Based on Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1969 novel, this tale of time travel and alien abduction finds Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks, The Sugarland Express, The Amityville Horror) finds himself unstuck in time. Traveling back and forth to random points within his existence, Pilgrim experiences his life in scattered fashion, such as what it was like to grow up, the firebombing of Dresden and a surreal adventure on a distant planet named Tralfamadore at some point in the future.
Praised by Vonnegut himself, Slaughterhouse-Five was directed by George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Thoroughly Modern Millie). The author would say, “I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen. I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book.”
For horror fans, keep your eyes open for Gilmer McCormick as Lily Rumfoord (she played Sister Margaret in Silent Night, Deadly Night), Roberts Blossom as Wild Bob Cody (he was Ezra Cobb in Deranged and Old Man Marley in Home Alone), Sorrell Booke as Lionel Merble (he was in Devil Times Five as well as more famously playing Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard) and Kevin Conway as Roland Weary (he’s Conrad Straker the Funhouse Barker in The Funhouse).
Plus, Valerie Perrine plays the Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack, along with Perry King (like I need an excuse to mention TV’s Riptide) and Holly Near (The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart) as Pilgrim’s children.
Although Vonnegut’s renown refrain, “So it goes”, appears over a hundred times in the novel, it does not occur, even once, in the movie version. However, he did base the story on his own experiences as a prisoner of war during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division on December 22, 1944. Vonnegut also lived through the bombing of Dresden, an experience that informs the entire first part of this movie.
The character of Howard W. Campbell Jr. in this movie is also the subject of another Vonnegut novel which was turned into a movie, Mother Night. Nick Nolte played Campbell in that movie. Also, the character Elliot Rosewater, who Billy’s mom talks to in the hospital, is the title character in Vonnegut’s 1965 novel, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, and would be played by Ken Hudson Campbell in 1999’s Breakfast of Champions.
This is a film that I’ve always wanted to see, so I really appreciated the opportunity that the new Arrow Video release afforded me.
Their new blu ray release features a brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, produced by Arrow Video exclusively for this release. Plus, you get audio commentary by author and critic Troy Howarth, an appreciation from author and critic Kim Newman and interviews from Perry King, Rocky Lang, Robert Crawford, Jr. and film music historian Daniel Schweiger. Obviously, Arrow puts astounding care into everything they release and this is no different. You can order it right here.
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O Trapalhao no Planalto dos Macacos translates to A Tramp on the Plateau of the Apes and is part of a 1970’s series of Brazilian comedy films where The Tramps found their way to all sorts of situations and eventually other movies, such as The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars.
The Tramps are Didi, Dede, Mussum and Zacharias. Throughout the movie, they get in all manner of hijinks, starting when Didi and Dede are mistaken for jewel thieves. This leads them to a hot air balloon which brings them to a hillside where apes speak and treat men as slaves. Kind of like, you know, Planet of the Apes.
There’s even a Nova character, named Hula, and a Forbidden Zone, which kind of makes no sense as the rest of humanity hasn’t ended yet. That said, you should pretty much shut your brain off when watching this movie. It’s a silly Brazilian movie for kids that was made on a low budget and is all about making you laugh. It’s also worth noting that the human is very much Brazilan, so some of it won’t translate.
Toho Studios had Godzilla. 20th Century Fox Studios had Pierre Boulle’s apes. And the American studio was kicking the Big Green One’s ass in the Pacific Rim box office. So what does Toho Studios do? They created their own race of sentient humanoid-ape aliens to introduce into the series.
Toho Studios celebrated the Great Green One’s 20th anniversary in style with this everything-plus-the-kitchen sink monster romp featuring the return of Anguirus from Ishiro Honda’s first Godzilla sequel, 1955’s Godzilla Rides Again, a new monster in the form of the good kaiju dog-deity, King Caesar, and a James Bond-inspired Interpol superspy to defeat the aliens.
And if that wasn’t enough: they brought on the apes.
Toho’s new breed of intelligent apes, who hail from the “Third Planet from the Black Hole,” built a secret, underground high-tech base in Okinawa. And they have the ability to build robots. And they construct Mechagodzilla, a robotic doppelganger of Godzilla equipped with a wide array of weapons and flight capabilities.
