A brain-crushing collage of music and images presented in the form of a religious recruitment video. The topics covered are basic psychology, the origin of the human race, spiritualism, religious dogma, UFO’s, the end of the world, and the group’s figurehead, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs.
Section: An American Trinity
THE DEVIL’S RAIN
Take the brilliant director of The Abominable Dr. Phibes and a freak show cast of has-beens and also-rans (William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta, Eddie Albert) and what do you get? A very weird movie! A bunch of Satanists in the American rural landscape have terrible powers which enable them to… Continue reading THE DEVIL’S RAIN
GOD TOLD ME TO
A rooftop sniper guns down 14 pedestrians on the streets of New York. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And each of these unlikely killers makes the same dying confession: “God told me to.”… Continue reading GOD TOLD ME TO
ALICE, SWEET ALICE
Religious overtones run through this subtly chilling horror movie, telling the tale of a devout New Jersey family’s struggle to reveal the killer in their midst. After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister, 12 year old Alice, becomes the main suspect. With shades of Nicolas… Continue reading ALICE, SWEET ALICE
BEGOTTEN
The acclaimed and controversial debut by the director of Shadow of The Vampire is a visual poem, filmed in a grainy chiaroscuro black and white. God disembowels himself with a straight razor. Mother Earth gives birth to a quivering messiah thing. Then the local villager’s creatures ravage and bury it. It is as if a… Continue reading BEGOTTEN
An American Trinity
BEGOTTENThe acclaimed and controversial debut by the director of Shadow of The Vampire is a visual poem, filmed in a grainy chiaroscuro black and white. God disembowels himself with a straight razor. Mother Earth gives birth to a quivering messiah thing. Then the local villager’s creatures ravage and bury it. It is as if a… Continue reading An American Trinity