Anthony Hopkins is at his absolute best in this riveting drama about a ventriloquist, Charles “Corky” Withers, whose dummy (“Fats”) appears to take him over. It cleverly walks a tightrope between a psychological thriller and a horror film. Is it all in the ventriloquist’s mind? Or is there a genuinely supernatural element, with the dummy actually coming to life? That question is eventually answered but not before you’ve been put through a terrifying roller-coaster.
Magic was presumably influenced by Dead of Night, which had a section that explored a similar scenario.
The film is brilliantly directed by Richard Attenborough. Burgess Meredith (the Penguin from the Batman TV show) is excellent as Corky’s agent, Ben Greene, who soon learns that nothing is quite as it should be.
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