Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Sorcerers (1967)

Allied Artists
Directed by Michael Reeves
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Boris Karloff plays a hypnotist who, along with his wife, "program" a young man to send and receive not only his thoughts, but his feelings to the elderly couple. At first, they take delight in experiencing a midnight swim or motorcycle ride through the country. However, it is the wife, not Karloff, who soon becomes bored and decides to make the boy a thief and eventually a murderer. The far-fetched plot and accompanying unconvincing scientific explanation is offset somewhat by the late 60s swinging London locations and period atmosphere.

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