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The REAL Story Behind The Omen (1976) And The 7 Most Terrifying Omens You Should Definitely Know About

You don't get much irony in horror.

You get buckets of fake blood, you get lashings of sexism with subtle notes of transphobia, and you have dozens of plot holes to get twisted up in. But The Omen (1976) in a very dark, very deathy way, was ironic.

Somehow a film about the rise of the Antichrist - AKA the end of the world - would be accompanied by wild animal attacks, sudden deaths, and even a decapitation. Yep, The Omen was, well, an omen. In fact, this cult classic horror flick is known as one of the most cursed films to date as a result of the story put to the screen and the events that took place behind it.

But the infamous tales surrounding this movie is not the only time an omen has preceded horrific events. In fact, we've been searching for signs of what is to come for millennia. Some of these signs still haunt our darkest nightmares.

You need to look out for them.

Today we will be determining just how accurate the portrayal of The Omen is to the prophecies of the Antichrist, the spooky events that took place behind the camera, and any other signs of death or misfortune you should be wary of.

*crow caws in the distance*

First, let's recap The Omen

The Bible is undoubtedly the best-selling book of all time. And, just like many other chart-topping hits, it’s been turned into a whole host of films. Each has suffered its own onslaught of criticism for its unique take on scripture.

The Omen is one of them.

But The Omen doesn’t follow Jesus’ life story, nor does it CGI various jungle animals onto Noah’s ark. It follows the Antichrist from birth to demise across 3 films (including a made-for-TV Canadian movie which we’ve all agreed to not talk about). It charts the rise of Damien as he develops his paranormal powers and loosely fulfils the prophecies set out for the Devil’s spawn.

Our story starts at his mysterious birth: after a woman has a stillborn child, her husband swaps it for a child whose mother died at birth. When Damien is just 5 years old strange things begin to occur. Animals act strangely around him, various aggressive dogs appear - oh, and Damien’s nanny rudely interrupts his birthday party by throwing herself out of a window with a noose around her neck.

Enter a new nanny who is less Mary Poppins and more Mary Most-definitely-a-satanist-who-wants-to-protect-Damien-and-overthrow-Christ. Things get worse (yes, it’s possible) when everyone around Damien begins to slowly work out that he may or may not be the Antichrist and in turn get killed in assorted horrific - but also mildly hysterical - ways.

It’s the father of Damien (the adoptive one, not the actual Devil) who leads the investigation into his origins. He traces back Damien’s origins back to his dead mother’s grave. Turns out she was a jackal.

Enter the Antichrist expert - he gives Damien’s father the low-down on dealing with demonic children, and explains that the naughty-step is simply not enough. He has to be killed on hallowed ground with a collection of knives I’m pretty sure I saw on Antiques Roadshow. He takes the Daggers of Megiddo and his infant son into a local church, forces him onto the altar and prepares to kill him.

The police shoot him before he can do this.

The following films chase up the rest of Damien’s short but eventful life and include: one sex scene, one King Herod-inspired ‘kill all babies born on this day cause one of ‘em is Jesus’, and even a last minute cameo by Christ himself.

Unlike most horror franchises, however, The Omen is not based on some paranormal investigation or a forgotten urban legend - the story inspiring it is kept very close to the hearts of many around the world. It’s this troubling premise which makes this film one of the most terrifying to date. Question is, just how accurate is The Omen to the actual end of days forecasted by Christians?

How accurate was The Omen to actual prophecies regarding the Antichrist?

Like most things mentioned in The Bible and other religious texts, things are typically vague or lost in translation. This means many concepts and stories have been rewritten and rethought in numerous different ways.

The Omen kinda had to connect the dots.

But there are a few defining features of Damien and his life story which are uncomfortably close to what might just be the apocalypse…

First, the Antichrist is supposed to be born as the opposite of Christ: he is not born of God and a virgin, but of Satan and a ‘whore’. Whilst The Omen appears to be slut-shaming a jackal, we do know Damien is the spawn of Satan. His animal mother (which is referenced later in the franchise when Damien is discovered to have Jackal bone marrow cells) is a reference to Jackals’ biblical presence as tricksters.

The Omen also sticks to the dominant line of thought on Damien’s career path. The Antichrist is mentioned 3 times in the New Testament and follows the end of the world, something we see in the dying moments of the final film: the Book of Revelation and other prophetic texts claim he will rule for 7 years before being defeated by Christ/Angel Gabriel’s army. He will be a tyrant, a trickster, rise to power, and (perhaps) claim he is a messiah.

The Omen is an abridged version of this. Damien is at one point a CEO and then an ambassador to the US before he sees an image of Christ when he gives out his last breath.

But here’s the thing.

Everyone has a different take on how the Antichrist will take his first steps to almighty power before being dethroned by the JC. And everyone has a different take on who it is.

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the Pope (I’m pretty sure all of the popes have been accused of being the Antichrist), Prince William… Type in a celebrity name - literally any celebrity name - and the word ‘antichrist’ into Google and there will be “proof” of Kate Hudson using satanic subliminal messaging in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. By all accounts The Omen is just another version of how the Antichrist could rise and fall.

The Omen does include a few other suitably-satanic references: the Daggers of Megiddo don’t actually exist according to lore, but are associated with the end of the world. Megiddo is the site of the final battle between the Antichrist and Jesus Christ as mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Its Greek name was even ‘Armageddon’.

We also see throughout the franchise a satanist plot to ensure the Antichrist grows up safely and is ready to do his dark bidding. Modern theorists claim the Antichrist will arrive hand-in-hand with a satanic plot to overturn the Christian faith.

The Omen effectively charts out how the world might end. But for many people working on the film, they were experiencing hell in their own way.

What really happened on the set of The Omen?

An omen is defined as a phenomenon that predicts and hints at the future, or signals a change. The birth and rise of the Antichrist probably fits the definition as it signals the Second Coming of Christ, Judgement Day, and numerous other events anticipated by Christians across the globe. It is an omen for the end of the world.

Hell, it’s the ultimate omen. It doesn’t get more omen-ny than that.

But in some weird omen-ception, The Omen was an omen for the people producing the film. *squints in confusion*

Basics, it is now known as one of the most cursed movie sets ever. And here’s why.

Gregory Peck, the father of Damien, allegedly canceled his seat on a flight that would crash and kill everyone on board. When he did finally get on a plane and flew to England his plane was struck by lightning. The film’s writer experienced the same thing on a separate flight days after Peck’s.

The producers and some actors also nearly attended a restaurant one evening when it was destroyed in an explosion. One of these same producers, Mace Neufeld, also happened to check out early from a hotel in London which was blown up by the IRA shortly after.

The special effects designer witnessed traumatic events mirroring the movie far too closely, too: his wife was decapitated in a car crash, a similar event to one we see in the film. Even an animal trainer used for a scene from which Baboons act wildly and crazed around Damien was killed after being mauled by a tiger.

Yeah.

It’s all very ommeny.

But what are the other omens you should be looking out for?

The 7 omens you should most definitely be watching out for

#1 - Crows

All films or TV shows that feature death or war also feature crows. Their fateful cawing has historically been an omen of misfortune or death and is used for foreshadowing as obvious as the colour black. A single crow is an omen of bad luck - a murder of crows (more than five) is an omen of death or illness for either you or someone you know.

In ancient times birds were common omens and it was the type of bird which signaled different positive and negative changes. Crows in particular were believed to be messengers between the mortal world and the afterlife. Witches were also believed to use crows to cast their death spells.

They have since gained a reputation for being cunning and intelligent creatures, much like the jackal mother of Damien in The Omen.

#2 - Owls

I told you - we are convinced birds bring death.

Much like crows, owls are very deathy. Walking under a tree and hear an owl hoot? You or a family member are gon’ die. One lands on your roof? Death is a-coming.

Owls are even historically believed to herald doom with one Roman Emperor - Antonius - dying after an owl was seen perched above his bedroom door. They are considered wise creatures according to ancient civilisations, as if they know something about the future we do not.

