Directed, written, and featuring Joe Schimmel, as well as David Jeremiah, this explains the idea that all Hollywood films are based on Gnosticism, a syncretic religious movement centered on dualism. They believed in two forms of God: one a transcendent, true God, and the other a lower Demiurge responsible for the material world. In this framework, salvation is redefined as the intellectual and spiritual recovery of the divine spark within the individual.
This breaks down The Matrix, The Truman Show, Donnie Darko, Pleasantville, V for Vendetta, Vanilla Sky and more. I mean, The Matrix has a ship called the Gnosis, Neo becoming the one after his mind is opened to forbidden knowledge, cities and people named after Biblical figures, and so much more.
Also: The Architect in The Matrix or Christof in The Truman Show are totally the Demiurge. The Pleasantville allusions in this are pretty spot on as well.
This wants you to understand Luciferian inversion, which is when Satan becomes the good guy and the religious world is the villain. That’s because they’re often cast as the enforcers of the Demiurge’s rules. It’s a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. When the faithful act like the moral police, they fit the Gnostic villain archetype perfectly.
A good way to stop doing that would be for most Christians to stop being assholes, but I digress.
Will this mention Crowley and Helena Blavatsky? You know it.
People can believe whatever they want, but wow, this is quite the movie. They should add commentary tracks to films so I can hear their views while I’m watching the actual film.
James Alan Hydrick was a self-professed psychic who could perform tricks like moving a pencil across a table. He first appeared on That’s Incredible! What’s, well, incredible is the fact that five years before, Hydrick was arrested for torture and kidnapping. He escaped three prisons, once by kicking right through a concrete wall, another by going right through the gates and the last time, pole vaulting his way out.
Hydrick claimed that he had psychokinesis and could turn the pages in a phone book by looking at them. As you can imagine, if you were around then, James Randi saw this magic trick trying to pass as psychic power and went after Hydrick, even replicating one of his tricks when Hydrick couldn’t on That’s My Line.
Investigative journalist and professional magician Dan Korem finally got the “psychic” to confess, at which point Hydrick claimed that he was trying to see just how dumb the public was. After all, he convinced many people that he was given these powers by an ascended Eastern teacher named Master Woo.
That didn’t stop him from performing and starting karate schools, places that he used to lure children in and abuse them. Wanted on an outstanding warrant, Hydrick was arrested after police recognized him from Sally Jessy Raphael. Hydrick was sentenced to 17 years for molesting five boys in Huntington Beach, California, andthen sent to the Atascadero State Hospital for treatment under the sexually violent predator law.
This is the movie directed and written by Danny Korem that got the truth out of Hydrick. Hydrick would balance a pencil on the edge of a table. He didn’t use his mind; he used sharp, controlled puffs of air. Korem noted that Hydrick would turn his head to the side to make it look like he wasn’t blowing, but the air currents would travel along the surface of the table, moving the object.
To move objects under a sealed glass tank, Hydrick relied on the fact that most tables are not perfectly flat. He would blow air through the tiny gaps between the tank and the table.
During the investigation, Hydrick became extremely agitated and refused to perform when Korem placed sensitive microphones near him (to pick up the sound of his breathing) or used tape to seal the gaps under the glass tanks.
Narrated by Jack Palance, this shows how it all went down. You can see Hydrick pretty much blowing air out of his mouth to move these objects before we learn how he learned karate to fight his brother, who he claimed killed his brother. To be fair, Hydrick’s family members admitted to shocking levels of abuse. His father would tie him to a barrel and put ping pong balls in his mouth so he couldn’t scream while being beaten, and his aunt even recalled his mother using a wooden paddle to sexually abuse Hydrick.
Hydrick admitted that as a child, he would imagine himself going to the moon or living in a mansion in China to escape the pain, childhood fantasies that became the lies he told the public about his Eastern training. Because his parents couldn’t handle his active nature, he was dumped in the Whitten Center, an institution for the mentally deficient, despite having a normal IQ.
This ends up all falling to pieces for him while we watch, a fascinating forty minutes of cringe and the knowledge that you’re watching a criminal in the act. Hydrick wasn’t just looking for fame; he was looking for a following. He admitted to Korem that he used his tricks to convert inmates in jail, making Bible pages turn by the power of God, just to see if he could control them. As we see Hydrick’s 1982 arrest, which occurred just days after he confessed to Korem, we learn that he was caught receiving stolen guns from his own students—the young boys he was supposed to be mentoring in his karate school.
Even while in jail for these charges, he continued to perform, once faking a suicide attempt with a trick rope just to amuse himself and manipulate the guards.
Produced by Screw Magazine founders Jim Buckley and Al Goldstein and what was to be the first of several movies from the New York City magazine, this was directed and written by Peter Locke, who produced The Brave Little Toaster, The Hills Have Eyes, Freeway, the cartoon Spiral Zone and lots of adult films, which he also directed.
