-controlling Montserrats-- has a touch of James Fox's peregrinations as the hoodlum whose brain is warped by contact with Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg.

    Like Fox, Ogilvy was a public schoolboy (Eton) here convincingly playing rough trade. His junk shop, cheekily named "The Glory Hole", is in Lisson Grove, not far from the infamous Bayswater pad of "Performance". A comparison of Reeves and Donald Cammell as sceptical observers of the Flower Power era might keep a film studies thesis-writer busy.

    However, the film belongs to Karloff and Catherine Lacey, the puppetmasters of mesmerism. Boris, aged 80, is doing his last work in his native land. He is clearly tired and spends most of the runtime sitting or sprawling. He is in his mellow, "Targets" phase: bearded, gaunt, hollow-eyed and lined, that beautifully sepulchral voice still able to veer from sinister implication to moral authority within a few syllables. After a career of kindly spinsters, Miss Lacey must have relished her Grand Guignol, orgasmic turn as the wife who has to dominate her hubby before she can possess a younger male psyche and make Ogilvy into a serial killer.

    Connoisseurs of Britflix will enjoy spotting Gerald Campion, the former Billy Bunter of BBC TV, as a queer customer of The Glory Hole; Susan George, junior sexpot, just 17 and already acting like a hardened good time girl; Meier Tzelniker, stalwart of the Yiddish theatre and singer of "Nausea" in "Expresso Bongo", as a café owner; Alf Joint, veteran stuntman, as the repair shop foreman; and Ivor Dean as the archetypal CID man with belted mac and pipe.
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    • Release date
      • November 1967 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Blaises Club, Imperial Hotel, Kensington, London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Tony Tenser Films
      • Curtwel Productions
      • Global
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    • 1 hour 26 minutes
      • Mono

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