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The Sorcerers

Play trailer Poster for The Sorcerers 1967,  1h 27m,  Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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A professor (Boris Karloff) and his wife (Catherine Lacey) can feel the sensations of a mod British teen (Ian Ogilvy) whose mind they control.

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Variety Staff Variety Mar 26, 2009
Boris Karloff brings his familiar adroit horror touch to the role of an aging somewhat nutty ex-stage mesmerist who aims to complete his experiments by dominating the brain of a young subject. Go to Full Review
Alan Morrison Empire Magazine Dec 30, 2006
3/5
Enjoy it as a simple horror film. Don't try and make it more than that. Go to Full Review
Lizzie Francke Time Out Feb 9, 2006
As the Monserrats play audience to their victims' living scenarios, which the couple write to their own perverse specifications, this psychedelic horror film deals with the apparatus of cinema, and it still puts the mind in a spin. Go to Full Review
MFB Critics Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 19, 2016
It is the overall effect that impresses rather than any individual scene or composition, but the "psychedelic experience" is particularly well done, with the victim's face literally disintegrating in blobs of colour. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 1, 2013
A
A gem that has gone under the radar and deserves more attention. Go to Full Review
John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Dec 7, 2012
3/4
Karloff's mind-control process is analogous to cinema itself: an experience that allows people to embrace second-hand sensation, 'to do things' vicariously -- the more brutal and shocking the better, as in the case of some horror movies. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Michael Reeves

Director

Boris Karloff

Prof. Marcus Monserrat

Catherine Lacy

Estelle Monserrat

Ian Ogilvy

Mike Roscoe

Elizabeth Ercy

Nicole

Victor Henry

Alan

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The Sorcerers

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Movie Info

Synopsis A professor (Boris Karloff) and his wife (Catherine Lacey) can feel the sensations of a mod British teen (Ian Ogilvy) whose mind they control.
Director
Michael Reeves
Producer
Patrick Curtis, Tony Tenser
Screenwriter
Michael Reeves, Tom Baker
Production Co
Tigon Pictures
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 11, 2017
Runtime
1h 27m
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