This is shot on 35mm, has a theme song — “Porno Queen” by Liz Torres, who was married to Locke at the time and would one day be Miss Patty on Gilmore Girls and this is a a far cry from the town square of Stars Hollow, yet the fact that she sang that and apepars in a non-sex role speaks to the “anything goes” hustle of New York’s theater and film scene at the time — and Wes Craven was the assistant director and editor.
It’s a simple story. Felicity Split (Melissa Hall, a one-and-done actress who is actually more conventionally attractive than many 70s porn queens) is great in bed and turns that into a career. First, it’s her boyfriend Elliot (Harry Reems without facial hair!) — well, she also urinates on a human bidet (Peter Bramley, the first art director of National Lampoon with Bill Skurski), proving that early 70s adult is way filthier than 2026 smut — and then gets hooked up with an agent named Peter Pull (Marc Stevens) and getting into a $4 million dollar adult movie about the Bible, three years before the Mitchell Borthers made Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days and six years before Caligula.
Other actors include Cindy West (who was also known as Susan Sands, Terri Scott, Joy Otis, Cindy Travcrs, Helen Highwater, Linda Terry, Laura Bentley, Teri Reardon, Laura Lake, Terry Ruggiera and here appearing as Tammy Twat; she’s also in Alfred Sole’s adult movie, Deep Sleep), Jamie Gillis (billed as Buster Hymen and acting just like you’d hope Jamie would), Roger Caine (who was in Martin as Al Levitsky), Gus Thomas (who went on to be a District Attorney for Cortland County, New York, and an adjunct professor for 17 years at Syracuse University Law School), Tanya Tickler (she’s given the thankless job of orally servicing Goldstein), Mike Sullivan (he also did props on this movie and would go on to do effects for Mortal Kombat, Star Trek V and Little Shop of Horrors, as well as play Dippy in Madman), David Buckley (who directed Saturday Night at the Baths) and Jim Buckley (AKA Jim Clark, director of Debbie Does Dallas).
It’s alright; it certainly wasn’t going to ride the wave of porn chic, but then again, is Deep Throat a good movie?
It Happened In Hollywood is perhaps best known for a live read on WMCA 570 AM in New York by “Long John” Nebel. Nebel was ahead of Coast to Coast AM by decades, taking calls from people who wanted to learn more about UFOs and the weird things that go bump in the night. During this moment, Nebel was trying to read an ad for this movie and, well, things got out of hand.
Westchester County played host to a veritable army of maniacs, including Ed Adlum (Shriek of the Mutilated), the Findlays (Snuff) and Ed Kelleher (Prime Evil), who were armed with a camera, $24,000, some stage blood and cases of beer to pay off the cast. The result is a movie that seems like it could fit in with Motel Hell at first before you realize that these farmers are druids out to raise their queen from the dead with the blood of the stupid.
These Sangroids are bringing back Queen Onhorrid and they won’t let anyone stand in their way and that includes puppies. It’s a movie that doesn’t care if it’s shot in the day, the night or day for night. It is also relentlessly devoted to being weird without being a try hard movie. This is just plain weird.
Throw in an atonal soundtrack, the chunkiest blood you’ve ever seen and a woman in a glass case who gets to come back from the beyond and rule for all of 45 seconds and you have a movie.
If you watched Manos: The Hands of Fate and were hoping to find something just as odd and as poorly realized, this would be the spiritual East Coast sequel that you crave. If anyone else wrote that sentence, it would be a put-down. Coming out of my typing fingers, it’s the highest of compliments.
You can watch this on Tubi or get it from Severin.
Based on Ray Russell’s novel of the same title, Incubus is all about demon rape. There’s really no other way to say it. If you’re looking for the definitive word on the subject, this movie would probably be your best choice. And hey, John Cassavetes is in it!
The film opens in a rock quarry where Mandy and her boyfriend are swimming. More likely, they’re fooling around until an unseen force caves in the dude’s head and attacks her, putting her in the hospital with a ruptured uterus. While all this is going on, Tim Galen, a local teen, dreams of hooded men tying a woman down and torturing her.
Dr. Sam Cordell (Cassavetes) is treating the girl and we soon learn a lot about his life. His wife has recently died, he’s relocated to the town of Galen following a scandal and his daughter, Jenny, doesn’t really get along with him. Oh yeah — and she’s also dating Tim.
Sheriff Hank Walden (John Ireland, whose career stretches from classics like All the King’s Men and I Saw What You Did to Satan’s Cheerleaders) and reporter Laura Kincaid are on the case too, which expands when a librarian is killed and murdered. It turns out that she has red semen inside her body — so much semen that she’s literally been filled up and destroyed by it. If you’re thinking this is a totally scummy storyline, well, buckle up.
The rapes and murders continue and every single time, young Tim is having the dream while they happen, including an attack at a movie theater where he’s gone to try and distract himself. Look for an appearance by a really young Bruce Dickinson singing for his pre-Iron Maiden band Samson in this scene!