Oh, yeah. And these apes enjoy their wine. And they can morph into human form.
The fun begins as an Oriental priestess has a vision of Japan’s destruction by a giant monster. Cue to a spelunker who discovers a chunk of never before seen metal in a cave. A subsequent archaeological excavation to find more of the metal unearths a chamber with a biblical-like prophecy of a forthcoming battle between huge monsters on the Earth.
Of course that errant hunk of metal is the work of The Simians and was used to construct Mechagodzilla to spearhead their conquest of Earth.
Oh, yes. The good ‘ol days of UHF-TV holiday marathons with ‘ol Kong and ‘Zilla.
As crazy as it seems, it wasn’t 20th Century Fox who sued over this—but Universal Studios. When the film was released in the U.S in March of 1977 under the title Godzilla vs. the Bionic Monster, Universal took issue over the use of the word “Bionic,” as they owned the rights to The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series. That led to the title that we U.S kiddies saw it under: Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster.
Keeping with their “borrowing” of the 20th Century Fox franchise, another race of Toho aliens from the third black hole planet returned in the 1975 sequel, Terror of Mechagodzilla. This time the aliens “aped” the underground disfigured mutants from Beneath the Planet of the Apes—and hid their disfigurement under rubber masks. Oh, and they brought along another, new monster-partner: the aquatic, non-mechanical Titanosaurus. The Mechagodzilla sequel would prove to be the last of the films until the Big Green One’s 30th anniversary started a new wave of Godzilla films.
If you must have Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla in your collection, there’s the 1988 restored Japanese cut with English audio on a 1988 VHS, a 2004 DVD with both English and Japanese audio, and a 2019 Showa-era Blu-ray issued by the Criterion Collection alongside 15 other Godzilla films released from 1954 to 1975. Terror of Mechagodzilla also appears in that collection, along with its three singular DVD forms issued in 1998, 2002, and 2007.
The epic battle! This stuff rocks no matter how old you are!
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Matt Reeves is known for the American remake of Let Me In as well as Cloverfield. He’s had pretty great success at making Apes films, as he was behind both this film and 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes. He also wrote the fun popcorn flick Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Oh yeah — and he also created the TV show Felicity.
Ten years later, a group of people in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of the Simian Flu epidemic that’s wiping out humanity, all while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his tribe of apes located in the Muir Woods.
The humans are led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke, the remake of Pet Sematary) and they accidentally encroach into ape territory in search of a hydroelectric dam. Caesar’s son Blue Eyes and his friend Ash encounter the humans and Carver injures the latter. Koba, a bonobo scarred by human tests, urges Caesar (again, Andy Serkis) to go to war with the humans. However, Malcolm, his girlfriend Ellie (Keri Russell) and son Alexander (Kodi Smit-McPhee, who was in The Road and played Nightcrawler in the later X-Men movies) become friends with the apes, even treating Caesar’s wife Cornelia’s illness.
Judy Greer, who played that role, has a husband who is a huge Planet of the Apes fan. They had a chimp husband-and-wife cake topper at their wedding, while Planet of the Apes and Rise of the Planet of the Apes played at the bar.
Dreyfus (Gary Oldman), another human leader, takes up arms, Koba goes into action. He sets the ape settlement on fire, nearly kills Caesar and blames the humans. When Ash refuses to betray Caesar’s teachings, Koba throws him to his death and locks up anyone loyal to their fallen leader.
War between ape and human is inevitable, even if Malcolm and his family save Caesar and nurse him back to health. Koba must fall, the first human army must be defeated and then the tribes of apes will be ready for the War for the Planet of the Apes.
Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver returned to write this film, joined by Marc Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Insurgent, The Wolverine).
I dig that the orangutan is named Maurice, which is a reference to Maurice Evans, who portrayed Dr. Zaius in the original films.
The ending is pretty great, too. Koba is left hanging from a ledge after being knocked down by Caesar. He tries to say that “Ape shall not kill ape,” but Koba has already broken that rule many, many times by killing Ash and other apes. Caesar declares that Koba is not an ape and kills him.
