Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Prichards12345 It's a tragedy that Director Reeves took his own life. Both his British horror movies show a film-maker of real talent, with a keen eye for composition and who is not afraid to show the grim, bloody reality of violence. What Reeves might have achieved had he lived can only be speculated upon.The Sorcerors, of course, gives Boris Karloff a great late-career role as a scientist who discovers a process to help him experience other people's sensations and feelings as if he were the person himself. Altruistically thinking of how old and infirm people could again experience a full life he sets up trend-setter Ian Ogilvy for his first experiment. Unfortunately he hasn't counted on the less than scientific attitude of his wife.Catherine Lacey is splendidly evil as Karloff's spouse, growing evermore addicted to the sensations she experiences. She soon learns to control their subject, and her husband appears powerless to stop her.Reeve's school friend Olgilvy is excellent in the central role as Mike - a difficult part to pull off but he handles it with aplomb. The film is really a clever comment on the generation gap - something that was the cause of real concern in the 60s - but despite its very low budget it never fails to convince and occasionally even thrill. The Sorcerors is well worth a view. Then follow it with the even better (and much bloodier) Witchfinder General...

Jonathon Dabell The Sorcerers offers horror icon Boris Karloff one of the last truly worthwhile roles of his career. It is one of only three films to be directed by young film-maker Michael Reeves. Film buffs are forever declaring what great things Reeves would have gone on to achieve had he lived longer. Whether these claims of unfulfilled greatness are accurate or not no-one will ever truly know. It is fair to say that his last film, the sublime Witchfinder General, is unquestionably a genre classic, indicating that this young director certainly possessed the potential to become a major force. His second film The Sorcerers is another rather interesting and well-made chiller which shows plenty of early promise. Combining elements of sci-fi and the serial-killer genre, The Sorcerers is an unusual and effective entry from Tigon. Although it has not dated as well as some films from its era, it remains fascinating for a number of reasons – its strong performances, disorientating camera angles and scoring, infrequent but savage violence, and its apparent suggestion that society's drink 'n' drug-fuelled hedonists are potential serial killers-in-waiting. In spite of occasional flaws, The Sorcerers is a film well worth checking out.A former practitioner of medical hypnosis, Professor Marcus Monserrat (Karloff), now lives in disgrace in a grotty corner of London, sharing a shabby apartment with his wife Estelle (Catherine Lacey). They have built a machine which can induce powerful telepathic hypnosis upon anyone who uses it, giving the Monserrats the ability to control the hypnotised person's mind and, more remarkably, experience whatever sensations they are feeling as if they were their own. All they need now is a young guinea pig willing to submit himself to their mind control experiment. Enter Mike Roscoe (Ian Ogilvy), a handsome but bored youth who has grown dissatisfied with a life of disco, drink and dating hot chicks. He wants something new to inject excitement back into his life and Professor Monserrat's hypnosis machine looks just the ticket. Unfortunately, after Mike has been successfully brought under the control of the good professor and his wife, things begin to take a sinister turn. Drunk on power and unable to resist the intoxicating thrill of controlling someone else's actions, Estelle starts telepathically manoeuvring Mike into darkly dangerous situations, encouraging him to commit escalating crimes, ranging from burglary and assault… to murder.The film cleverly de-romanticises the usual perception of London in the Swinging Sixties, showing a darker place where frustration and cruelty bubble beneath the surface. Karloff gives a solid performance as the frail, well-meaning professor who cannot see the potential for evil in his invention; Lacey is great too as his dangerously unhinged wife. It's often been said that Estelle's descent into psychotic madness is too sudden and complete to be a wholly convincing plot development - a criticism that carries much truth in all fairness - but nevertheless the actress gives a splendidly full-bodied performance as the film's main villain. The way Karloff's character is the more sympathetic and agreeable of the two acts as a nice little twist on expectations too. Overall, The Sorcerers is a solid cult chiller – skilfully-made, thought-provoking and entertaining fare from a young film-maker whose light went out too soon.

Spikeopath The Sorcerers is directed by Michael Reeves who also co-writes the screenplay with Tom Baker from an original idea written by John Burke. It stars Boris Karloff, Ian Ogilvy, Catherine Lacey, Victor Henry and Elizabeth Ercy. Music is by Paul Ferris and cinematography by Stanley A. Long.When aged scientist Marcus Monserrat (Karloff) tries a new hypnosis machine on bored young man Mike Roscoe (Ogilvy), he and his wife find they can control his actions and experience what he is experiencing. Initially this breakthrough is a rewarding one, but Marcus' wife Estelle (Lacey) wants more and soon things start to get decidedly amoral.Michael Reeves sadly died of an accidental drug overdose aged just 25, this having crafted the Cruel Britania brilliance that was Witchfinder General. Prior to that he helmed The Sorcerers, an equally great production, a sci-fi horror fusion that pulses with a pessimistic tone. There's no great budget for the talented young director to work with, but it barely matters, in fact it benefits the film greatly, as the two elders (Karloff wonderful, Lacey magnificent) live vicariously through Roscoe's (Ogilvy fresh faced and perfectly exuding a bored man after further thrills) misadventures. But the kicker here is that it is Karloff's scientist who recognises things are going out of control, and it is he who strives to stop his obsessed wife from committing heinous acts.Set to the backdrop of swinging sixties London, with mini skirts, Brit pop music and Norton motorbikes firm period reminders, The Sorcerers captures the zeitgeist of the time. Blending psychedelia with sci-fi and amoral horror with wistful yearnings, film comes out as an original piece of work. Thematically, as has been noted by the critics who have afforded this under seen classic some time, it says youth is wasted on the young while also planting us the film viewer in the metaphor chair. If Reeves was being caustic we will never know, sadly, but it does bear thinking about in light of how horror films, and their blood thirsty fans, would evolve come the millennium. Michael Reeves a visionary?From Lacey bringing one of horror's forgotten monsters to life, to a no cop out ending of pure bleakness, The Sorcerers never lets up on gnawing away at the senses. An original film made by an original director, and deserving of more widespread exposure. 8/10

minamurray Sorcerers, (1967) is overrated British horror movie directed and co-written by overrated Michael Reeves, director who died young. Old scientist (Boris Karloff) and his wife Estelle (Catherine Lacey) use device he has created to control young man (Ian Ogilvy) and enjoy life through him, but soon evil Estelle is forcing the poor young man to the path of crimes... or perhaps young man just explores his real desires of sexual violence? This is drab and dull movie, very cheap-looking, and it is possible to see slimy hypocrisy in the proceedings: Estelle's real crime is to be old and not sexually desirable in the sleazy pornographic world of leering young film-makers and squalid film critics.