What is Dr. Sam doing? Oh, you know, showing Laura photos of his recently deceased second wife — the reason why he left wherever it was he lived before — and she looks exactly like the reporter. She has some news, too. The town of Galen has a long history of Satanic activity and these rape crimes are nothing new.
Is Tim the killer? Was his mother a witch? Or is his family part of a long line of witch hunters? Is the real killer a shapeshifting incubus, which rapes women in their dreams?
We get our answers pretty quickly. Sam tries to induce Tim’s demonic state while Laura takes Jenny up to bed. Tim tries to attack Laura with a witch hunting dagger his grandmother has given him, but Sam stops the boy and kills him. That’s when we learn that Laura had been the incubus all along. As she lovingly holds Sam, he looks to the bed where his dead daughter is bleeding between the legs.
Yes. That’s really the ending. I warned you that this film was rough, didn’t I?
Incubus was directed by John Hough, who was behind one of my favorite movies of all time, Twins of Evil. He also helmed The Legend of Hell Houseand both of Disney’s Witch Mountain movies. It’s written by Ray Russell, who also wrote plenty of other horror fiction that was made into movies and screenplays, including X the Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Mr. Sarndonicus, Zotz! and Roger Corman’s The Premature Burial.
While this movie moves slow and some subplots go nowhere, the last few minutes are exactly what you want the movie to be and Cassavetes is — as always — better than the material.
When a movie has the working title Want A Ride, Little Girl? you know it’s going to be scummy. What may surprise you is that William Shatner — who director William Gréfe met at an airport — is in the lead role.
Don’t be fooled by the supernatural looking poster. No, this is a slasher with Shatner’s Matt Stone as the bad guy picking up young women, freaking out Shat-style and getting rid of their bodies. He’s being trailed by a detective named Karate Pete (Harold “Oddjob” Sakata), which is, pardon the pun, pretty odd. He’s on the trail because Stone keeps bilking and killing old women for their money.
Jennifer Bishop (who is also in Gréfe’s Mako the Jaws of Death) plays the daughter of one of these older women who suspects that the leisure suit-wearing Stone is a shyster. And oh yeah — Ruth Roman is in this!
Sakata almost died making this, as the rig that was used for his hanging death failed and he was nearly hung for real. Shatner saved his life — breaking a finger in the process — and the entire accident can be seen on the He Came from the Swamps documentary.
This movie belongs to Shatner. As a child, his character kills William Kerwin with a sword in a kind of pre-Piecesopening, then murders a puppy and gets so worked up in one scene that he supposedly farts on camera. His assortment of 70’s fashions are pretty astounding and every single frame of this feels as sweaty and gross as a night in the Everglades.
Directed and written by Walerian Borowczyk, Immoral Tales is four stories that each have a different tale of lovemaking, starting with “The Tide,” the story of André (Fabrice Luchini) getting head from his 16-year-old cousin (Lise Danvers) in concert with the waves of the ocean. This is taken from a story by surrealist writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
It’s followed by “Thérése the Philosopher,” an adaptation of the 1748 novel of the same name that was written by either Jean-Baptiste de Boyer or Marquis d’Argens. Thérése (Charlotte Alexandra) becomes locked out of her room, freeing her to mix her love of Christ with need for sex. There’s an incredibly sacrilegious moment filmed in actual church, which had the director exclaim “Thérèse was played by an English actress. She was only seventeen years old, I remember, and very shy. We had to film her nude scenes in complete seclusion, only my assistant and I were allowed to be there, and he was only twelve! We got permission to film in a real church, a very beautiful and quite famous one, an historical monument. There were no difficulties with the priest; I was very surprised. The man was very tolerant indeed, in spite of all this pipe organ business ! The film was even shown in the church cinema of the village, if you can imagine that!”
The third tale is probably the most famous, as it concerns Elizabeth Báthory (Paloma Picasso) bathing herself in the blood of the young virgins of her kingdom. Picasso is really bathing in 30 gallons of pig blood in this part of the movie. Borowczyk was inspired by surrealist poet Valentine Penrose and the way she related the legend of Bathory.
Finally, Pope Alexander VI’s daughter Lucrezia Borgia (Florence Bellamy) indulges her passions with her male relatives. There was a fifth story, which ended up being the film La Bête. When Arrow released this on blu ray, they added that film into this one as the third chapter.
Despite being a movie all about sex, this is a gorgeous act of cinema, filled with lush imagery and gorgeous camerawork. There was a time when non-hardcore movies could be made as art and this is a prime example, a film that was second place in the French box office behind another example of softcore, Emmanuelle.
Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She currently works as a freelance ghostwriter of personal memoirs and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international politics.