Well, let’s put it this way. I won’t have to go much further to find the worst movie I’ve seen this year.
Somehow, David Farrands went from writing Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myersand documentaries on things like Amityville and Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th and directing Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy to basically creating — to quote my friend Don Guarisco — “appalling fan-fiction movies inspired by real murders.” This follows up his 2019 film The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which had Hilary Duff as Sharon.
Here, Nicole Brown is played by Mena Suvari. Yes, Mena Suvari, who was once in films like American Pie, American Beauty and, umm, The Rage: Carrie 2. Even that last film is better than this. Imagine that sentence. Read it over again. Let that wash over you.
Taryn Manning, yes the same one who was in the band Boomkat and 8 Mile, she’s Faye Resnick who spends most of the movie doing blow and trying to make out with Nicole, as if no one is still alive and can sue everyone involved with this movie.
Agnes Bruckner, who was Anna Nicole in the movie called Anna Nicole, is Kris Kardashian. There’s also a guy — Trent Walker if you care — who plays Bruce Jenner and he looks nothing like him. His absence in one scene is referred to as “such a drag.” That’s the level of this film.
At one point, Nick Stahl was John Connor and the Yellow Bastard in Sin City, but here he’s Glen Rogers, the Casanova Killer and the Cross Country Killer who was rumored to have killed Nicole in the 2012 documentary My Brother the Serial Killer. Rogers’ brother Clay claimed that the suspect had met Nicole and was ready to take her down, claiming he was hired by O.J. Simpson to break into her home and steal everything he could, before telling her that, “You may have to kill the (word for a female dog so I can get this past Amazon filters when I post the review).”
Drew Roy, who was Jessie on Hannah Montana, is Ron Goldman. Bianca Brigitte VanDamme (yes, it’s his daughter) is Detective Leigh. Larry Zerner — yes, Shelly from Friday the 13th: Part III is here. And Gene Freeman, who was in Crossbreed, is O.J., who is mainly a ghost hovering over the film.
Speaking of ghosts, there’s an entire section of the film where Nicole is raised from her bed and begins getting tossed all over it like she’s Barbara Hershey in The Entity. I’m not making any of this up. This fact alone made me love what I had been hating up until this point.
I mean, how did this actually get made? How did Mena Suvari even get the gumption to ask for an executive producer credit on this mess? Why did I watch it? Why am I spending so much time writing about it now instead of going to bed?
So many questions!
O.J. note 1: The night of the Bronco chase, I was at a bar called Robert’s Roadside Inn and I’ve never heard such a rowdy bar get so quiet so fast. Seriously, some generations get the Kennedy Assassination and mine got O.J. and Al Cowlings in a slow-motion chase.
O.J. note 2: My theory is that Nicole and Ron were killed by a Predator, which are real creatures and our government created the movies as disinformation so that we wouldn’t know the terrors that exist in space. As out TV signals move slower into deep space, the Predators were looking for the ultimate human to hunt. And if you watched mid-70’s football, the perfect human male was probably O.J. Simpson. By the time they got to his house, he was long moved out and Nicole and Ron played the price. My theory, by the way, is not as insane as this movie.
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th-century plantation home for way less than it’s worth. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate, but of course, the former residents of the house haven’t left yet. Whoops! Looks like everyone is about to fight for their lives!
Shorter and more to the point: A young and deformed boy witnesses his mother’s death, which ensures that for the rest of his life, he will come back to take revenge on anyone who dares enter his property.
This movie follows the tried and true method of having actors like Terry Kiser (Bernie Lomax!), Michael Berryman (Pluto!) and Treat Williams (umm, Xander Drax?) who draw the eye of those who recognize their names or love horror films, then carry the action with younger people.
Originally made as Maskerade, this has what you’re looking for, if what you’re looking for would be thirty-year-old actors playing college students who are all getting killed with an ax. I mean, sometimes, I am looking for that.
This is one of four movies on Mill Creek Entertainment’s Houses of Hell set. It’s an affordable way to get some scares that you may not have seen otherwise. Plus, you get a free code to save these movies digitally on Mill Creek’s MovieSPREE! site. For more information, check out their site.
