Poor Boris Karloff - star of Universal's monster classics and the films like Bedlam, for Pete's sake! - and poor, poor Catherine Lacey! They play an old couple, an inventor and his wife, who control the mind of the young man and force him to do crimes. OLD people forcing YOUNG man to do crimes!? Yes, that's the plot. This dull-as-dishwater, visually drab and ugly - hello, it is filmed in 1960s! - film is totally destroyed by it's sordid, nasty "message": old people, especially women, are convenient scapegoats when you are caught in the midst of violence and filthy perversions! When a young woman is killed by a young man in leeringly photographed scissors-penetrating-a-body-scene, this sexual murder is not his fault. Hello, how many rapist grannies you know? Zero? Yup, me too. Worst film from grossly overrated Reeves.
Review of The Sorcerers