“Over three years in the making, this much-anticipated sequel to the original Hell’s Bells series weaves together science, satire, testimonies, parables, interviews, expansive research and a vibrant Christian perspective to create a video series that is as fascinating as it is educational and evangelistic. Far more than just a commentary on the dangers of popular music, this eight-part, six-and-a-half-hour and up-to-the-minute documentary uncovers the war of the worldviews, the epic struggle between good and evil, sin and redemption for the souls of men and the destiny of our culture.”
Yes, I watched every single minute more than once.
There are eight parts:
Part 1: Introduction – Foundations for Cultural Analysis; 19 minutes.
Part 2: Sound & Fury – An Examination of the Power of Music; 50 minutes.
Part 3: Heartbeats – Music’s Spiritual Connection; 30 minutes.
Part 4: Notes from the Underground – The Occult History of Rock; 70 minutes.
Part 5: Hearts of Darkness – Rebellion, Nihilism and Death; 48 minutes.
Part 6: Mojo Rising – Satanic Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll; 60 minutes.
Part 7: Antichrist Superstars – Rock’s Ultimate Rebellion; 43 minutes.
Part 8: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Music and Life at the Cross Roads; 48 minutes.
Hosted by Eric Holmberg, this has more than just the normal Satanic bands represented, as there’s an entire montage of musicians thanking God and the narration taking them to task.
Far beyond a simple commentary on heavy metal, this eight-part documentary uncovers an epic struggle between competing worldviews. It argues that the battle for the soul of the culture isn’t fought just in the extremes of the underground, but in the mainstream melodies we hum every day.
Every single band and singer you have ever heard is Satanic because rock and roll is about rebellion. When Frank Sinatra sang “My Way?” Satan. He’s glorifying himself. He’s as bad as Marilyn Manson, who you can just imagine goes all in on this, especially when it comes to his ties to Crowley, and then this brings back so many of the same stories from the first movie.
While the series is a masterclass in thematic editing and conviction, it’s worth noting that the all-rock-is-rebellion stance is a specific theological interpretation. Many music historians and even some contemporary theologians argue that music, as an art form, is a common grace that can be used for various expressions, not all of which are inherently spiritual or rebellious.
There are times, however, when I see bands I like, such as Venom, Danzig, or King Diamond, and I say, “Well, I’ll give that to you.”
Reel to Reel Ministries should never discover black metal. Or they should, because I’d watch that. I can just hear the breatheless worry in their voices when they try and explain the war between Burzum and Euronymous.
“I’m a rolling thunder, fire and rain
I’m coming on like a hurricane
My lightning’s flashing across the sky
You’re only young, but you’re gonna die”
Directed, hosted and produced by Eric Holmberg, founder of Reel to Real Ministries and The Apologetics Group, Hell’s Bells is the Satanic Panic encapsulated. There are leaps of logic, scare tactics and clips of bands that are so great that I can only assume that kids like me were taking notes. After all, when I was in sixth grade, my elementary school teacher gave me a ditto copied series of bands to warn my friends about. Black Sabbath, just by its description, got me so excited that I never looked back and I am a cautionary tale, a man obsessed with old Mercyful Fate albums and Jess Franco sleaze.
Kids, don’t be me.
How else can we explain a movie that puts as much info into your brain about Diamanda Galas as Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Prince?
I grew up dead center of this time. I was called into a Peer Group, as they called it, because I wore black shirts, read Fangoria in class, had long hair and could speak at length about the Lost Books of the Bible and teh Church of Satan. Anytime a pentagram showed up on a wall, a cadre of devil worshippers were waiting to eat babies and obviously, I had infant stuck between my teeth. Time has made my experiences kinder; I am no longer an Eddie Munson kid without the benefit of cheerleaders wanting to get with me for drugs, not that I ever was. I still listen to bands that’ll curl your hair and send your soul to a lake of fire, but at least now I would hope I appear somewhat respectable.
But man, this release is all inclusive. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Whitesnake, The Frogs — the fucking Frogs, the Milwaukee brother band that wears bat wings on stage and sings lyrics like “Who’s sucking on grandpa’s balls since grandma ain’t home tonight?” — and so many more to the point that when it got to ELO, I screamed at the TV, “He’s the nasty one– Christ, you’re infernal! is backmasked on their song “Eldorado!”” because I knew the script so well. It had been jammed down my gullet for years.
“For Whom Hell’s Bells Toll” ran twenty years ago in Pitchfork and I am delighted that writer Stephen M. Deusner took the time to list the hundreds of bands called out in this movie:
Here is the list of artists and the associated concerns formatted into a bulleted list:
A-II-Z: Occult-themed album art (Witch of Berkeley); this one is pretty rare, to be honest.
AC/DC: Soundtracked Hell’s Bells, inspired “Night Stalker” serial killer, pentagrams on album art (Highway to Hell), violent cover art (If You Want Blood You Got It).
Aerosmith: Drug and alcohol abuse, equating sex and religion on “Angel.”
Agnostic Front: Violent and rebellion-themed album art (Cause for Alarm).