The Welsh, on the other hand, believed they bring fertility. If an owl hoot is heard by a pregnant woman she will have an easy labour.

#3 - Doppelgangers

According to German and Irish folklore, seeing an ‘exact replica’ of you born to different parents is a sign of your death. If your family members or your friends see one, beware of impending danger.

These ‘double-goers’ are considered evil twins in folklore. If you spoke to your doppelganger, they’d try and trick you and plan evil ideas in your mind.

Breton and Cornish folklore claim they are Ankou, servants of death himself who thus personify it.

#4 - Death Knocks Thrice

Let’s set the scene: you’ve just ordered a Nandos and you hear the knock at the door. But instead of a halloumi-topped beanie burger, you open the front door to no one.

Rather than a delicious meal you will soon experience death.

Irish, Scottish, and Native American communities follow this folklore and it is referenced in many different films including The Conjuring. The Perron family hear continuous knocking which comes in threes - the Warrens, however, claim it is a demonic entity or spirit mocking the holy trinity.

#5 - Phantom funerals

Funerals normally come after the omen of death, you know, when the actual ‘death’ part has occurred. But fake funerals led by ghosts are an omen of the death of a loved one. They will take the same place and same route of the actual funeral, however.

If you do see one, however, don’t look into the casket; otherwise, it’ll be your own.

(Dun dun duuuh)

It is believed they are sent by fairies who are infamous for causing mischief. A similar phenomenon, ‘the tolaeth before the coffin’, is when one hears the coffin making process or the funeral take place.

#6 - Solar eclipses

We now have the benefit of science and astrology to tell us that sometimes it gets really dark and really cold in the middle of the day. But way back when, the sun effectively disappearing for a few moments was rather more terrifying.

Ancient civilisations believed it was a warning from pissed off gods that they were going to exact some revenge and send some impending danger or death. Most cultures even believed a folkloric beast or native animal was eating the sun. In fact, that’s why many communities would bang pots or pans together during eclipses to scare away the demon doing it.

They are still considered a mysterious sign something bad is about to go down.

#7 - Black butterflies

We end on an omen I’m probably going to incorporate into my aesthetic for 2021. A black butterfly is considered to be a symbol of misfortune and death in some cultures and a positive sign for others. It could also equate to a less lethal ‘death’ - that is the death of a relationship or a project.

It can thus be considered an omen of renewal or rebirth. And lord knows we all need that for next year.

Have you ever seen an omen?

Let me know in a comment below.

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*flies away with the black butterflies*

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The Best Horror Movies to Stream

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Updated for October 2020

The world of streaming horror movies can be an overwhelming place.

Let’s say you’ve got your Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and HBO Max subscriptions all set and ready. Now you want to get terrified with the best horror movies you can find in time for Halloween. But there are so many options! What’s a horror addict to do?

Here you’ll find the master list. That’s right, we’ve hand-selected only the absolute best and most terrifying horror movies available on all the major streaming services and combined them here for your streaming (or screaming) pleasure.

Be sure to let us know if you make it through all 31!

Apostle

Available on: Netflix

Apostle comes from acclaimed The Raid director Gareth Evans and it’s his take on the horror genre. Spoiler alert: it’s a good one.

Dan Stevens stars as Thomas Richardson, a British man in the early 1900s who must rescue his sister, Jennifer, from the clutches of a murderous cult. Thomas successfully infiltrates the cult led by the charismatic Malcom Howe (Michael Sheen) and begins to ingratiate himself with the strange folks obsessed with bloodletting. Thomas soon comes to find that the object of the cult’s religious fervor may be more real than he’d prefer.

Apostle is a wild, atmospheric, and very gory good time.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Available on: Netflix

Some kids dream about being left overnight or even a week at certain locations to play, like say a mall or a Chuck E. Cheese. One place that no one wants to be left alone in, however, is a Catholic boarding school.

That’s the situation that Rose (Lucy Boynton) and Kat (Kiernan Shipka) find themselves in in the atmospheric and creepy The Blackcoat’s Daughter. When Rose and Kat’s parents are unable to pick them up for winter break, the two are forced to spend the week at their dingy Catholic boarding school. If that weren’t bad enough, Rose fears that she may be pregnant…oh, and the nuns might all be Satanists.

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The Blackcoat’s Daughter is an excellent debut directorial outing from Oz Perkins and another step on the right horror path for scream queens Shipka and Emma Roberts.

The Cabin in the Woods

Available on: Amazon Prime

A remote cabin in the woods is one of the most frequently occurring settings in all of horror. What better location for teenagers to be tormented by monsters, demons, or murderous hillbillies? Writer/Director Joss Whedon takes that tried and true setting and uses it as a jumping off points for one of the most successful metatextual horror movies in recent memory.

Like you would expect, The Cabin in the Woods features five college friends (all representing certain youthful archetypes, of course) renting a….well, a cabin in the woods. Soon things begin to go awry in a very traditional horror movie way. But then The Cabin in the Woods begins doling out some of the many tricks it has up its sleeve. This is a fascinating, very funny, and yet still creepy breakdown of horror tropes that any horror fan can enjoy.

The Changeling (1980)

Available on: Shudder

A classic haunted house ghost story that frequently makes horror best of lists The Changeling sees a bereaved composer move into a creepy mansion that’s been vacant for 12 years. Vacant that is, except for the spirit of a little boy who met an untimely death…

An unravelling mystery with a sense of intrigue and pathos that draws you into the narrative, all the way to the sad and disturbing final act revelation.

City of the Living Dead

Available on: Amazon Prime

Italian horror director Lucio Fulci kicked off his famous “Gates of Hell” trilogy with this gruesome, crude but surreal 1980 gorefest, in which a reporter (Christopher George) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl) struggle to stop those gates from opening and letting a horde of hungry undead into the world.

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The Dead Zone

Available on: Amazon Prime

The Dead Zone strangely remains both one of Stephen King’s more underrated movie adaptations as well as one of director David Cronenberg’s more unsung efforts. Yet it ends up being among the best from both author and auteur, while also providing star Christopher Walken with one of his most moving, complex performances to date.

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Doctor Sleep

Available on: HBO Max

Let’s be up front about this: Doctor Sleep is not The Shining. For some that fact will make this sequel’s existence unforgivable. Yet there is a stoic beauty and creepy despair just waiting to be experienced by those willing to accept Doctor Sleep on its own terms.

Directed by one of the genre’s modern masters, Mike Flanagan, the movie had the unenviable task of combining one of King’s most disappointing texts with the opposing sensibilities of Stanley Kubrick’s singular The Shining adaptation.

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The Evil Dead

Available on: Netflix

1981’s The Evil Dead is nothing less than one of the biggest success stories in horror movie history.

Written and directed on a shoestring budget by Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead uses traditional horror tropes to its great advantage, creating a scary, funny, and almost inconceivably bloody story about five college students who encounter a spot of bother in a cabin in the middle of the woods. That spot of bother includes the unwitting release of a legion of demons upon the world.

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A Field in England

Available on: Amazon Prime

2013’s A Field in England presents compelling evidence that more horror movies should be shot in black and white.

Directed by British director Ben Wheatley, A Field in England is a kaleidoscope of trippy, cerebral horror. The film takes place in 1648, during the English Civil War. A group of soldiers is taken in by a kindly man, who is soon revealed to be an alchemist. The alchemist takes the soldiers to a vast field of mushrooms where they are subjected to a series of mind-altering, nightmarish visions.

A Field in England is aggressively weird, creative, and best of all clocks in at exactly 90 minutes.

Fright Night

Available on: Amazon Prime

Screenwriter-turned-director Tom Holland lets a jaded, smarmy vampire named Jerry Dandridge loose in suburbia and watches the blood spurt in this beloved ‘80s horror staple.

