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More LaVey influence than in Devil's Rain or Rosemary's Baby., 27 August 2003
Author:
pery-1 from California
Anton Szandor LaVey is credited as "Technical Consultant". It's hard
to
tell who is responsible for what, but several things are almost
certainly
attributable to him. These include Carradine's reciting some of the
infernal names "and all the messengers of his Satanic majesty". The
beautiful red and back baphomet is surely from LaVey, as are the animal
headed people, as in "Das Tierdrama", plus actual animal roars. The
celebrant recites several times "In nomine nostri Satanas Dei Luciferi
excelsi". I think the sadomasochistic scenes with the red-headed hooker
come from LaVey. She is cut on the face, and evidently violated, on the
altar. Later she is in Sir Steven's quarters, bleeding all over, and
reciting that "your pleasure is my pain". What strikes me as a real Anton
LaVey touch of humor is when she is made to kiss Sir Steven's feet, as he
says what may be LaVey's words "Masters are rare, slaves plentiful", and
pours tea or water on her head. Bobo the magician also strikes me as a
LaVey idea. Trilby as "a goddess, an elemental energy source, a link
between this life and the next" reminds me of Jack Parsons and his
elemental
Marjorie Cameron. This idea might also have come from LaVey. It would
be
helpful to see the original "Lucifer's Women" to better guess what are
LaVey contributions to the movie.
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This movie does have, as a reviewer said, enough subplots to make 3
movies. It is not without violence, as there are several deaths, mostly
by
vampire. There is some very hokey dialogue near the end, and false touches
such as when Carradine shows a modern-looking metal torch as being a
3,500
year old Druid torch, and when "exorcise" is pronounced "exercise". On
the
authentic side, the women sport some cool '70's clothes and makeup.
The mixture of Satanism, reincarnation, soul-stealing and vampirism
makes
for a fascinating jumble.
Remember: "Deja vu or lapses of memory, followed by headaches, are
sometimes indications of possession by reincarnated spirits".
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