Amateur journalist Edmund Bigelow (Kip Pardue) becomes obsessed with the gruesome onstage magic of Montag the Magnificent (Crispin Glover), who seems to violently murder his female volunteers before the audience's very eyes. It's all an act, of course, until Bigelow discovers that the women are turning up dead -- days later -- from their supposedly illusionary wounds. Jeremy Kasten directs this creepy remake of the 1970 original.
Never saw the original from the 70's, but the remake was less than a stellar movie on it's own merit. Choppy and confusing, poorly edited and directed, and just not a very interesting movie. There are too many questions that are left to your imagination and those that are answered are not all that clear. Tried to be too clever, but never lived up to it's potential. The acting was very good and at times intense, but the movie never pulled me in. Concerns a magician (Crispin Glover) and a reporter (Kip Pardue) who is doing a story on the show. The "volunteers" from the audience are showing up dead a day after the show and dying from the same type "wounds" they recieced from the show. Poorly done movie and not worth the time. 2 stars 9/04/08
- frgodbeyjr
This movie looked good and was well done, but the one scene was just done over and over (trying to out due the previous). It got tiring.
- T-Bone