Chris Sarandon brings a nice combination of amusement and menace to the role of the bloodsucker, while Planet of the Apes veteran Roddy McDowall is endearing as a washed-up horror host recruited into a real-life horror show. Much of Fright Night is teen-oriented and somewhat dated, but it still works as a sort of precursor to later post-modern horror gems like Scream.

Green Room

Available on: Netflix

Green Room is a shockingly conventional horror movie despite not having all of the elements we traditionally associate with them. There are no monsters or the supernatural in Green Room.

Instead all monsters are replaced by vengeful neo-Nazis and the haunted house is replaced by a skinhead punk music club in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon woods. The band The Aint Rights, led by bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) are locked in the green room of club after witnessing a murder and must fight their way out.

Hellraiser (1987)

Available on: Shudder

Directed by Clive Barker based on his novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser is an infernal body horror featuring S&M demons who’ve found a way out of a dark dimension and want to take you back there.

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Hereditary

Available on: Amazon Prime

Between Hereditary and The Haunting of Hill House 2018 was a great year for turning familial trauma into horror.

Written and directed by Ari Aster, Hereditary follows the Graham family as they deal with the death of their secretive grandmother. As Annie Graham (Toni Collette) comes to terms with the loss, she begins to realize that she may have inherited a mental illness from her late mother…or something worse.

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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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Horror of Dracula

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Replacing Bela Lugosi as Dracula was not easily done in 1958. It’s still not easily done now. Which makes the fact that Christopher Lee turned Bram Stoker’s vampire into his own screen legend in Horror of Dracula all the more remarkable. Filmed in vivid color by director Terence Fisher, Horror of Dracula brought gushing bright red to the movie vampire, which up until then had been mostly relegated to black and white shadows.

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Conversely, Abraham Van Helsing was never more dashing than when played by Peter Cushing in this movie. The film turned both into genre stars, and paved the way for a career of doing this dance time and again.

The House of the Devil

Available on: Amazon Prime

Indie horror auteur Ti West’s low-budget creepfest is a homage to 1980s horror yet plays it straight; he sets out to make a movie with the feel of genre films from that era without making self-aware in-jokes and references — and he mostly succeeds.

But The House of the Devil is also the definition of a “slow burn”: very little happens for much of the first hour (save a jolt here and there) and then the third act explodes into a paroxysm of murder, gore and Satanic horror. That makes the film feel a little off-balance, although in the end it all becomes quite unnerving.

House on Haunted Hill

Available on: Amazon Prime

What would you do for $10,000? How about surviving a night in a mansion haunted by murder victims and owned by a psychotic millionaire? Seems like a party trick until people actually start dying.

Vincent Price is the master and mastermind of a house that suddenly makes everyone homicidal—but the real pièce de résistance is what dances out of a vat of flesh-eating acid.

Some vintage horror never dies, and this 1959 classic is immortal.

Hush

Available on: Netflix

In his follow-up to the cult classic Oculus, Mike Flanagan makes one of the cleverer horror movies on this list. Hush is a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse with the typical nightmare of a home invasion occurring, yet it also turns conventions of that familiar terror on its head. For instance, the savvy angle about this movie is Kate Siegel (who co-wrote the movie with Flanagan) plays Maddie, a deaf and mute woman living in the woods alone. Like Audrey Hepburn’s blind woman from the progenitor of home invasion stories, Wait Until Dark (1967), Maddie is completely isolated when she is marked for death by a menacing monster in human flesh.

Further, like the masked villains of so many more generic home invasion movies (we’re looking square at you, Strangers), John Gallagher Jr.’s “Man” wears a mask as he sneaks into her house. However, the functions of this story are laid bare since we actually keep an eye on what the “Man” is doing at all times, and how he is getting or not getting into the house in any given scene. He is not aided by filmmakers who’ve given him faux-supernatural and omnipotent abilities like other versions of these stories, and he’s not an “Other;” he is a man who does take his mask off, and his lust for murder is not so much fetishized as shown for the repulsive behavior that it is. And still, Maddie proves to be both resourceful and painfully ill-equipped to take him on in this tense battle of wills.

The Invitation

Available on: Netflix

Seeing your ex is always uncomfortable, but imagine if your ex-wife invited you to a dinner party with her new husband? That is just about the least creepy thing in this new, taut thriller nestled in the Hollywood Hills. Indeed, in The Invitation Logan Marshall-Green’s Will is invited by his estranged wife (Tammy Blanchard) for dinner with her new hubby David (Michael Huisman of Game of Thrones). David apparently wanted to extend the bread-breaking offer personally since he has something he wants to invite both Will and all his other guests into joining. And it isn’t a game of Scrabble…

Intense, strange, and not what you expect, this is one of the more inventive thrillers of 2016.

Midsommar

Available on: Amazon Prime

It’s hard to categorize Midsommar, Ari Aster’s follow-up to his absolutely terrifying horror debut, Hereditary. Part straight up horror, part The Wicker Man, and part anthropological study, Midsommar seems to occupy many genres all at once. Aster himself called it a “break up” movie. But whatever genre Midsommar is, it is a brilliant, and at times deeply disturbing film.

Florence Pugh stars as Dani, a young woman trying to heal in the wake of an enormous tragedy. Dani follows her boyfriend, Christian, and his annoying friends to an important midsummer festival deep in the heart of Sweden. Christian and company are there partly to get high and have fun and also partly to study the unique, isolated culture for their respective theses. To say that they get more than they bargained for is an understatement. But Dani may just end up getting exactly what she needs.

Night of the Living Dead

Available on: Amazon Prime, HBO Max

George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie classic The Night of the Living Dead messed up the minds of late ’60s moviegoers as much as it messed with every horror movie that followed. Shot on gritty black and white stock, the film captures the desperate urgency of a documentary shot at the end of the world. It is a tale of survival, an allegory for the Vietnam War and racism and suspenseful as hell freezing over.

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Nosferatu

Available on: Amazon Prime

Nothing beats a classic, and that’s exactly what Nosferatu is. As the unofficial 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this German Expressionist masterpiece was almost lost to the ages when the filmmakers lost a copyright lawsuit with Stoker’s widow (who had a point). As a result, most copies were destroyed…but a precious few survived

This definitive horror movie from F.W. Murnau might be a silent picture, but it’s a haunting one where vampirism is used as a metaphor for plague and the Black Death sweeping across Europe. When Count Orlock comes to Berlin, he brings rivers of rats with him and the most repellent visage ever presented by a cinematic bloodsucker.

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The sexy vampires would come later, starting with 1931’s more polished vision of Count Dracula as legendarily played by Bela Lugosi, but Max Schreck is buried under gobs of makeup in Nosferatu making him resemble an emaciated cadaver. Murnau plays with shadow and light to create an intoxicating environment of fever dream repressions. But he also creates the most haunting cinematic image of a vampire yet put on screen.

Pet Sematary (2019)

Available on: Amazon, Hulu

After the classic Stephen King novel of the same name and Mary Lambert’s 1989 movie, what could there possibly be left to say about Pet Sematary? Quite a lot actually! Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer breathe new life into this old tale…not unlike a certain “sematary” itself.

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By John Saavedra

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On the Set with Pet Sematary’s Producer

By Nick Morgulis

Jason Clarke stars as Louis Creed, an ER doctor from Boston who moves his family to rural Ludlow, Maine to live a quieter life. Shortly into their stay, Louis and his wife Rachel (Amy Semeitz) experience an unthinkable tragedy. That’s ok though as neighbor Jud Crandall (John Lithgow) knows a very peculiar place that can help.

Phantasm

Available on: Amazon Prime

Director and writer Don Coscarelli has said that this 1979 cult classic was inspired by a recurring dream — and we believe him, since Phantasm has the surreal, not-quite-there feel of an inescapable nightmare from start to finish.

With its bizarre plot about a funeral parlor acting as a front to send undead slave labor to another dimension, the iconic image of the Tall Man, killer dwarves and those deadly silver spheres, Phantasm was and is like no other movie of its era.