Amen: Objectionable album art (Disorderly Conduct.
Aphrodite’s Child/Vangelis: Released album called 666. Vangelis!
Bad Religion: Objectionable band name, objectionable album art (Back to the Known).
Ballad Shambles: Objectionable album art (unknown source).
Bananarama: “Venus” video equates sex with religion.
Bangles: “Degraded” sexuality in song “In Your Room” (“I’ll do anything you want me to”).
Bauhaus: Backwards Latin Satanic incantation in “Father, Son & Holy Ghost,” combine Satanic imagery “with an intelligence and poetic passion rarely found” in heavy metal.
Be Bop Deluxe: Pentagram on album cover (Live! In the Air Age).
Beastie Boys: More than 90 references to drug and alcohol abuse on Licensed to Ill. I am certain in future episodes this will get into their Dalai Lama connections.
Bobby Beausoleil: Composed music for Lucifer Rising, Manson family member.
Beatles: Being bigger than Jesus, featuring Crowley on album cover (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), violent album art (Yesterday and Today), drugs, rebellion, El Cronado.
Birthday Party: Likened Jesus to “bad seed,” indecipherable lyrics about “post-crucifixion baby.”
Bitch: Sexual and violent album art (Be My Slave).
Black Flag: Violent and suicide-themed album art (Family Man).
Black Market Baby: Objectionable band name and album art (Senseless Offerings).
Black Sabbath: Number of the beast, crucifixion imagery, objectionable album art (Born Again, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath). I mean, this is one of the biggest ones, so this should be longer than it is.
Blaspheme: Objectionable band name and album art (Last Supper).
Bl’ast!: Sex- and occult-themed album art (Take the Manic Ride).
Bloodrock: Violent album art (Bloodrock U.S.A.).
Blue Öyster Cult: Adopted Satanic cross as band logo, included backmasked messages (Mirrors). Is it weird that I know more than this movie, like how on the inside cover of Secret Treaties, Eric Bloom is dressed like a member of the Process Church?
Marc Bolan: Untimely death.
Bon Jovi: Hosting MTV’s Hedonism Week, references to alcohol on “Dead or Alive,” rebellion, sexual album art (original Slippery When Wet cover).
Graham Bond: Claimed to be illegitimate son of occultist Aleister Crowley.
David Bowie: Occult, recorded “Quicksand” about Crowley. Come on, tell us about hiding from witches and putting urine in a refrigerator while out of his mind on coke!
Bobby Brown: Simulated copulation with audience member.
David Byrne and Brian Eno: Recorded song about demonic possession, uses African “voodoo” rhythms.
Marty Callner (video director): Soft-porn videos (“Is This Love?” by Whitesnake). Come on — he directed the Camelot TV movie!
Cars: Ric Ocasek walking on water in “Magic” video.
Celtic Frost: Use crucifix as slingshot on album cover (To Mega Therion), occult, rebellion. I’ll give them this one.
CH3: Suicide-themed album art (Fear of Life).
Chauteaux: Witchcraft-themed album art (Chained and Desperate).
Cheap Trick: Took band name from Ouija board, backmasked messages, El Cronado.
Cher: Sex. Not. turning back time?
Christian Death: Gnosticism, sex- and occult-themed album art (Only Theatre of Pain, The Scriptures, Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ, What’s the Verdict).
Christ’s Child: Objectionable album cover (Hard).
The Church: Objectionable band name, broken angel imagery on album cover (The Church).
Cinderella: Condemned drug use on MTV Rock Against Drugs PSAs (hypocritical).
CJSS: Recorded song “Citizen of Hell,” objectionable album art (Praise the Loud).
Eric Clapton: Promoted alcohol abuse via beer ad.
Coil: Devotees of Aleister Crowley.
Natalie Cole: Sex.
Phil Collins: “So-called neutral stuff, by the very reason of its subtlety, [is] potentially more destructive than the over wickedness found in hardcore rock and roll.”
Alice Cooper: On-stage mutilation, rebellion, “School’s Out” prevents mice from solving mazes, objectionable album art (Constrictor). Also a right wing Christian, but who is checking that out?
Coven: Objectionable album art (Blessed Is the Black, Blood in the Snow), El Cronado. I mean, there’s not a more Satanic band out there; they had an entire black mass on an album.
Cramps: “Degraded” sexuality (Date With Elvis).
Crass: Crucifixion-themed album art (Christ the Album, Yes Sir I Will).
David Crosby: Stealing kids from parents through music.
Crown of Thorns: Objectionable band name and album art (Pictures).
Cuban Heels: Universalism (Work Our Way to Heaven).
Cure: Alcohol abuse, blasphemy in “The Blood” and “Holy Hour,” combine Satanic imagery “with an intelligence and poetic passion rarely found” in heavy metal.
Current 93: Objectionable album art (Nature Unveiled), devoted album Crowleymass to Aleister Crowley.
