5. The Wizard Of Gore (1970)
As H G Lewis' horror film career progressed, the nastier his films became and with added gore on top. The Wizard of Gore is not as repellant as The Gore Gore Girls, but I have written about that movie quite a bit so I chose its predecessor which still packs a nasty punch. Basically Montag, a deranged Wizard is performing all sorts of brutal and stomach churning magic tricks on young women - making one swallow a sword, punching through a young woman's guts with an industrial press, sawing one in two and performing major cranial damage on another young woman's head. The women appear to be okay, but later on, after they have left the theatre, they collapse and die of their injuries. A television host called Sherry is intrigued by Montag and wants to get him to appear on her day time chat show (though quite how his gory tricks would be suitable for daytime TV is beyond my comprehension). Montag tries to hypnotise everyone watching into immolating themselves but is foiled at the last minute. Very much a low budget, animal innards caper, The Wizard of Gore lives up to its name and certainly presents a lot of pretty repellant gore. He messes with the audience's head by having Montag continually philosophise on the nature of reality. This just makes the whole film even more weird. I have not watched the remake of The Wizard of Gore. There is no way it could possess the repellant delights of a genuine bona fide H G Lewis movie.