Poltergeist

Available on: Netflix

Before there was Insidious, The Conjuring, or a myriad of other “suburban family vs. haunted house” movies, there was Poltergeist. Taking ghost stories out of the Gothic setting of ancient castles or decrepit mansions and hotels, Poltergeist moved the spirits into the middle class American heartland of the 1980s. With a smart screenplay by no less than Steven Spielberg (and, according to some, his ghost direction), Poltergeist finds the Freeling family privy to a disquieting fact about their new home: It’s built on top of a cemetery!

You probably know the story, and if you don’t you can guess it after decades of copycats that followed, but this special effects-laden spectacle still holds up, especially as a thriller that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Fair warning though, if your kids have a tree outside their window or a clown doll under their bed, we don’t take responsibility for the years of therapy bills this may inflict!

Ready or Not

Available on: HBO Max

The surprise horror joy of 2019, Ready or Not was a wicked breath of fresh air from the creative team Radio Silence. With a star-making lead turn by Samara Weaving, the movie is essentially a reworking of The Most Dangerous Game where a bride is being hunted by her groom’s entire wedding party on the night of their nuptials.

It’s a nutty premise that has a delicious (and broad) satirical subtext about the indulgences and eccentricities of the rich, as the would-be extended family of Grace (Weaving) is only pursuing her because they’re convinced a grandfather made a deal with the Devil for their wealth–and to keep it they must step on those beneath them every generation. Well step, shoot, stab, and ritualistically sacrifice in this cruelest game of hide and seek ever. Come for the gonzo high-concept and stay for the supremely satisfying ending.

Sweetheart

Available on: Netflix

Don’t let the name fool you, Sweetheart is very much a horror movie. What kind of horror movie, you ask? Well, after a boat sinks during a storm, young Jennifer Remming (Kiersey Clemons) is the only survivor. She washes ashore a small island and gets to work burying her friends, creating shelter, and foraging for food. You know: deserted island stuff.

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By Gavin Jasper

Soon, however, Jenn will come to find that the island is not as deserted as she previously thought. There’s something out there – something big, dangerous, and hungry. Sweetheart is like Castaway meets Predator and it’s another indie horror hit for Blumhouse.

The Tenant

Available on: Amazon Prime

Roman Polanski, in addition to being a creep and outright sex criminal, has a grand fascination with apartments, directing an unofficial “Apartment Trilogy” with Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Tenant. And it’s not hard to see why. There is something a little strange about dozens if not hundreds of relative strangers all calling the same place “home.”

1976’s The Tenant is the culmination of Polanski’s obsession with communal living and in some ways is the creepiest. Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a paranoid young file clerk who is on the verge of succumbing to the constant dread he feels. Things are exacerbated when Trelkovsky moves into a Parisian apartment and discovers the previous occupant killed herself. What follows is a tense and trippy exploration of fear itself.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Available on: Shudder

You’ve probably seen this one already, but this founding father of the slasher genre is a bit of a fairy tale when glimpsed at the right light. Some dumb kids wander into the wilderness, far away from the safety of civilization, on a trip to their grandparents’ home.

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But instead of reaching their destination, they wind up on the dinner table for the “Other,” who in this case is a redneck family of cannibals with a crossdressing serial killer who’s weapon of choice has an electric motor that makes a sweet hum as its blades tear into your flesh. When viewed like that, it might be worth seeing all over again, eh?

Under the Shadow

Available on: Netflix

This recent 2016 effort could not possibly be more timely as it sympathizes, and terrorizes, an Iranian single mother and child in 1980s Tehran. Like a draconian travel ban, Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her son Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) are malevolently targeted by a force of supreme evil.

This occurs after Dorsa’s father, a doctor, is called away to serve the Iranian army in post-revolution and war-torn Iran. In his absence evil seeps in… as does a quality horror movie with heightened emotional weight.

Underworld

Available on: Netflix

No one is going to mistake Underworld for high art. That obvious fact makes the lofty pretensions of these movies all the more endearing. With a cast of high-minded British theatrical actors, many trained in the Royal Shakespeare Company, at least the early movies in this Gothic horror/action mash-up series were overflowing with histrionic self-importance and grandiosity.

Take the first and best in the series. In the margins you have Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen portraying the patriarchs of warring factions of vampires and werewolves, and a love story caught between their violence that’s shamelessly modeled on Romeo and Juliet. It’s ridiculous, especially with Scott Speedman playing one party. But when the other is the oft-underrated Kate Beckinsale it doesn’t matter.

The movie’s bombast becomes its first virtue, and Len Wiseman’s penchant for glossy slick visuals, which would look at home in the sexiest Eurotrash graphic novel at the bookstore, is its other. Combined they make this a guilty good time. Though we recommend not venturing past the second or third movie.

Available on: HBO Max

Jordan Peele’s debut feature Get Out was a near instant horror classic so anticipation was high for his follow-up. Thanks to an excellent script, Peele’s deep appreciation of pop culture, and some stellar performances, Us more than lives up to the hype.

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By David Crow

Us tells the story of the Wilson family from Santa Cruz. After a seemingly normal trip to a summer home and the beach, Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o), Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two kids are confronted by their own doppelgangers, are weird, barely verbal, and wearing red. That’s just the beginning of the horror at play for the Wilsons and the world. Fittingly, Us feels like a feature length Twilight Zone concept done right.

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As we talked about on Facebook, and I'm fine with you posting this :D for a tarot question, what does Beezlebub want me to know currently? I'm rather curious since I work with him but we dont talk much.

I used a classic Celtic Cross spread, because I’ve found it thorough, but straightforward. I’m somewhat of an intuitive reader, and I hope I can shed some light on the answer in the same way.

“To the entity known as Beelzebub, is there anything you’d like this witch to know? How do you view working with them?”

For the center cards, 1 and 2, we have the immediate present in the Page of Cups, as well as the immediate challenge, in the Five of Pentacles.

You’re a creative individual, but even if you don’t feel you’re accomplished, you still have an imaginative outlook, which is always a plus. You want to try new things and explore, like a child learning things for the first time.

However, while the suit of cups is more about creativity, pentacles speak more to material possessions, and being a bit more pragmatic. You want to explore with total freedom and color outside the lines, so to speak. But you feel that you’ve lost something material (or can’t get it) and that you’d better keep tabs on more practical things. This isn’t a bad thing, necessarily, but in my own experience can make us think we’re keeping a balance when we’re not.

There aren’t many Major Arcana in this spread, but the Wheel of Fortune is one of two (/suspenseful music/).

Your past is characterized by a stroke of good luck, or a notable blessing. The wheel turned, and it was your turn to benefit. This speaks to having an opportunity that drastically changed your life, and you took it for what it was worth. With the last two cards, this looks to me like you know what the blessings in your life are, but you’ve come into a period where worry is starting to creep up on you.

You don’t necessarily take this for granted, but you’re feeling the affects of less than carefree, or spiritual influences.

Recently, things have still been going well, despite setbacks and doubts. You still feel creative, and have trust in your abilities for the most part. Double-checking is good, but doesn’t mean you’ve lost faith.

Again, with Three of Pentacles, you know the value of balance. Having or using materials doesn’t mean materialism, and we’re physical creatures as well as spiritual. Keep paying attention to the balance of your practical (”mundane”) and magical. Though it’s important to keep our lives creative and fun, keeping up morale, we each have to find our own unique balance between grunt work and the rest.

Take what you know you can do and build on it. Self-check is a part of growth just as much as reading from a textbook. The best future for you through this question is to reach a point where you can take this to heart, and own it.

Though I’m sure you’ve heard some of these ideas before, reversed Four of Swords speaks to the potential for a burnout in the immediate future. You’ve been blessed with opportunity and have taken appropriate advantage of it because you’re open to new ideas, and questioning yourself.

