The Temple of Set by Michael A. Aquino

Author:Michael A. Aquino [Aquino, Michael A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497567450
Amazon: 1497567459
Barnesnoble: 1497567459
Goodreads: 21916777
Published: 2010-05-03T02:37:59+00:00

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F6A. The Devil’s Rain. 1975. MA: “In 1974 CE Robert Fuest, who directed the Dr.

Phibes films, decided to film a horror movie with Satanism as its theme. He took an anemic novel about Wiccan-witchcraft in New England and hired Anton LaVey as technical advisor to spice it up, which he did - adding touches of LaVey artwork, Mexican

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extras chanting Enochian Keys, and ‘Satanic Priest’ Ernest Borgnine intoning extracts from the invocation in my ‘Ceremony of the Nine Angles’ in #6L. The setting was moved to Durango, Mexico (‘Redstone’), and the colorful cast included Ida Lupino, William Shater [just before the Star Trek movie revival], John Travolta [his screen debut - a fight

& fall downstairs], and cameos for Anton (a gold-helmeted Priest) and Diane (Borgnine’s colonial-era wife) LaVey. While the film was [and is] lots of fun for those in the know about all this, it bombed at the box office and is today only rarely shown on television. See discussion in #6N.”

F6B. Asylum of Satan. 1975. Charles Kissinger, Carla Borelli. MA: DVD: “Something Weird Video” #ID1598SWDVD. “Around 1971CE, when I was Priest III° of the C/S

Nineveh Grotto in Louisville, Kentucky, a local commercial film company decided to try for the big time by making a Satanic horror movie - using local theatrical talent. Since they had a Church of Satan in town, they asked us if we would handle the ritual scene. I wrote the script, Nineveh designed the chamber, and we imported the Rosemary’s Baby devil-suit [with a new head] from Hollywood. The result of all this was a turkey of a movie with, if I say so, a rather zesty ritual sequence. The company is no longer in existence, but somehow this thing survived as a videocassette - and later, in 2002, as a digitally-remastered, widescreen DVD, complete with a commentary by the original filmmakers which is at least as charming as the film itself Dry-ice, rubber snakes & bugs, and plaid trousers on the hero will all scare you frightfully. See discussion in #6N.”

F6C. The Devil Rides Out. Hammer Films, 1968. Screenplay by Richard Matheson.

Director: Terence Fisher. Christopher Lee. (LVT-2) MA: “Probably one of the best Hammer films ever made - now available in a Hammer Collection videocassette. It is a very accurate screenplay of Dennis Wheatley’s first and most famous Satanism novel.

Look for Charles Gray’s silky-evil portrayal of Mocata, the character whom Wheatley specifically modeled after Aleister Crowley, an acquaintance of his. [One other Wheatley Satanism novel, To the Devil a Daughter, was also made into a film, but it is a ghastly mess which bears no comparison to the book. Wheatley’s novels are generally available in British editions, with occasional American publication. Other novels in his ‘Satanism’ series include The Satanist, They Used Dark Forces, and The Ka of Gifford Hillary.” JL: “The novel is far better than the movie, but few can resist taking a look at the cinematographer’s art turned to the subject of Black Magic. Christopher Lee stars

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