Product: Magic [VHS] (1978)
Rating: 5.0
You will believe in MAGIC
I remember as a boy wanting to see this movie, (honestly thinking that i would see an entertaining movie about a man and his puppet, man did i love the muppets as a kid) my father warned me that it might not be what i was hoping for (how right he was). I have waited years for this movie to come out on DVD to once again experience a movie unlike any i can remember seeing as a child (or any point thereafter, in my life).If you're anything like me and miss the horror of the 70's and 80's, this movie might well be one for your collection, in fact it always bothered me that it never earned a place in the annals of the great horror of that period. And now that i think of it, the movie might better be described as a traumatic drama.The best way i can describe it is if you can imagine Jack Nicholson from The SHINING with a puppet (think for a second of what would gradually ensue). This movie is the sad and gradual plummet regarding a shell of a man tortured by his own inadequacies and just a hint of paranoid schizophrenia. Ill admit there are bizarre moments where one is left to question where the man ends and the puppet begins and which one is really pulling the strings.For those of you not up on horror and are more in line with lets say Batman, if you know the villain Scarface (a pathetic ventriloquist, with a split personality, run by the more dominant criminal personality found in his puppet) Imagine if a movie was made solely on that concept, save for the fact that the puppet isn't so much a criminal mastermind as murderous sociopath.The viewer watches wanting desperately to believe that there is hope for Corky (Sir Anthony Hopkins, which i will quickly add not only gave one of his first cinematic performances in this movie, but arguably one of his best since the LAMBS SERIES) but the viewer is soon left to discover............you know what better i not tell you (this is simply a movie that has to be watched, and i promise if watched with another you will be discussing it for hours).One of the worst parts of growing up is becoming a cynic, losing your innocence and realizing the things you once believed in really aren't for real (i.e. Santa and the tooth fairy). Well for those of you looking to regain a loss piece of your childhood, when this movie comes out in April 2006, (do like i will) rent it or buy it, turn out the lights and watch, you will believe in magic again (i promise you).