Even the best of us can reach periods where we need to unplug and take a good look at what we want. Mistaking producing for productivity/positivity is dangerous. So far, I read this spread as your willingness to progress, and be a good student, but without giving up your sense of why you’re on this path in the first place.

Just don’t get tunnel vision. Focus is good, but can lead to using all your resources in one place while other areas suffer. Don’t spread yourself thin - sometimes, just take a break.

Back to references to your creativity - you’re confident in your abilities. Even if your path and work is hindered or influenced by anxiety or depression (or something else) from time to time, you know how to return to something you feel is stable.

Keep on with your general methods, because they’ve served you well. A balance of material needs to serve the material side of you, with knowledge of the spiritual and creative to make sure the rest of you won’t go hungry. You care about following the recipe, even if it’s your own that no one’s ever heard of.

More and more pentacle cards~

Unfortunately, this also speaks to material pursuits. Again, not necessarily materialism, but a certain stubbornness and that you may be missing or ignoring something of a mundane nature despite your best efforts.

Even if the material isn’t something you’re holding in your hand, this can be seen in status, connections, or reputation.

Up until now, all of your suits (except for the Wheel of Fortune) have been pentacles and cups.

The Page of Swords is a card that, when reversed, speaks to a disconnect between what you want and what you’re actually doing. That, or you’ve said something that you haven’t fully delivered on, if at all. This could be due to hesitation, sensing something is “off” such as doubting your attempts at balance.

You seem to need more time to sort out what it is you really want to do, or be clear on what it is that you’ve really offered or said. Not quite the same as the Hanged Man, but prompting more reflection on how you’ve come across.

Self-reflection is good but, when it involves outside entities (human or otherwise), you may have stopped in the middle of your sentence, there.

And, last card, other Major Arcana!

The World is the card of satisfaction and completion. This situation can and will resolve in some way, but will take some reflection on what you really want, why you want it, and how you’ve expressed yourself.

I am not a Satanist, and don’t work with Demons or associated systems. So, the following is my intuitive tl;dr based on this divination only:

Beelzebub views you as competent, though not yet sparking specific interest. Not in a personal way, but they will not show focus on you until a few things are sorted out.

Why is it you want to work with them? Is it because of their status and reputation, however well-meaning? Are you a bit starstruck, for lack of a better term? Why do you want to work with them more closely? Why hasn’t the occasional exchange been enough?

They know who you are, and bear no ill will. You have their “business card,” but it’s not their personal number. To create a stronger connection, you’ll have to continue through their “secretary” for a time, and be willing to continue to follow procedures and etiquette. Not as an ever-present fan, but to show you’re willing to stay calm, measured, and leave it up to them, out of respect.

Then you might get a call to set up coffee, one of these days, rather than just passing each other in the “office.”

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OCCULT SATANISM Part 2

The Foundations Of Occult Satanism

Devil Worship, Dark Infernal Witchcraft and Classical Satanism … these are the core strands that weave the tapestry which is Occult Satanism. The Path itself is one which demands three things from the Initiate who embarks upon it … first of all it is required that the Initiate abandons and rebukes the foul tenets of the Abrahamic Religions and for the individual to swear themselves as an Adversary of those paths and all that have spawned from them. Secondly the Path of Diabolic Satanism requires the Initiate to become fully liberated and free from the moral, ethical and spiritual laws and the laws of man which have been derived from the teaching of Abrahamic Religion. Thirdly and most importantly of all it requires the Initiate to believe in the power of Satan, in his existence and the existence of the Demonic Legion over which he rules and to give of the self to the Work of that Legion in bringing forth the Aeon Of Flame upon this World. On an Occult level concerning the Dark Rites and Black Arts of Diabolic Satanism the Initiate must again be able to leave the false morals and ethics of the Orthodox herd behind and immerse themselves in the darkest forms of Infernal Sorcery and Devilish Witchcraft. In addition to this of cause the Initiate of the Path of Occult Satanism is urged to utilize the Black Arts of the Satanic Mysteries to enrich their own lives satiate personal desires and attain objectives they seek to achieve. The Path is one which leads the Initiate into fully merging with the Demonic, an opening of the self to the Infernal Currents of Hell and the following of an Infernal lineage which contained some of the Darkest Arcane Arts ever practiced. A lineage of Dark Apostles which immersed itself within Rites of Blood Sacrifice, Sexual Magick, the blackest Arts of Occult experimentation and the creation of Demonic beings here upon the physical realm. Occult Satanism is certainly not an Infernal Sojourn which will appeal to all who follow the Left Hand Path … rather that refute the labels of evil, decadent and malevolent often aimed at Satanists, the Initiate of Occult Satanism embraces such labels and immerses themselves in the cultivation of a lifestyle and Magickal arena which honours them! The Occult Satanist honours and serves the Lord Satan, the Devil of the Dark times now lost to memory and legend, the Black Goat of the Witches Sabbat … they honour Satan for is true self, an ancient and powerful force that has nothing at all to do with Fallen Angels. Satan has always been the Devil, a Creative and Destructive Monarch who is far more ancient than the concept of God, if Orthodox Religion has contributed to the Devil of this Tradition at all it is in more than providing various archetypal guises to add to the many this Dark God already had. Satan, the Devil Himself is primordial … a power of ineffable force that has been here always and it is in this form and in the guise of the Horned Goat Headed God that the Occult Satanist observes and honours their Infernal Father. For those who can embrace true darkness and take the descending path into Hell the Magickal Powers and Knowledge which lies before them is truly of the highest form and they will find themselves on a journey that opens themselves not only to the pleasures on the realm of the flesh but beyond in spheres beyond our current perception!

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WITCHFINDER GENERAL “Friends of Hell”, LP 1983 (The second album of the Hellish depraved maniacs, another total classic of New Wave Of British Heavy ‘Doom’ Metal)

“Midnight approaches When the circle is formed Their faces are evil ! Their minds are deformed ! They preach to their demons Sacrifice is prepared She's placed in a circle When the dagger is beared ! I've caught them all a-gathering To commit a blood crime act of madness Their evil posessed minds Can kill with only gladness To sacrifice a young one To Satan on that day And perish after death The Satanist's on their path Human corpses from the grave Used in worships I am dismayed Satan pleasures, yeah, deaths and treasures Must be ready, not delayed. The sacrifice is prepared Her naked flesh was pure They wrapped her in some red vines No sight for good I am sure They shout their words of evil Brainwashed into their minds The sacrificial dagger 'Tis placed in hands which bind Devouring the human flesh ! just to spill his blood like rain Satanists rage against mankind Take away his brain ! They've sold their souls to Satan Their witchcraft is obscene ! To be a dedicated disciple To Satan, this does mean ! But I am here, They see me and they freeze ! I shout the words of sacred scrolls on my knees A steaming stench, their flesh it runs like oil I hear their master shouting from under the soil They're friends of Hell ! Friends of Hell !”

