APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: The Black Cat (1934)
The first of eight films to pair Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, this has so much less to do with the Edgar Allan Poe story and so much more to do with Aleister Crowley, in particular a series of rituals and did with Betty May Loveday. Loveday was a model, a dancer, an artist and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: Chemical Wedding (2008)
Simon Calow (Four Weddings and a Funeral) is Professor Oliver Haddo, a Cambridge scholar who is reprogrammed by a virtual reality machine into becoming the avatar for the spirit of Aleister Crowley. Now, more than fifty years after his death, Crowley begins his search for a scarlet woman to be part of his next working. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: Moonchild (1974)
Moonchild was an Aleister Crowley book about white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians fighting over an unborn child. That book also contained a series of magic rituals that would incarnate an archetypal divine feminine named Babalon. If that sounds familiar to the more occult-minded out there, it led to […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: Lucifer Rising (1972, 1980)
Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising is as much a ritual as it is a document of the counterculture of the mid 60s in California. He was influenced by — as always — Aleister Crowley and his poem “Hymn to Lucifer.” Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act? Without its climax, death, what savour hath Life? an […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
While you can say that this is but an 11-minute movie, this Kenneth Anger directed, edited and photographed work of art — complete with Moog soundtrack by Mick Jagger — is one of the films that started midnight movies. Assembled from what remains of the first version of Lucifer Rising, this movie strobes your mind […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
Kenneth Anger is a near-daily part of my life. He’s a nexus point who has opened my mind to older film, to the power of gossip, to Crowley and to the art that film can be. His first words in the seminal Hollywood Babylon, quoting Crowley, inspires me: “Every man and every woman is a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11
Welcome back to the April Movie Thon. April 11: Mr. Crowley — The number eleven symbolizes the union of the Microcosmos and the Macrocosmos, as the sum of the 5 and the 6, being the 5 related to the Pentagram and the 6 related to the Hexagram. So, 11 joins the meanings of both the […]
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