A group of ghost hunters from a nationally syndicated TV show called Sinister Sites arrive for their latest assignment – the mysterious Wicker House in New Orleans. While the house has remained uninhabited since a series of murders in the 1950’s, locals know to stay away. Could this be the last episode of the show or can they make it out alive?
Director Jeffrey Scott Lando is a veteran of horror and SF made for cable movies like Haunted High, Roboshark and Decoys 2: Alien Seduction. He’s ably assisted by Corin Nemec as Quentin French, the host of the show, along with Charisma Carpenter as Heather Burton, a psychic.
This was written by Anthony C. Ferrante — who is behind all of the Sharknado movies — and Jay Frasco. Also — if you see the DVD cover that I posted, please know that the creature on it has nothing to do with the actual movie. It doesn’t even appear in it.
House of Bones originally aired on the SyFy Network on January 16, 2010. If you like SyFy movies, you’re in luck with this set.
This is one of four movies on Mill Creek Entertainment’s Houses of Hell set. It’s an affordable way to get some scares that you may not have seen otherwise. Plus, you get a free code to save these movies digitally on Mill Creek’s MovieSPREE! site. For more information, check out their site.
Well, break out the K-Y and the Trojans as we spin through a rip in the space-time continuum to a planet—lost somewhere beyond the planet Porno—where we meet the evil apes Dr. Anus and General Jerko and the peace-loving ape Cocknelius. Where’s Flesh Gordon when you need ’em? Hell, where are Jess Franco and Jean Rollin when you need ’em?
If there are any films that make the de Ossorio hack job Revenge from Planet Ape look like an Oscar Winner, it’s these behind-the-beaded curtain ape homages.
American exploitation filmmaker and self-professed “schlockmeister,” Larry Buchanan, he the king of the day-for-night shoots of our beloved trash-classics Curse of the Swamp Creature, The Eye Creatures, It’s Alive!, Mars Needs Women, and Zontar, the Thing from Venus dreamed up this sexploitation variation on Planet of the Apes crossed with Tarzan. The story concerns a sexy anthropologist who embarks on an expedition to find her missing anthropologist husband and discovers a tribe of evolved apes who engage in sex and rape and enjoy their soft-core nudity. Even by Buchanan’s standards, this ape romp is terminally weird. Weirder than his Jim Morrison flick Down on Us, you ask? Yes!
Okay. Let’s get this over and done with: When Ang Lee received worldwide acclaim with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the porn industry pumped out a knockoff: Crouching Penis, Hidden Vagina. Stanley Kurbrick’s Spartacus became Spurtacus. Even Steven Spielberg wasn’t immune: E.T became the E-Three: The Extra Testicle, and he got another porn makeover with Shaving Ryan’s Parts. And you can probably guess the source materials for Big Trouble in Little Vagina, Ram-ohh, Romancing the Bone, and Womb Raider. There’s even a Marvel sex-romp: XXX-Men. And who can forget Saturday Night Beaver?
Thus, with the release of Tim Burton’s 2001 Planet of the Apes-reboot, it was inevitable the adult film industry would respond with a series of sexploitation rips. As with the present-day Asylum/SyFy Channel mockbusters we know today, this first film in the “sex apes” sweepstakes takes no chances: it lifts its plot and scenes wholesale from the 1968 original—with the ubiquitous, comical-character name changes (Dr. Anus and Cocknelius) expected in a porn-parody flick.
In the interview vignettes for the DVD release of 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, James Franco angered the original film series’ fans when he made light of the groundbreaking John Chambers-makeup work and commented: “their mouths didn’t move,” as if insulting the original films was a smart way to upsell the green screen-motion capture apes of our post-Burton simian world. It’s obvious that James never saw Planet of the Babes, with its apparent, pull-over gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan masks. Does Planet of the Babes make Buchanan’s ape romp look good? Yes. IsPlanet of the Babes more entertaining that Rise? You better believe it.
(You Tube had a 30 minute edit of the film with all the bad stuff (GOOD STUFF!) blurred out and it has since been pulled down. So Google it at your own peril if you absolutely must.)