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The Satanic Journal

Entry 1: August 7th 2019 21:05 ~ The Grimoire That Never Was And Other Writings Of Infernal Intent

I begin this Blog with no expectations, it shall either draw those to it that it was written for or it shall not, hopefully it shall at least provide a source of information for the true Path, Workings and Practices of Traditional Satanism as a healthy corrective the endless Atheistic Satanic Sites and Blogs which one can access. I am Broher Vartstenius (at least that is my Satanic Name) and I am a Traditional Theistic Satanist, a Black Magician and a devoted Disciple of the Dark Lord of Hell, Our Infernal Lord Satan. Within this Satanic Journal I shall be posting Satanic Philosophy, my thoughts, Infernal Theology, Black Magick Workings, Satanic Rites and Demonic Sorcery to give the reader access into the dark and Unholy vistas of Traditional Satanism which as a path is closely related to Classical Satanism and Devil Worship. The Writings involving Satanic Rites, Black Arts Workings and Infernal Magick on this Blog, within this Journal emanate from my own personal Book strangely titled ‘The Grimoire That Never Was’ . . . this Title is somewhat misleading holding fact and untruth in its words. This was never a full Working Grimoire at any time in history although as it manifests it shall become so now, so in that sense the title is valid but it may also suggest that the Workings within this Book are not genuine which is a fallacy because they are all true genuine Infernal Workings . . . true some are no longer practiced, some are experimental and some even from the unpredictable realm of legend laced with fact. But I have practiced many of the Workings within ‘The Grimoire That Never Was’ and they are powerful, potent and truly ineffable in their manifestations. The main reason for the title of this book was to throw a veil over its content to those who will seek to ridicule it, ban it or question the ethical and legal elements of some of its Workings - are the contents of this Book real, have they all been practiced and if so when? These are questions I feel that the true Dark Soul . . . the true Satanic Initiate will know the answers to . . . just know that The Grimoire That Never Was is a treasure chest of the unexplored and the forbidden well worth your exploration! Brother Svartstenius

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CLASSICAL SATANISM TEXT 24 Agrat Bat-Mahlat And The Conjuration To Incite Promiscuity In A Woman

NOTE Agrat Bat-Mahlat is a powerful Demon and a close ally of the Dark Queen Lilith, a Demon who governs the areas of sexuality, violation, fornication and promiscuity, also a wrathful Demon who takes pleasure in violence and all acts of sin. The Conjuration put forth here concentrates on this Demon's love of luring others to commit sins against the dictates of God and is to incite promiscuity in whoever the Satanist is directing the Working toward.

THE GUISE OF AGRAT BAT-MAHLAT Agrat Bat-Mahlat manifests in the form of a beautiful woman with long flowing Red hair, Her eyes are Black, Her lips Ruby Red, Her voluptuous form barely concealed by wraps of Red gossamer. Serpents often manifest with this Demon, either wrapped around Her or about Her on the ground seemingly moving with Her as She walks. This Demon also gestates at times as a frightening hag like woman with unruly White hair, She particularly adopts this form against those who rebuke Her.

AGRAT BAT-MAHLAT AND THE CONJURATION TO INCITE PROMISCUITY IN ANOTHER TO BE USED WITHIN THE WORKING 'THE MASTER RITUAL OF DEMONIC CONJURATION’

"Grand Demon of Seduction . . . Demon of Promiscuity and Harlotry . . . lover of Sin and Debauchery . . . Mistress of Serpents . . . Enchantress of the Wanton Grail . . . I Conjure your Power this night . . . summon forth your lascivious energy . . . call upon the currents of fornication which flow from your decadent form to possess and change the woman named (Name) . . . may she be lead by your ineffable power to become promiscuous . . . to become embroiled in countless sexual encounters . . . let (Name) become obsessed with sexual union with both men and women . . . desperate to be satisfied constantly within her insatiable loins . . . let her thoughts, motivations and objectives be consumed only with the constant need to be immerse herself in the pleasures of the flesh . . . I summon forth your debauched forces Grand Demon Agrat Bat-Mahlat to engulf the one named (Name) . . . leading her further and further along the path of sexual deprivation . . . Hail Agrat Bat-Mahlat!"

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The Black Grimoire Text 2

THE SATANIC BLACK MAGICIAN

The Satanic Black Magician is unlike any other human, they are a species apart governed by their Soul far more than their physical or intellectual processes. Those attracted to the practices of Satanism and Black Magick are most likely of a Dark Soul in the first place, Spirits housed in mortal flesh that have been forged in Hell, darkened through being involved in the Black Arts throughout many incarnations or younger Souls just naturally drawn to the shadow side of nature. Once Initiated and entering into the Dominion of Our Lord Satan and once practice within the Infernal Black Arts has begun the individual has commenced a path which, over time, transforms the Soul - and the mind which bridges the spiritual and physical - Infernally. While the conscious mind is more readily attached to its physical body, the subconscious mind is far more connected to the Soul and the realms that exist beyond our mortal globe. Within the very depths of the subconscious mind there lies a Gate which is the Outer Gate to the Abyss, the dark spheres that lie between the mortal realm and the Kingdom of Hell, it is in these dark spheres which lie unexplored realms inhabited by the disembodied who have not fully passed from our world, residual beings, shapeshifters, psychic vampires and egregoric entities. Beyond these spheres lies another Gate which leads to the fluid World of Acheron, the watery tides that rise upon the shores of Hell in the Shadow Kingdom. It is the the ability to transcend through these Gates and spheres that set the Satanic Black Magician apart from others, gradually their Soul becomes more Demonic in nature and the human elements held within mortal incarnation are subdued and morphed by this Infernal evolved Soul. The Satanic Black Magician almost always chooses the path of isolation, this is not isolation in a Monastic way, for those of this path love to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh, will have lovers and Kindred within the Infernal fold - but they do choose to divorce themselves from the masses of the Orthodox Sheep, the empty Atheists and those who are willingly governed by conformity. To the Classical Theistic Satanist such people can never be more than sexual conquests, passing amusements, prey or enemies . . . so divorced from the nature and Spiritual energy of the Black Magician are such individuals as to be regarded almost a different species on a deeper level. The Satanic Black Magician commits their life to the study, practice and mastery of Satanic Rites and Black Magick Arts; they devote themselves to the service of Our Lord Satan and the carrying out of His Work within the mortal sphere. Those who follow this Tradition have an insatiable hunger for Occult knowledge and for experiences upon all realms that they have yet to embrace . . . they are libertines but not for the sake of it, taking their sexual pleasures seriously but not being controlled by them. Unlike certain modern Satanists who relegate the path of Satanism to no more than sexual excess, porn and fetishism the Classical Satanist recognizes this to be but one element of the Infernal journey. As the journey into Darkness evolves it becomes clear to many of the Classical Satanic Creed that there are experiences, mysteries and raptures that lie beyond those of the flesh and which provide a much deeper form of liberation. The system of Satanic Occultism put forth in THE BLACK GRIMOIRE is one which concentrates on providing the Initiate with the Magickal forces to obtain their own personal objectives and desires, aids the transformation of the mind and Spirit into something more primal and Demonic and gives them the knowledge to endeavour to aid Satan and His Infernal Demons in their Work upon the physical domain. It is not a Grimoire for those who are only concerned with the sexual excesses of media influenced Satanism, nor will it be any use to the Atheistic/Rational Satanist who lacks the faith and scope of mind to embrace the Spiritual side of Satanism. THE BLACK GRIMOIRE has been forged for those who are true Seekers of Satanic Occult knowledge, those who desire deeply knowledge of the Mysteries of the Black Arts which have for centuries been kept in secrecy by the hidden Satanic Orders within Europe . . . it has been compiled for the individual who seeks the power of Satan, to serve Satan here upon Earth and beyond and who seeks the transformation of the self to become more Demonic within their Soul. The Path of Classical Theistic Satanism has for too long been left in the shadows and maybe that is where it flourishes best but here within the texts of THE BLACK GRIMOIRE the Black Arts and Rites of this path can at least be examined and embraced by those who are inclined to traverse the Path of the Infernal.

