Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism (1989)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herbert P. Caine is the pseudonym of a frustrated academic and genre movie fan in Pennsylvania. You can read his blog at https://imaginaryuniverseshpc.blogspot.com. Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism hits all the markers of a Christian scare film: warnings about dark forces aiming to get you and above all your children, testimony […]
Overlords of the U.F.O. (1976)
In the days before cable TV and streaming, which are filled with as much paranormal content as you can handle, movies like this about U.F.O.s were few and far between. And the commercials that advertised them were terrifying when I saw them on TV. The one and only film directed by G. Brook Stanford and […]
In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973)
If you ever want to get depressed, realize that sometimes your heroes need to get day jobs. For example, Orson Welles may have made the best movie ever first time up to bat, but he still had to appear in exploitation-level films, pseudo-science docs and play a Transformer in his last role. Rod Serling is […]
Chariots of the Gods (1970)
In the alternate universe that was 1970, the German film Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (based on Erich von Däniken’s book Chariots of the Gods?) made $26 million at the box office and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film starts by discussing how native tribes found cargo from planes and began worshipping […]
In Search of Dracula (1974)
When I was a kid, my dad had a paperback shelf filled with paranormal books that I spied in fear. One of those books was Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally’s In Search of Dracula. Between that tome and the ad in Warren comics for a necklace filled with dirt from Dracula’s grave, I lived in mortal […]
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