Damned: Crown of thorns imagery (Grimly Fiendish)
Dan Reed Network: Voodoo-inspired R&B
Terence Trent D’Arby: Crown of thorns and self-crucifixion (photoshoot)
Dark Angel: Objectionable band name and album art (Darkness Descends)
Dark Wizard: Objectionable album art (Reign of Evil)
Dead Kennedys: Objectionable album art (In God We Trust, Inc.)
Death: Objectionable album art (Scream Bloody Gore)
Death Cult: Objectionable album art (Death Cult)
Chris de Burgh: Album art with Satan giving El Cronado (Spanish Train)
Def Leppard: Occult imagery, sex-themed songs
Depeche Mode: Songs about sex and sadomasochism, recorded “Blasphemous Rumors”
Devo: Objectionable album art (“Peekaboo” 12″)
Dickies: Mock Jesus on album art (Second Coming)
Bo Diddley: Rebellion
Dio: Occult-themed songs and stage shows, El Cronado, objectionable album art (Holy Diver)
Doors: Rebellion, drugs, sex, violence, murder, occult; Morrison married a witch, claimed to have killed a man, allegedly possessed by Native American souls, objectionable album art (13)
Duran Duran: Satanic symbol on album art (Seven and the Ragged Tiger)
Earth Wind & Fire: Universalist imagery on album art (All in All)
Easter: Album cover features fornication with cross (Easter)
Sheena Easton: Contributes to “the pulsing rhythms that reverberate in our health spas”
Eddie & the Hot Rods: Suicide-themed album art (Life on the Line)
Electric Light Orchestra: Backmasked messages on “Eldorado”
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Objectionable album art (Brain Salad Surgery)
Eurythmics: “Missionary Man” warns listeners away from salvation
Exodus: Album art shows union of God and Satan
Marianne Faithfull: Appeared in satanic movie Lucifer Rising
The F.U.’s: Objectionable album title (Kill for Christ)
Femme Fatale: Sex
Fleetwood Mac: Incorporated voodoo dress and rhythms in live shows
Tom Fogerty: Universalism (Myopia)
Lita Ford: Sex
Samantha Fox: Sex, allegedly worships Pan
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Rebellion, songs about sex and sadomasochism, objectionable album art (Welcome to the Pleasure Dome), ruined Live Aid, El Cronado. Fuck yeah.
Frogs: “Militant homosexuality,” objectionable album art (It’s Only Right and Natural), recorded song called “Gather Round for Messiah #2.” I love that The Frogs get called out in this.
Peter Gabriel: Voodoo imagery in “Shock the Monkey” video.
Diamanda Galas: Recorded album Litanies of Satan, proclaimed herself the Anti-Christ (“Sono l’Antichristo”), provided music for voodoo-themed movie The Serpent & the Rainbow, objectionable album art (Divine Punishment). Who knew who she was outside of weirdos like me?
Bob Geldof: Introduced Frankie Goes to Hollywood at Live Aid, allowed most of the funds raised to fall into the hands of Ethiopia’s communist dictator.
Generation X: Objectionable album art (Valley of the Dolls).
George Thorogood and the Destroyers: Recorded song “Bad to the Bone.” Really?
Graceland: Satirized The Last Supper on album The First Snack.
Graham Central Station: Objectionable album art (Release Yourself).
Grateful Dead: “Synonymous with marijuana and LSD use.” Also not really dead.
Greater Than One: Objectionable album art (I Don’t Need God).
Grim Reaper: Recorded song “See You in Hell,” objectionable album art (See You in Hell).
Guns N’ Roses: “Sexual violence” in music, album art; inverted cross (Appetite for Destruction).
Nina Hagen: Objectionable album NunSexMonkRock contains song “Cosma Shiva” that mocks Christ and the Madonna.
Daryl Hall: Has large collection of occult material.
George Harrison: Universalism.
Healing Faith: Promote suicide (The Healing Faith).
Heart: Video includes occult imagery.
Hellion: Objectionable album art (Postcards from the Asylum).
Helloween: Objectionable album art (Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 2).
Jimi Hendrix: Hypnotizing people through music, choking on own vomit, voodoo rhythms, rebellion, violence, “If 6 Was 9” used in interstitials.
Nona Hendryx: Sex.
Whitney Houston: “Saving All My Love for You” promotes infidelity; “so-called neutral stuff, by the very reason of its subtlety, is potentially more destructive than the over wickedness found in hardcore rock and roll.”
Huey Lewis & the News: “Step by Step” warns listeners away from salvation.
Huns: Fake crucifixion on stage, song called “Eat Death, Scum.”
Billy Idol: Rebellion, fake crucifixion in “Hot in the City” video, mock crosses in “White Wedding” video.
Impaler: Objectionable album art (Rise of the Mutants EP), eating raw meat on stage.
INXS: Recorded song “Devil Inside.”