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LE MIROIR NOIR (The Black Mirror) Text 1: Introduction

The most sincere of welcomes and darkest salutations to those who find there way here, welcome to LE MIROIR NOIR (The Black Mirror): SATANIC BLACK MAGICK. This book is the culmination of a thirty-four year journey upon the Left Hand Path, the Dark Path of Classical Satanism and Black Magick. It also has its roots in a past life I have strong links with which took place in France in the 1600s, I have many recollections from this incarnation of practices which were no doubt the norm at the time in the dark clandestine cloisters of Devil Worship and these recollections have been recorded too within the following Texts of this Book. The formulation and lineage of this Book is without doubt a collaboration of the knowledge and experience I have gained in this life and from that previous incarnation. One of the most vivid memories of that time in France was the possession of a Book called LE MIROIR NOIR and it is in memory of this Book that I have named the present Manuscript now being unveiled before you. LE MIROIR NOIR . . . The Black Mirror . . . such an accurate Title for the Book then and for the Book now, as this Volume resonates very much with the old quote of the Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche "And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." The Black Mirror of Hell upon which one may gaze and see the reflection of Hell mirrored within the Dark Soul of the Self, the Black Mirror which is indeed a Portal and a Gateway to journey into the abyssian depths of the Demonic. LE MIROIR NOIR is akin to looking into this Blackened Mirror . . . the further one journeys into its Texts and unveils the Satanic Rites and Black Arts of the Demonic Mysteries the further one loses themselves within the dark realms of Hell, the further one becomes merged with the Demons that reside there. Similarly the deeper one journeys into practicing the Mysteries held within LE MIROIR NOIR the deeper ones Soul becomes joined with the eternal and ineffable Infernal Current of Our Father Satan Himself. LE MIOIR NOIR will be of little interest to the dabbler within the Black Arts and of no interest at all to the inane followers of the path of Atheistic Satanism (such a banal oxymoron) . . . to truly unlock the Mysteries of this Book absolute belief in Satan and His Infernal Demons and a deep and sincere desire to obtain and master the knowledge of the Satanic Black Magick Arts are imperative if the Satanic Seeker is to endure upon and succeed in their quest. From the inception Rites of Consecration and Initiation, onto the Arts of Evocation, Invocation, Sex Magick and Seership . . . further and deeper into the Black Rites of Necromancy, Malediction, Magickal Scripts and the Darkest of before unrevealed Insidious Infernal Rituals shall the Initiate of the Satanic Arts journey. Even beyond this the Initiate is taken into exploratory and forbidden Workings of the Black Arts which rebuke the very power God of Light and seek the Satanist becoming a Dark Creator in their own right, a Microcosm of their Infernal Father Satan. A Black Magician . . . a Satanic Black Magician . . . does not exist only in the Sanctum Temple, it is a life path and one which must be embraced on the deepest of physical, psychological and spiritual levels. We are arching back to the great Dark Magicians of the past such as Abbe Guibourg, La Voison and Gilles de Rais, many such Black Occultists had at one time adhered to the Catholic Faith but abandoned it to worship the Devil, the Lord Satan and so obtain the liberation, desires and power that could never have been found grovelling before the Altar of Jehova and his pallid Son the Nazarene. There is a rich and hidden history throughout Europe of the old Cults of Devil Worship and Classical Satanism, particularly in France, England Germany and Italy but its secrets lie in the underground Covens and Orders of secretive Satanic Practitioners who rarely declare their knowledge beyond the walls of their private Temples. For those who are fortunate to discover such a clandestine Coven the knowledge held within them is priceless, I have been fortunate enough to have discovered such in two separate incarnations, and the Darkest and now Forgotten (Forbidden) Arts gained in the first enabled me to find my way 'home' in this present incarnation. All of what I speak of here shall become much clearer over the Texts of LE MIROIR NOIR and for those who persevere with the journey into this Book much of that priceless knowledge will be discovered along with the Sacred Keys to unlock Mysteries which yet remain unresolved.

Brother Sarran Priest Of The Abbey Of The Unholy Europe 18:59 November 9 2018

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TRADITIONAL SATANISM

TEXT 3 OF THE UNHOLY SCRIPTURES

Traditional Satanism is best explained as a merging of Classical Demonology, Theistic Satanism, Dark Witchcraft and Devil Worship. To draw up within yourself an aesthetic or emotive vibe to resonate with this path think of the paintings of Goya, the legend of Faust, the writings of J K Huysmans and Dennis Wheatley, the dark images of Witchcraft of yesteryear captured in films such as The Witch Directed by Robert Eggers in 2015. Immerse yourself in the Dark Aesthetic of Gothic Art and the Mysteries of medieval Myth and Magick . . . all of these things will evoke within you a dark sense of what lies at the root of Traditional Satanism. The Traditional Satanist does not anger at the labels of evil, unholy or diabolic - rather they embrace such titles as they embrace their predatory, romantic, wrathful and carnal natures. They refute the concept of Fallen Angels for the most part recognizing that the Demons of Hell are far more ancient beings . . . raw and primal emerging from the infinite sea of chaos and creative darkness. While there is a heavy influence from the practices of Devil Worship within the Workings of Traditional Satanism there is a tendency to via away from the Ritualistic Ceremonial Magick associated with the Devil Worshiping Covens of France in the 1600/1700s, those such as the Cabal governed by the infamous Abbe Guibourg, Such Rites as the Black Mass and a number of similar Workings are observed within the practices of Traditional Satanic Practices and included within The Unholy Scriptures but there is a strong leaning for the Traditional Satanist to harness Magickal Powers through more direct and primal practices focused more on the energy of words and Demonic Names and the forming of connections through Magickal methods. The power held within blood and other tissues taken from the human body, the use of Roots and the tapping into Demonic energies through a morphing of the self with the beings of the Infernal are also recognized and utilized by those following this Dark Path! As with the ancient practices of Diabolic Witchcraft and Natural Demonic Sorcery those who enter into the Black Arts of Traditional Satanism are very much focused on the primal connection with Satan and the Demons of His Legion through direct applications and many Traditional Satanic Witches summon the aid of Demons without the use of Ritual Magick at all. This shall all become much clearer when we enter into the Writings of this Book dealing with the Magickal and Ritual side of the Satanic Black Arts. Also - as with Diabolic Witchcraft and Devil Worship - the Traditional Satanist places a strong faith on the power of inversion also through sympathetic reversal Magick founded upon the inversion of energies, places, symbols and practices associated with the Religions of the Orthodox faith. Beyond the Magickal and Arcane aspects of the path the Traditional Satanist is of an isolate yet libertine nature removing themselves willingly from the poisonous tendrils of Orthodoxy and Conformity in all their forms . . . while they seek passionately connection with their own kind in the every day world they are very much reclusive as the Path demands, isolating themselves from the inane social inertia around them to focus on forging stronger links with their Infernal Kindred and with the Demons of the Shadow Regions in order to aid their inner transformation which lies at the core of the Path of Traditional Satanism - this shall be examined more in Text 5 of The Unholy Scriptures.

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ACCESSING THE SATANIC ARCHIVES