Playmate of the Apes (2002)
If you had a Showtime or Cinemax subscription—and suffered from insomnia—chances are you saw this New Jersey-shot sex clone written by and starring adult actress and B-Movie stalwart Debbie Rochon released a mere seven months after Tim Burton’s 2001 remake hit the big screen.
Misty Mundae, aka Sadie Lane, aka American actress Erin Brown (she’s starred in a combined 87 adult films and low-budget B-Movies since her 1997 debut), stars as Commander Gaylor, one of three female astronauts—including Debbie Rochon as Dr. Cornholeous—who crash land on a distant planet populated by talking, horny apes led by the gorilla Generals Jerko and Lade. When the starbabes meet a human-friendly lesbian ape, Dr. Kweera, and her human jungle-woman subject (read: Nova), the ensuing lesbian lust threatens ape society.
Also known as Babes in Kong Land, this shot-in-Cincinnati ape rip is actually a rip off of the Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, and John Saxon borefest, Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983), only with sex and apes added. A TV repairman, who sidelines as a mad scientist, tests his new invention and accidentally transports himself to a planet where Amazonian women eschew men into “The Forbidden Zone” and bed with talking apes. Keen eyes weaned on the lowest-budget of the low-budget B-Movies will recognize Julie Strain (Psycho Cop Returns, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Beverly Hills Cop II, Battle Queen 2020) and Monique Gabrielle (Jim Wynorski’s Transylvania Twist, 976-Evil II, Munchie).
You can learn more about the film’s production courtesy of our interview with the film’s director, Eric Eichelberger.
And on the lighter side of ape parodies . . .
The off-spring of ‘90s Gen-X’ers were first exposed to Planet of the Apes by way of a Season 7 episode of The Simpsons starring actor Troy McClure cast in a musical version of Planet of the Apes entitled Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!. Troy sings the musical number “Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius” and serenades the Statue of Liberty with the lyric: “Oh my Gosh, I was wrong! It was Earth all along!” It’s the greatest ape homage, ever. Well, until Robot Chicken broke out the G.I Joes. . . .
Did you know there were three missing scenes from Planet of the Apes ‘68? Well the stop-motion sketch comedy television series Robot Chicken, which appeared as part of the adult-oriented nighttime programming block Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network, recreated that “missing footage”:
Now, if someone would come up with stop-motion G.I Joe and Barbie porn. . . .
And be sure to check out our linked-up “Ape Week” wrap-up of all the ape movies we reviewed this week with our “Ape Week Ends: Disney’s Planet of the Apes.” Oh, and this piece from Slate will hook you up with the rest of ape parodies from the like of The Muppets, the animated FOX series, The Critic, and a few others.
Many thanks to you, the loyal B&S About Movies’ readers for making this one of our most popular-visited posts! Keep those VHS decks runnin’!
“Hey, R.D., you forgot to mention Roberto Mauri’s Eva, the Savage Venus from 1968. Sometimes ‘Eve’ is used instead of Eva.”
Uh, okay. It’s really not that racy or erotic, but consider it mentioned.
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After one movie — 2008’s The Escapist — Rupert Wyatt was picked to direct this blockbuster remake. It did pretty well, but his career took a bit of a hit this year when the film Captive State kind of disappeared.
This is more a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes than the original film, as a brain repair technique gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee named Caesar, who leads an ape uprising.
Will Rodman (James Franco) is a scientist at the San Francisco biotech company Gen-Sys. Thanks to the viral-based drug ALZ-112 — which is being tested on chimpanzees — he’s close to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, which his father (John Lithgow) suffers from.
One of the chimps in testing — Bright Eyes, named for Taylor’s nickname in the original film — goes wild in her cage and is put down, but they learn that she just gave birth to a son who is named Caesar. He’s inherited his mother’s intelligence as he’s been exposed to the drug inside the womb.
While the drug helps his father for some time, he becomes resistant to it. A neighbor attacks the dad while he’s confused and Caesar defends him, earning him a trip to the San Bruno Primate Shelter where he’s bullied by a chimp named Rocket and Dodge Landon (Tom Felton, who was Draco in the Harry Potter movies), the abusive head guard whose father (Brian Cox) manages the animal preserve.