Iron Maiden: Mascot Eddie told fan to kill himself; neuromancy, occult, rebellion, objectionable album art (Killers, The Number of the Beast, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son).
LaToya Jackson: Posed for Playboy.
Michael Jackson: Sex, “Thriller” video features occult imagery.
Colin James: Recorded voodoo-related song.
Rick James: El Cronado.
Jane’s Addiction: Drug abuse, objectionable album art (Nothing’s Shocking).
Jefferson Airplane: Recorded song called “The Son of Jesus,” rebellion.
Elton John: Commissioned family crest featuring Pan.
Robert Johnson: Sold soul to devil at crossroads, inspired rock and roll.
Judas Priest: Suicide, rebellion, objectionable album art (Hell Bent for Leather, Sin After Sin).
Killing Joke: Mock Catholicism in video.
Sam Kinison: Soft-porn videos, pentagrams, not being funny.
KISS: Bloody stage show, sex, rebellion, violence, El Cronado.
Kreator: Objectionable album art (Pleasure to Kill).
Cyndi Lauper: Promotes rebellion, recorded “She-Bop” about masturbation.
Timothy Leary: “Pharmacological guru of the rock ‘n’ roll generation.”
Led Zeppelin: Backmasked messages and references to Pan on “Stairway to Heaven,” Zoso = number of the beast.
John Lennon: Openly mocked Jesus.
Kenny Loggins: Objectionable album art (Keep the Fire).
Lords of the New Church: Combine “heavy metal imagery with poetic passion,” objectionable band name and album art (The Lords of the New Church, Killer Lords).
Ludichrist: Objectionable band name and album art (Immaculate Deception).
Lydia Lunch: Objectionable album art (Slow Choke). Gave handjob to Henry Rollins in a Richard Kern movie. I added that one.
Madonna: “Ex-porn star,” crucifixion imagery in “Like a Prayer” video, “brazenly pornographic style,” materialistic. Ex-porn star is a reach.
Richard Marx: Sex, sang on “All Night Long” by Lionel Richie, did Hazard concept album, are you paying attention?
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan: Untimely death.
John McLaughlin: Admits to being possessed while playing, occult.
MDC (Millions of Dead Cops/Damn Christians): Song “This Blood’s for You” mocks Jesus and inspired thousands of Christian t-shirts, objectionable album art (This Blood’s for You).
Meat Loaf: El Cronado.
Megadeth: Occult, rebellion, objectionable album art (Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good).
Men in Black: Objectionable album art (The Gospel According to the Men in Black)
Mercyful Fate: “Take their Satanism seriously,” rebellion, occult, objectionable album art (Don’t Break the Oath). Again, this one is a given.
Metal Church: Objectionable album art (Metal Church).
Metallica: Promote suicide on “Fade to Black.”
George Michael: Wants your sex; “so-called neutral stuff, by the very reason of its subtlety, is potentially more destructive than the over wickedness found in hardcore rock and roll.”
Joni Mitchell: Has male muse named Art.
Mötley Crüe: Equate sex and violence, used pentagram in album art (Shout at the Devil), El Cronado.
Motörhead: Crucifixion-themed album art (unknown source).
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Marry Satanic message with “a sense of religious and poetic transcendence,” objectionable album art (I See Good Spirits & I See Bad Spirits). Also: They claim that they’re British when they’re from Chicago.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Combine Satanic imagery “with an intelligence and poetic passion rarely found” in heavy metal.
Nosferatu: Objectionable album art (unknown source).
Oingo Boingo: Unclear.
Overkill: Objectionable album art and video (Under the Influence).
Ozzy Osbourne: Rebellion, attacking Jim Bakker in “Miracle Man,” satanic imagery on album art (Blizzard of Ozz, No Rest for the Wicked), promote suicide on “Suicide Solution,” released album Mr. Crowley devoted to Aleister Crowley, El Cronado, scary face.
Jimmy Page: “One of the leading occultists of the rock generation,” owns occult bookstore, bought Aleister Crowley’s former home and had it refurbished by a Satanic decorator.
Anita Pallenberg: Girlfriend of several members of the Rolling Stones, also involved in the making of Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising.
Robert Palmer: Sexual content in music videos, wrote about Master Musicians of Joujouka.
Pebbles: Sex.
Pink Floyd: Rebellion.
Robert Plant: Sex.
Plasmatics/Wendy O. Williams: Backmasked message about brainwashing, satanic symbols on album art (Coup d’Etat, Metal Priestess).
Poison: Violence, sex, objectionable album art (Open Up and Say…Ahh!).
Poison Idea: Mutilation-themed album art (Kings of Punk).
The Police: “Every Breath You Take” used in interstitial title screen.
Iggy Pop/The Stooges: Bloodletting at concert.
Possessed: General Satanism and witchcraft. Seven Churches is a great album.
Elvis Presley: Sexuality.
Pretty Poison: Voodoo imagery in video.
