The Wizard of Gore. Jeremy Kasten, 2007.
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Edition screened: Dimension DVD, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: Theatrical depiction of eating rats.
Details: As the introduction to a nightly stage show, a ‘geek’ bites the head off a live rat, 12:35-12:55, and again 47:22-47:28.
Kasten’s reinterpretation of Herschell Gordon Lewis’s 1970 film takes the originals’s paper-thin plot and adds heavy style, set design, and costuming notes from Naked Lunch, plus an overarching investigation into personal involvement reminiscent of A Pure Formality. While not an excellent film, Kasten’s Wizard of Gore at least is ambitious, textural, and complex, perhaps excessively so, while still retaining the shock factor that constitutes the entirety of Lewis’s original.