Occult movies

As an artist and an outsider, Kenneth Anger was the West Coast's answer to Andy Warhol – a California boy who hosted rituals for the Church of Satan in his San Francisco mansion, and introduced the Rolling Stones to the occult; a man who found a muse in Mick Jagger, but a bigger one in Charles Manso

I’m a great collector of rare and vintage horror comics and magazines, but this is a whole new genre to me, discovered during a recent Robed in Desire rehearsal, when we were looking for insp…

“Barbara Steele in the British horror film Curse Of The Crimson Altar (1968).”

Dear friend, This post is dedicated to the memory of the filmmaker Kenneth Anger (February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023). A few students leave the classroom with disgust. Others are glued to their seats, their eyes wide open. Enchanted, they soak in the filmic magick. The Age of Aquarius is herald by Lucifer, the artist filmmaker, carrying the instruments of light and enlightenment in the dark organic materia of the room, the city, the world. He walks on the bank of the Nile, around stone circles…

Though initially describing the works of a particular movement of 1940’s and 50’s American crime films, ‘noir’ has come to represent a style derived

The Swedish master Ingmar Bergman is always described as dark and gloomy, but he was a deeply humane artist with great empathy, writes Benjamin Ramm.