The Sorcerers(1967) Movie Review

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The Sorcerers is a 1967 horror movie directed by Michael Reeves and starring Ian Ogilvy, Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey and Susan George.

Professor Monserrat(Karloff) is advertising his services as a hypnotist. He has a plan. A man called Michael(Ogilvy) is at a club with his girlfriend, Nicole(Elizabeth Ercy). The professor and his wife, Estelle(Lacey) have a machine and they need a person to test it out. Michael is walking alone when he meets the Professor. They get chatting and Monserrat offers him an experience he will never forget. Michael follows him back to his house. The Professor has a laboratory and he tells Michael that he is a hypnotist and he has a special machine which he uses for his hypnosis. Michael doesn't seem too worried about it. He gets hypnotised and the experiement is a success. The Professor and his wife can control Michael and his thoughts.  The Professor tells him that he will remember nothing about it when he leaves their house.

Michael goes back to the club and is unaware of what has happened. Estelle wants Michael to bring her a fur coat. They concentrate on him and he leaves his girlfriend to bring them the coat. Estelle enjoys controlling him. Michael tells his girlfriend that he thinks he did something bad but he can't remember it. Michael and Nicole go into the country on a motorbike. Estelle makes him speed on the bike. His friend Alan(Victor Henry) is upset because it was his bike. Michael fights with him. He attacks Alan's boss too. He is acting crazy. Nicole is horrifed by his behaviour. Monserrat is not happy with his wife. She is getting carried away. He tells her that he will stop her. She tells him that he can't.

The Professor tells her that he will go to the police and she trips him up and breaks the machine. She hits him. She makes Michael kill a woman. Nicole and Alan read about it in the paper and they become suspicious of Michael. They look for him. The police are closing in on him too. Michael has no memory of doing anything. They talk to him and tell him what happened. Estelle controls him and makes him pull a knife on them. Alan and Michael fight and the police are on the way. He runs off. He drives off. Estelle is losing her grip on him. The Professor tries to get into his mind. He makes Michael crash the car. It explodes and he dies. In the end, the Professor and Estelle are also burned because of their link to Michael.

This was a fun film and I enjoyed it. The cast were good and there was enough to keep me entertained. I would recommend this, I will give it a 5/10.

The Blood Spattered Bride(1972) Movie Review

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The Blood Spattered Bride is a 1972 horror movie directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Simon Andreu and Maribel Martin.

A woman called Susan(Martin) is newly married and she has an awful vision of someone trying to hurt her at a hotel. When they arrive home, Susan meets her husbands(Andreu) staff and a woman called Carol who is the daughter of one of the servants. Susan spots a woman in the woods near the house. She talks to Carol and Carol tells her that there are portraits of women in the cellar. Susan sees a portrait of a woman called Mircala(Alexandra Bastedo). Her husband tells her about Mircala. She killed her husband on the wedding night. They go to her tomb and Susan sees her. She gives Susan a dagger and she bites her neck. Susan screams. Her husband doesn't see anything. Carol tells them she put a dagger under Susan's pillow. She tells them that she got it from a lady in the woods.  Susan wants to leave.

Mircala comes to Susan at night. She shows her where her husband hid the dagger. She wants Susan to murder her husband. Susan has a vision where she kills her husband with Mircala. It seems to be a dream. The doctor comes to see her. He gives her injection to help her. He tells her husband that she is thinking about myths and legends and she shouldn't be. The dagger is hidden in a clock. The husband thinks Carol hid it. She denies it. The husband buries the dagger on the beach. He sees a woman buried in the sand. She is naked. He brings her home.

The woman meets Susan. She says that her name is Carmila. Susan and Carmila have a connection. Susan begins to act strangely. The husband wants to know what is going on. Susan digs up the dagger and she cuts herself. The doctor is called again and the husband hides the dagger and locks it up. He takes the key with him. The doctor recommends that Susan should see a psychiatrist. The husband tells him about Mircala. The groundskeeper tells the doctor that he saw Susan in the woods with Mircala. Susan slips away at night. The doctor follows. He sees the two women. Mircala drinks Susan's blood. She is turning Susan against her husband. The doctor informs the husband. He sees it for himself.  He sees that Carmila is a vampire. She is using Carol to get her things she needs.

Susan tries to get the dagger without the key. She breaks open the drawer where it is and she grabs it. She kills the doctor. Her husband spots her and Mircala dragging the body away. Mircala orders Susan to kill her husband. He runs away and gets to his car and speeds off. Mircala becomes caught in a trap in the woods. Susan kills the gardener. The husband gets a gun and goes after them. He finds them in a coffin and he shoots holes in it. Carol arrives. She is also a vampire. She tells him that the two women will return. He shoots her too. The film ends with a newpaper headline about a a man who cut out the hearts of three women so it seems to hint that he was found guilty of murdering them. 

This was an ususual film with some good scenes. I enjoyed it overall and I would recommend it for fans of vampire movies. I will give it a 5/10.