Thanks again, Occult Demon Casestte.

“They come from another dimension. They have an agenda we are not aware of. They are already here, and they look just like us. How would you react if you met your double, and knew only one of you could survive?”

In the year 2284, bestselling author Alex (Stan Weston, Professor Wilson from The Power) meets his dopplegangers, all of whom want to use his face and fame to publish The Book, which they claim can save humanity through alchemy. 

“Is it a formula for Utopia? A secret group of dissidents determined to remain unchanged thinks otherwise.”

Directed, written, and shot by Ø (or Richard Weiss), this used to have a Facebook page, now covered with warnings about hackers and the “I don’t give permission” post that your high school boy or girlfriend’s MAGA mom has posted several times. 

The official site is down too.

People talk about lost media all the time, and if you think about it, all these old cult films, lost in time, their Geocities websites left empty, social media no longer communicating, are also lost media. When a creator’s social media is replaced by boomer-scam warnings and “Facebook doesn’t own my posts” copypasta, it creates a meta-narrative: the film about a disappearing reality has itself been swallowed by the digital void.

We focus on the films themselves, but the ecosystem around them, such as the fan theories on 1998 message boards, the Geocities sites with flickering “Under Construction” GIFs and the dead links are the Gnostic ruins of our modern age.

This movie looks absolutely INSANE. I can’t be more hyperbolic about this.

You can watch this on YouTube.

If you’ve ever dropped a tab of acid and stared at a Steve Ditko panel until the colors started screaming, you might have an inkling of what was brewing in the 1970s. But behind the neon mandalas and the “Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth” lies a rabbit hole that connects Silver Age ink to the darkest corners of occult history.

“Almost everyone is unaware of the true history of one of today’s most popular Marvel characters, Doctor Strange. What is the connection to Satanist Aleister Crowley, Satanism, the ancient heresy of Gnosticism and Doctor Strange? To truly understand the spiritual foundation of Marvel’s cosmology, one must first understand the influence of many comic book writers. These same influences were brought into the first iterations of Doctor Strange, beginning in 1961, when he was introduced as Dr. Droom, and then as Dr. Druid in 1976. Journey with us as we pull back the curtain further in Part 2 of Marvel & DC’s War on God to discover how the top movie franchises are continuing to indoctrinate and perpetuate Satanic lies to hundreds of millions of young people among their unsuspecting audience.”

A major point of this video is the story of Doctor Strange vs. Siseneg, which started in Marvel Premiere #13. Sise-Nig, Genesis backward, took both Dr. Strange and his enemy Baron Mordo on a journey through time, trying to add power to his already formidable grimoire of spells.  As they continued to move through time, they battled Shuma-Gorath, the chaos lord responsible for the death of Strange and Mordo’s teacher, the Ancient One.

The story ends with Sise-Nig heading to the literal dawn of time. Sise-Neg stands there in the nothingness, pulsing with the power of a thousand suns, and drops a truth bomb that would make Nietzsche weep. He realizes his plan to “improve” the cosmos is a fool’s errand. Why? Because after attaining total godhood, he figures out that humanity—with all its messy, flawed, beautiful chaos—is already the peak of perfection. A blinding flash of light, a roar that echoes through eternity, and a Big Bang that sends Strange and Mordo hurtling through the timestream like cosmic pinballs, sending them back to modern time. Mordo’s brain is short-circuited by seeing the fact of the creator, while Strange wonders if this was really the first Big Bang or a cosmic reset.

Stan Lee found out about this story and was pretty upset, but writer Steve Englehart and artist Frank Brunner scammed him. Take it from Brunner: “We had just completed Marvel Premiere #14-well, I had just completed the pencils, most of the art, but for some reason or another, nobody took notice of what we were doing. When the book came out, Stan finally got a hold of it, and I don’t know, somebody pointed it out, or he read it, and he wrote us a letter saying, “We can’t do God. You’re going to have to print in the letters column a retraction saying this is not the God, this is just a god.” Steve and I said, “Oh, come on! This is the whole point of the story! If we did that retraction of God, this is meaningless!” So, Steve happened to be on his way to Texas for something, this is when we were in California, and we cooked up this plot-we wrote a letter from a Reverend Billingsley in Texas, a fictional person, saying that one of the children in his parish brought him the comic book, and he was astounded and thrilled by it, and he said, “Wow, this is the best comic book I’ve ever read.” And we signed it “Reverend so-and-so, Austin, Texas”-and when Steve was in Texas, he mailed the letter so it had the proper postmark. Then we got a phone call from Roy: “Hey, about that retraction, I’m going to send you a letter, and instead of the retraction, I want you to print this letter.” And it was our letter! We printed our letter!”

Thanks to CBR, here’s the letter:

“Dear Mr. Lee,

The other evening at our Church’s Christmas social, a young member of my congregation showed me a comic book you presented, Marvel Premiere (#14, March). He told me it dealt with God.

I borrowed the comic from him, thinking that I would find another denigration of our Lord in the manner so fashionable these days. However, after reading this issue, I must commend you on the taste and perception you, your editor, and your writer showed in handling a very difficult subject. It is magazines such as yours that truly perform the Lord’s work and open new eyes to His majesty.

I have since recommended Marvel Premiere to many of my congregation and friends. Thank you, Mr. Lee, for your fine work.

Rev. David Billingsley

8794 East-West Highway

Denton, Texas”

As Englehart was a member of the OTO, a group founded by Aleister Crowley, you can only imagine how this movie views him.

