The Sorcerers

There will be inevitable comparisons to The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General(from the same director), from personal opinion Witchfinder General is the better film, technically and dramatically but The Sorcerers is the more entertaining one, Witchfinder is very shocking even now(easy to see why it was banned at the time) and while both have great atmosphere The Sorcerers a little more so. The Sorcerers is not the perfect film, but you don't really expect that, the first 10 minutes did come across as gaudy and trashy which will put put anybody off, while Estelle's descent into madness could have taken longer to develop and been less abrupt and the script-while mostly solid- can have a tendency to be turgid and overly silly.

In London, the merchant Mike Roscoe (Ian Ogilvy) and his girlfriend Nicole (Elizabeth Ercy) go to a nightclub to dance. When they meet their friend Alan (Victor Henry), he dances with Nicole while Mike goes to a nearby bar.

Let me explain. This begins with an interesting idea to build on, but it gets in it's own way and barely achieves average.

1967's "The Sorcerers" was the third of four directorial credits for the ill fated Michael Reeves (dead in 1969 from a drug overdose), not as good as his final effort with Vincent Price, "Witchfinder General," but certainly an improvement on Christopher Lee's "The Castle of the Living Dead" or Barbara Steele's "The She Beast." Producer Tony Tenser joined with Patrick Curtis (then husband of Raquel Welch) to help finance this unjustly neglected offering, boasting the star power of Boris Karloff, still commanding top billing in low budget titles at age 79.

Married couple and hypnotists Karloff and Lacey control the mind and actions of young Ogilvy and the wife, after years of pent up frustration and anger, starts indulging her psychopathic tendencies through the young man. Surprisingly effective thriller.

An elderly couple (Boris Karloff and Catherine Lacey) have invented a hypnosis machine in their parlour. As an experiment they invite a young man (Ian Ogilvy) to try it out for them.

A Tigon film from 1967 regarding Marcus, a doctor (played by Boris Karloff) who practices hypnosis. His wife Estelle is also part of his practice as they search for a suitable subject for their experiments.

A decent low-budget horror-thriller given extra class by the presence of Boris Karloff and Catherine Lacey.Future Saint actor Ian Ogilvy is hypnotised and brainwashed by the above elderly couple into committing increasingly violent acts,as Miss Lacey gradually succumbs to megalomania and madness,while a gentle,stable-minded Boris is left helpless in stopping his wife's crazy actions.

Mike takes his girlfriend who is a a plank of wood from France called Nicole and his mate who looks old enough to be his dad to a disco . For reasons necessary for the plot he decides to disappear to a cafe where he's approached by a mad scientist and mayhem happens THE SORCERERS is a ridiculous movie lacking any type of logic and is very silly .