The Sorcerers (1967)
6/10
Entertaining For The Wrong Reasons
7 January 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Mike takes his girlfriend who is a a plank of wood from France called Nicole and his mate who looks old enough to be his dad to a disco . For reasons necessary for the plot he decides to disappear to a cafe where he's approached by a mad scientist and mayhem happens

THE SORCERERS is a ridiculous movie lacking any type of logic and is very silly . Look at the scene where Mike is approached in the cafe by Professor Boris Karloff . Chaps if a 70 year old man approached you and said he wanted to give you a new experience would you go back to his flat or would you call a policeman ? Yeah that's what I thought

It turns out the Prof has a device that allows him and his wife to see , hear and feel everything Mike does . You can see where this is heading , it's a voyuers dream come true , but strangely the professor and his wife don't tune in when Mike is having sex with Nicole possibly because they're scared of getting splinters . They can also control Mike's actions which leads to the professor's wife becoming a sadistic maniac making Mike go on a killing spree . That's the bit I don't understand ( Well one of the bits - This movie lacks logic ) if the mad couple experience everything the sweet faced angelic looking Mike does would they want to see him spend the rest of his life in prison with a couple of hardened cellmates called Vinnie and Winston ? of course since they experience what happens to Mike in a physical sense you just know there won't be a happy ending and there isn't

I wouldn't say THE SORCERERS is an awful film but it is incredibly silly and because of this there is some entertainment value for people who have a soft spot for corny Brit horror movies from the late 60s / early 70s
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