Professor Montserrat invents a machine that allows user to control the mind of other. When he and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Rosco, little does he know his wife will soon get addicted to the machine...
22 September 1927, Hertfordshire, England, UK
20 July 1944, Dresden, Germany
30 September 1943, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
23 November 1887, Camberwell, London, England, UK
30 July 1943, Leeds, England, UK
26 July 1950, Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK
21 December 1917, London, England, UK
23 April 1921, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
1 January 1894, Hotin-Bassarabia, Romania
6 May 1904, Paddington, London, England, UK
1947
January 01, 2013
A gem that has gone under the radar and deserves more attention.
February 09, 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.
May 24, 2003
Reeves' finest moment was to come with Witchfinder General -- and the leap is enormous -- yet The Sorcerers is better than a mere curiosity piece.
March 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.
October 19, 2016
A subtly menacing film given the proper atmosphere by the mere appearance of Karloff.
May 17, 2010
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.
July 31, 2008
The basic concept is ludicrous, but the execution is terrific.
August 07, 2012
Michael Reeves's heady excoriation of voyeurism
December 07, 2012
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.
December 30, 2006
Enjoy it as a simple horror film. Don't try and make it more than that.
October 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.
