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H. G. Lewis -- not to be confused with Wells -- is the director known for such heart-warming classics as Boin-n-g, She-Devils on Wheels and The Gore Gore Girls. Another one of his creations, The Wizard of Gore, has been re-made by Jeremy Kasten, as Scott Weinberg shared last May. Kasten's last horror film, The Thirst, starred Matt Keeslar, Jeremy Sisto and a melange of Joss Whedon compatriots, whereas this taste of gore is featuring a whole mess of Suicide Girls (because no one seems to care about their names), Kip Pardue, Bjiou Phillips and Crispin Glover.

FilmIck gave a heads-up on Friday about the flick's website, which is now up and running. But be warned: There are Suicide Girls, which means nudity, and the trailer automatically plays when you open the page -- so, NSFW. However, when you're nestled in an appropriate location with your computer, you can see Crispin creep across the screen slicing into random women and men, Kip looking completely ridiculous in a noir detective get-up and Bijou looking like ... well, Bijou. The premise might not sound like anything, but this is a role made for Glover, and he really runs with it.

In case you're wondering what the hell it's about -- Glover plays Montag the Magnificent, a magician whose magic looks like murder -- he basically slices and dices into his helpful assistants. Everyone is disgusted, he's popular, and Edmund Bigelow (Pardue) seems to think its great until the bodies of Montag's on-stage "victims" start to appear, and the hunt for the killer begins. (Is it really someone other than the magician?)

Usually when we talk about the current wave of horror remakes, the conversation has to do with well-known titles like Dawn of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or The Omen, but the guys over at Open Sky Entertainment decided to set their sights on a lesser-known piece of low-budget genre cheese. This explains why we'll soon be seeing a remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis' 1970 grindhouse semi-classic The Wizard of Gore. Well, maybe you won't be seeing it, but I know I will be.

Written by first-timer Zach Chassler and directed by Jeremy Kasten (All Souls Day, The Attic Expeditions), the new-fangled Wizard of Gore was barely on my radar screen before the Bloody Disgusting gang reminded me that the flick was almost finished ... and get this cast: Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover, Brad Dourif, and Jeffrey Combs! Not too shabby!

The original flick had to do with a malevolent mind-controlling magician who could compel his subjects to do truly nasty things onstage ... and I'm guessing the remake will stick close to that concept. (Yes, Mr. Glover is playing the maniacal magician, and you just know that's gotta be worth the rental fee.) No release date has been announced just yet, but BD.com snagged a pretty slick poster off of IMDb, so go on and give it a look-see.

Incidentally, another H.G. Lewis remake just hit the DVD shelves recently; Tim Sullivan's 2001 Maniacs is, of course, a remake of the old-school splatter king's 2000 Maniacs -- only with one extra maniac.