As Caesar rises to the top of the primates, finally freeing the apes at the shelter and the San Francisco Zoo. Soon, he has run into the forest and a chance at freedom.
Andy Serkis is pretty amazing as Caesar and the effects are great. I prefer the original films, but it seems like enough people enjoyed this to lead to two sequels.
An adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, this movie is all about Wilbur Whateley (Jeffery Combs, Re-Animator, The Frighteners) as he tries to find the Necronomicon, an ancient, diabolical manuscript that will help him open a doorway to a dimension inhabited by unspeakable creatures known as the Old Ones.
Otherwise known as The Darkest Evil and Witches, this first played on the SyFy Channel on December 13, 2009.
In Louisiana, a single mother delivers a baby boy — and a monster — in the cursed Whateley House. Ten years later, Dr. Henry Armitage (Sean Stockwell!) and his assistant, Professor Fay Morgan (Sarah Lieving, who shows up in plenty of this director’s films) discover that every single copy of the Necronomicon is missing page 751.
Oh yeah — the Black Brotherhood has also summoned the gatekeeper of the ancient ones, Yog-Sothoth, to open the portal to the walls beyond sleep. Meanwhile, Professor Walter Rice (Griff Furst, who was in the remake of The Magnificent Seven) tries to translate the book. And oh yeah — Lavina’s son, Wilbur Whateley(Combs), is aging quickly and needs the missing page to save himself.
Written and directed by Leigh Scott, who created The Baron Trump Adventures and wrote several movies based on The Wizard of Oz, this film has a pretty great cast and moves quickly enough.
Nearly all of the various symbols and diagrams shown in this film come from the “Simon” version of the Necronomicon. Although Lovecraft insisted that the book was pure invention — it came to him in a dream and he allowed other authors to refer to it and use it in their stories — it’s not a real book.
That hasn’t stopped many from claiming that it was, with Lovecraft himself sometimes getting letters from fans asking about it. Several of them pranked large university libraries by adding it to card catalogs and even requesting it from large libraries like the Vatican.
The Simon book actually has little to no connection to Lovecraft. After a limited edition hardback printing, the paperback version of this book has never gone out of print, selling more than 800,000 copies. I mean, I have one. It’s right next to The Satanic Bible and Hollywood Babylon on my shelf of mystic related works. The tagline for this book states that it could be “potentially, the most dangerous Black Book known to the Western World.”
The book deviates from Lovecraft’s intent to have the Ancient Ones be forces beyond good and evil. The idea that mankind is locked in a war between opposing forces comes from the Judeo-Christian beliefs inserted into the Cthulu mythos by author August Derleth.
There’s also a section of the intro given over to Richard Grant’s theory, as espoused in his book The Magical Revival, that there was an unconscious union between Aleister Crowley and Lovecraft. In short, they drew on the same occult forces from different paths: Crowley through actual rites, Lovecraft through the dreams that inspired his stories. Grant goes on to claim that the Necronomicon exists as an astral book as part of the Akashic records and can be accessed through both ritual magic or in dreams.
There’s also a 1978 Necronomicon, edited by George Hay with an introduction by Colin Wilson, that was supposedly created from a computer analysis of a discovered “cipher text” by Dr. John Dee, the man who coined the term British Empire. He was an intensely religious Christian that studied sorcery, astrology and Hermetic philosophy, all with the goal of communicating with Enochian angels, so that he could learn the universal language of creation and achieve what he referred to as the pre-apocalyptic unity of mankind.
Anyways, back to the Simon version. Two members of the Magickal Childe scene — a New York City book store that was the major focal point for American magic/magick from the 70’s until the 90’s — Khem Caigan (the Necronomicon‘s illustrator) and Alan Cabal claimed that the book is a known hoax. My theory has always been that Peter Levenda, an occult author who wrote the book Unholy Alliance, is Simon, as the copyright notice for this book is in his name. Ironically, the name of Levenda’s latest book? Dunwich.
This is one of four movies on Mill Creek Entertainment’s Houses of Hell set. It’s an affordable way to get some scares that you may not have seen otherwise. Plus, you get a free code to save these movies digitally on Mill Creek’s MovieSPREE! site. For more information, check out their site.
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