Pretty Things: Objectionable album art (Silk Torpedo), signed to Led Zeppelin’s White Swan label, which threw blasphemous record release party.
Prince: Sex, falsely promotes himself as new breed of Christian, recorded songs “The Cross” and “Batdance.” Wow.
Psychic TV:Music arm of Crowley-linked sect Thee Temple of Psychick Youth, objectionable album art (Live at Thee Circus).
Queen: Backmasking, drug abuse.
Rainbow: Violent album art (Straight Between the Eyes).
Ratt: Rebellion.
Raven:Recorded song “Hell Patrol.”
Lou Reed: Drug abuse.
Residents: Objectionable album art (God in 3 Persons).
RF-7: Objectionable album art (unknown source).
Lionel Richie: “So-called neutral stuff, by the very reason of its subtlety, [is] potentially more destructive than the over wickedness found in hardcore rock and roll.”
Rigor Mortis: Recorded song “Condemned to Hell,” objectionable album art (Rigor Mortis).
Rods: Violent album art (Let Them Eat Metal).
Rolling Stones: Recorded song “Sympathy for the Devil” on At Her Satanic Majesty’s Request, objectionable album art (Goats Head Soup, Undercover, Tattoo You), bankrolled sect called the Process, made Satanic movie Invocation of My Demon Brother.
David Lee Roth: Sex.
Peter Rowan: Likens music to “spiritual force.”
Todd Rundgren: El Cronado.
Rush: Invoked Greek equivalent of Pan on 2112, backmasking.
Santana: Universalist.
Scorpions: Sex, cage imagery in “Rock You Like a Hurricane” video, objectionable album art (Blackout, Love at First Sting).
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: Objectionable band name and album art, lyrics include “The only good Christian is a dead Christian.”
Sex Pistols: Rebellion, self-mutilation, Rotten designed t-shirt with upside-down crucifixion.
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Recorded song “Sin in My Heart.”
Sister: Pentagrams.
Sisters of Mercy: Combine Satanic imagery “with an intelligence and poetic passion rarely found” in heavy metal.
Skulls: Crucifixion imagery (unknown source).
Slayer: Used pentagram on album art (Reign in Blood).
Smashed Gladys: Sex and necromancy on album art (Social Intercourse).
Patti Smith: Rebellion, recorded Joujouka-inspired album Radio Ethiopia.
Smiths: Combine Satanic imagery “with an intelligence and poetic passion rarely found” in heavy metal.
Sonic Youth: Obsessed with death (“Death Valley ’69”).
Spooky Tooth: Album cover depicts Jesus with hand nailed to head (Ceremony).
Bruce Springsteen: Makes money in rock industry.
Stiff Kittens: Crowley on album cover (Happy Now).
Suicidal Tendencies: Pentagrams.
Suicide: Promote suicide
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks: Objectionable band name, recorded “I Am the Lord Jesus” backwards.
The The: Unclear (“Gravitate to Me” may promote drug use).
Tone Loc: Sex.
Pete Townshend: Objectionable album art.
Tina Turner: Participated in Live Aid, where Mick Jagger ripped off her skirt.
Twisted Sister: Rebellion, violent album art (Stay Hungry)
Uncle Bonsai: Sex-themed album (Boys Want Sex in the Morning).
Undisputed Truth: Crucifixion imagery on album cover (unknown source).
Urge Overkill: Objectionable album art (Jesus Urge Superstar).
Uriah Heep: Objectionable album art (Abominog).
U2: Make money through rock industry.
Van Halen: Sex, song “Best of Both Worlds” about finding heaven on earth.
Venom: Album title Welcome to Hell, pentagram and goat imagery, how long do you have?
Virus: Objectionable album art (unknown source).
Void: Inverted cross on album art (Condensed Flesh).
Wall of Voodoo: So influenced by voodoo they took it as their name.
Warlock: Objectionable album art (Triumph and Agony), recorded song “All We Are” about earthly redemption.
W.A.S.P./Blackie Lawless: Rebellion, sex-themed and violent album art (Animal (F**k Like a Beast), Inside the Electric Circus).
Wasted Youth: Crucifixion-themed album art (Black Daze).
Jody Watley: Sex.
Wayne County & the Electric Chairs: Recorded song “Storm the Gates of Heaven.”
Whitesnake: Sex in “Is This Love?” video, objectionable album art (Lovehunter).
The Who: Violent stage act, incited riot at Cincinnati show that resulted in 11 deaths.
Toyah Willcox: Songs about occult, El Cronado.
Steve Winwood: Recorded “Higher Love,” “so-called neutral stuff, by the very reason of its subtlety, [is] potentially more destructive than the over wickedness found in hardcore rock and roll.”
XTC: Recorded “Dear God.”
Young Gods: Mutilation-themed album art (The Young Gods).
Zodiac Mindwarp: “Prime Mover” video promotes rebellion, destroys church.
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