This goes into the origins of Dr. Droom, who first appeared in Amazing Adventures #1 and was seen as a sort of trial run for Dr. Strange. Anthony Droom is referred to as a psychiatrist, lifelong learner and physician and is independently wealthy, as all comic book heroes should be. He meets a lama in Tibet who transforms him into an Asian man — the film claims he looks exactly like Crowley — and gives him the magic he needs to protect Earth.

Over a year later, artist Steve Ditko — who inked Jack Kirby’s five Droom stories — approached Stan Lee with a new magic character called Mr. Strange.

As for Druid, according to Wikipedia, he “is often ranked amongst the worst Avengers members, worst leaders of the team, and often considered a B-list hero. The original origin story for the character has also been cited as problematic due to the race-swapping aspect.”

Also: Dr. Druid is relatively unknown, despite what this film would have you believe.

As with all Good Fight Ministry docs, this goes all in on Gnosticism and then details how The Scarlet Witch is the Whore of Babylon. Strangely — pardon that pun — I don’t see Dr. Stephen Strange looking like Jack Parsons, but I did appreciate this getting him in, as well as Marjorie Cameron showing up in other films by these folks.

Between the child sacrifice allegations leveled at Crowley (which many historians dispute) and his rumored Nazi ties (despite his work for British Intelligence), the history of Dr. Strange’s influences is just as murky as the Dark Dimension itself. I liked how they got across Ditko as a drug-addled lunatic staring into space and dreaming up comics; nothing is further from the truth.

Whether you see Strange as a harmless psychedelic hero or a gateway to the OTO, one thing is clear: the history of the Sorcerer Supreme is far weirder than any movie has dared to show.

You can watch this on Fawesome.

JESUS IS COMING SOON… and you need to know the end time signs exploding NOW IN ISRAEL! It was the beginning of the end! No one knew when it would happen…Advent II – a chilling, realistic account of the end times – a foretaste of history’s incredible climax! This film vividly and dramatically shows how Israel – The Fig Tree – has blossomed, and the end times hour is near…and that Jesus will come in this generation!

I found this on Occult Demon Casette, and man, I want more people to watch it. Deep within the Middle East, Morris Cerullo explains how the end of the world will occur there. This is interspersed with imagery of people disappearing, like a family looking for their grandmother who has gone to Heaven and left her clothes behind. 

There are then news reports of 747 pilots vanishing mid-flight and massive automobile collisions caused by driverless cars. It gets better — we see a cemetery that has been shambled, with graves literally burst open as if a giant magnet in the sky pulled the bodies toward Paraadise.

Cerullo was a Pentecostal evangelist who traveled extensively around the world for his ministry and hosted a TV show, Victory Today. In 1990, he purchased the assets of Jim Bakker’s PTL ministry and the Heritage USA theme park.

This stars Don Galloway, who played Sgt. Ed Brown on Ironside), Claudette Nevins (from The Mask?), Tracie Savage (young Lizzie Borden from the TV movie?) and Israeli singer Irit Bulka.

I really wish there were more of these movies. This has a SOV look that I love and is genuinely frightening. Cerullo explains that in the Bible, the Fig Tree symbolizes the nation of Israel. He points to the rebirth of the country in 1948 and the reclamation of Jerusalem in 1967 as the blossoming” of that tree. Based on the Biblical promise that this generation shall not pass away until all is fulfilled, Cerullo argues that those who saw Israel become a nation will see the second coming of Christ.

The reason this film feels so strange today is the contrast between the sunny, 80s suburban family life and the sudden, silent transition into a world of martial law, looting and supernatural disappearances. It’s the ultimate What If story, told with the absolute conviction that it wasn’t a story at all, but instead a warning of what might happen about this time tomorrow evening.

You can watch this on YouTube.

There are supposed to be seven of these; I’ve been through three, so I am ready for what comes next. 

This time around, here’s what’s on the menu: 

• Anti-Christ Themes: The documentary contends that these media franchises normalize or promote anti-Christ themes.

• Glorification of Occult and Violence: The series alleges that storylines often glorify violence, the occult, blasphemy and sexual perversion.

• Satanic Imagery: It investigates whether comics and movies reframe Satan or demonic figures as heroes or saviors.

• Influencing Children: The film argues that leading writers use manipulation and occult themes to alter how children view the God of the Bible.

• Occult Roots: The series explores the influence of occult figures like Aleister Crowley on popular media, specifically in relation to characters like Doctor Strange.

I was wondering when these guys would get to Grant Morrison and Garth Ennis. After all, Morrison openly admits to practicing occult rituals to fuel his work. The documentary views this not as creative quirkiness, but as a literal attempt to use Sigil Magick through comic panels to alter the consciousness of young readers.

You can only imagine what they thought of Preacher.

And wow, that reveal in Avengers #31 that — in the words of We Got This Covered — when Tony Stark was investigating the mysterious appearance of a million-year-old Iron Man helmet, he teams up with a talking snake, who’s actually Mephisto, the Marvel Universe’s devil. The talking snake reveals to the hero that Howard Stark made a deal with him: if Howard was to become the most intelligent man on the planet, he would give his son to the devil.”

It’s hard to tell whether the stories in this are What If or Elseworld stories, and so many of the upsetting tales have been retconned. This also recycles a lot of the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby hate. 

The series often takes a hard line on the creators, suggesting that the Jewish-Christian roots of early comics were a facade for deeper occult interests. By recycling the hate, the film attempts to show that the industry’s foundation was flawed from the start, moving from Kirby’s Celestials (space gods) to the overt Satanism of modern runs.

You can watch this on Fawesome.

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.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.

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, and then 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.

You can watch this on YouTube.