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A whorehouse, circa late 19th/early 20th century: An eccentricly
dressed, weird and confused looking man (Tommy King) stumbles through the
best prostitutes of the house, throwing insults left and right, until he
finds "the girl" (Kelly Ames), the one prostitute who looks
innocent enough you'd actually want her as your girlfriend. He invites her
to his apartment, but she hesitates since a colleague of hers, Alice, has
disappeared only a few days ago ... but the combination of the man's
rather shy behaviour and the lure of his money make her give in to his
request all too soon. In his apartment that's filled to the brim with
occult stuff, the man starts to act weirder and weirder, at least in the
girl's point of view: He seems to be immune to her charms, instead starts
rambling on about magic, his favourite magician Marvello, and his
intention to fill the master's boots. It all culminates in him showing her
a simple magic trick involving a disappearing egg - which he messes up
royally. Then he reveals his real intentions: He wants her as his
assistant in his upcoming magic show, the girl who gets in a box which he
then pierces with swords. Seeing how the other magic trick hasn't worked
out, the girl turns him down, but he won't accept no for an answer. While
trying to get away, the girl bumps into a wardrobe door, which then slides
open to reveal the sawed-in-half corpse of the girl's friend Alice. Now
the man knows he cannot let her go, but the girl throws a lucky punch and
knocks him out. When the man comes to he finds himself in the box,
surrounded by the girl and his hooker friends. They have decided to saw
his box (with him in it) in half - which is bad news, because there is no
such thing as magic ... Sure, this film is predictable as hell,
and it uses every cliché in the book to create the proper atmosphere,
from constant thunder and lightning in the background to old fashioned
fake occult props to a villainously sneering, wildly overacting Tommy King
- and it all works out just beautifully, resulting in a real fun macabre
short comedy that doesn't get boring for even a minute. Recommended!
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