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THE SATANIC ARCHIVES is a Book which holds knowledge for the Satanist no matter what level one may be upon the Infernal Path. Containing Workings as it does which commence with the most basic of Rites it will be of use to the Satanic Neophyte, but revealing also Dark Arts never before published it also has Texts that will gain the interest of the more experienced Satanic Practitioner. I vowed the release of this Work to my Infernal Father Lord Satan many years ago and that vow is now being realized, it has taken a long time to put all that has been discovered together as a whole, for it to be ready to be released as a compilation of workable texts. But the collection of material built up over the past forty-two years has now reached that point where publication is the next step. One can learn much about Satanism, the Occult and the Black Arts by making an extensive search for relevant Occult Books and the studying of such Books, unfortunately many of these were penned by Practitioners and Scholars of the Right Hand Path and so the writings are often if not always bias against the performance of Left Hand Path Occultism. With THE SATANIC ARCHIVES the reader will gain access to an extensive collection of Satanic Black Arts, Infernal Rituals, Left Hand Path Occult Rites and methods of Old Sorcery drawn from sources such as Classical Satanism, Devil Worship, Demonology, Black Witchcraft and Infernal Occult Sciences. Ceremonial Magick is deliberately moved away from within this Book for it is intended to be a collation of Satanic Workings which are founded more on direct raw primal Demonic Sorcery . . . Dark Art Workings accessible to all who seek to enter into such Unholy Practices. No amount of study or research within the texts of Occult Books can really equal being tutored by those who belong to Cabals which have continued for decades, nor can it equal knowledge gained through direct Communion with Demonic Entities (through Automatic Writing, Seership, past life regression and Meditation) or through actual hands on experience with the Black Arts. I have been fortunate in this life time (and other incarnations) to have gained access to Satanic Occult knowledge through these sacred avenues of exploration. Through past life regression techniques I have recalled practices that were prevalent in the Satanic Covens of the renaissance period and Black Arts practiced by Diabolic Witches in the Dark Ages. Through Demonic Communion with My Spiritual Father Satan and the Demons under his Command I have gained access to Archives that exist beyond our physical dominion and found Arts and Rites which remain hidden to many. As said I have been fortunate to enter such realms and possess certain abilities which have made such knowledge available to me not to mention fortunate enough to join an underground Satanic Order that held a lineage back into the 1800s. Such abilities and opportunities have not only presented me with knowledge of Black Arts never to found in the published Book but also presented me with foundations to study from and so surpass what would have been years of initial studies to find the areas I needed to concentrate upon. Within the Documents of THE SATANIC ARCHIVES there are also writings which open the spotlight on some of the techniques that I have employed to gain the knowledge that I now willingly share through this Book and I hope these brief essays upon these techniques will lead to others following the same path and discovering even more of the Mysteries which exist within the core of Satan’s Darkest Rites and Arts. Nothing has been left out that I hold knowledge of within the following texts, even Practices recalled and gained access to from times long past have been included . . . some of these are not truly viable in the present social structure we live in and would be considered illegal under the laws of that structure. Such Workings have still been included to ensure that THE SATANIC ARCHIVES lives up to its Title and becomes the most powerful and complete resource Book for the study of Satanic Black Magick past and present for those who seek to become a scholar on the subject or indeed a Practitioner of the Arts given forth by Satan and His Infernal Legion. Enter here within these Archives and discover the Mysteries which are as Gates to the Dominions of Hell and make use of the knowledge held there as you will. (c)Father Elias 2019

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Is it Halloween when you’re reading this? If not we’re still close enough with fall here and the month of October almost upon us! It’s the time of year where we like our drinks spiced with pumpkin or apple, our flannel light, and the movies we consume scary. And lucky for you there are more than a handful of worthwhile scary movies on Netflix.

There is nothing quite as fun as embracing the spooky, the creepy, the scary, and things that go bump in the night. Thankfully we have horror movies to help us down these paths. If you ever find yourself in need of a thrill or a chill, check out some of the best horror movies on Netflix, we’ve gathered here.

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As Above, So Below

We know what you might be thinking: a found footage horror movie? Yes, this was one of the later adherents to a genre craze that got run into the ground during the 2000s and early 2010s. However, As Above, So Below is the rare thing: effectively creepy. With a crackerjack premise about the real Catacombs of Paris being a secret gateway to Hell, the film casts an energetic Perdita Weeks as a modern day Indiana Jones in a Go-Pro helmet. She and her colleagues make the unwise choice to go off the tourist-guided path in the catacombs, which is home to the remains of more than 6 million people who died between the early middle ages and 18th century.

But once deep below the City of Lights, the film’s dwindling protagonists find themselves crawling beneath a wall with the words “Abandon all Hope Ye Who Enter.” And things just get bleak from there. This is a ghoulish good-time for those who are willing to indulge in the gimmick storytelling.

Apostle

Apostle comes from acclaimed The Raid director Gareth Evans and is his take on the horror genre. Spoiler alert: it’s a good one.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter

The Blackcoat’s Daughter is an excellent debut directorial outing from Oz Perkins and another step on the right horror path for scream queens Shipka and Emma Roberts.

The Evil Dead

1981’s The Evil Dead is nothing less than one of the biggest success stories in horror movie history.

Written and directed on a shoestring budget by Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead uses traditional horror tropes to its great advantage, creating a scary, funny, and almost inconceivably bloody story about five college students who encounter some trouble in a cabin in the middle of the woods. That trouble includes the unwitting release of a legion of demons upon the world.

The Evil Dead rightfully made stars of its creator and lead Bruce Campbell. It was also the jumping off point for a successful franchise that includes two sequels, a remake, a TV show, and more.

Gerald’s Game

We are living in a renaissance for Stephen King adaptations. But while there have been many killer clowns and hat-wearing fiends getting major attention at the multiplexes, the best King movie in perhaps decades is Mike Flanagan’s underrated Gerald’s Game. Cleverly adapted from what has been described as one of King’s worst stories, Gerald’s Game improves on its source material when it imagines a middle-aged woman (Carla Gugino) placed in a terrifying survival situation after her husband (Bruce Greenwood) dies of a heart attack during a sex game.

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Handcuffed to a bed in their remote cabin in the woods, Gugino’s Jessie must face the fact no one is coming to save her in the next week… more than enough time to die of dehydration or the wolf prowling about. Thus the specter of death hovers over the whole movie, seemingly literally with a monstrous shade emerging from the shadows to bedevil Jessie each night. A trenchant character study that frees Gugino to show a wide range of terror, determination, and finally horrifying desperation, the movie delves into the shadows of a woman haunted by trauma and demons almost as scary as her current situation. Almost.

The Gift

Who knew Joel Edgerton had it in him?

The Gift is the Australian actor’s writing and directing debut and it doesn’t disappoint. Edgerton stars as Gordon “Gordo” Mosely. He’s a nice enough middle-aged man if a little “off.” One day while shopping he runs into an old high school classmate Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall). After their brief encounter, Gordo takes it upon himself to start dropping off little gifts to Simon and Robyn’s home. Robyn sees no problem with it at first. But Simon becomes disturbed, perhaps because of the unique past Simon and Gordo share.

Many horror movies understand there must be a twist of some sort or at the very least an unexpected third act. Even still The Gift‘s third act switch up is particularly devastating because it’s so mundane and logical. The Gift ends up being an emotional drama disguised as horror.

The Girl with All the Gifts

Just when you thought there was nothing left to be done with the zombie genre, in comes a shocking and original idea… one that has sadly grown only more scary in 2020 with regards to The Girl with All the Gifts. A brilliant little indie from Colm McCarthy, this underrated gem imagines a zombie apocalypse as something closer to a viral pandemic that lasts for generations…. and one where a vaccine is always just out of reach.

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Thus enters the class of Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton). Years after a fungal infection ravaged the planet, turning the infected into “hungries” (breathing zombies), their offspring have shown a creepy ability to retain the ability to think, learn, and love… even as they crave living flesh.

Hence the students in Helen’s class, including her favorite Melanie (Sennia Nanua). The child is special… too much so when it’s believed her biology could create a vaccine that would spare anymore humans turning “hungry.” But to harvest her body, the military will drag Helen and Melanie through an urban hellscape which has reduced London to an abandoned refuge for Hungries and feral children who likewise hunt uninfected humans for food.

The Golem

The Golem is such an awesome monster from Jewish mythology that it’s hard to believe they don’t make more movies about him. Well now they have. The Golem isn’t a straight-up remake of the 1915 movie of the same name so much as it is the next step in the evolution of this grim mythological beast.

During the outbreak of a plague, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg) will do whatever it takes to defend her community from outside invaders. Unfortunately, and in true fairy tale fashion, the creature she conjures up to defend her community quickly develops a murderous mind of its own.

Green Room

Green Room is a shockingly conventional horror movie despite not having all of the elements we traditionally associate with them. You won’t find any monsters or the presence of the supernatural in Green Room.

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Instead all monsters are replaced by vengeful neo-Nazis and the haunted house is replaced by a skinhead punk music club in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon woods. The band, The Aint Rights, led by bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) are locked in the green room of a club after witnessing a murder and must fight their way out.

Horns

A horror vintage for a distinctly acquired taste, Alexandre Aja’s Horns is a bizarre fairy tale for adults. As much a revenge fable as a typical chiller, this movie which put “Harry Potter in Devil Horns” is actually something of a grim love story based on a novel by Joe Hill.

Daniel Radcliffe plays Ig Perrish, an outcast in his local community who wants nothing more than to forever be by the side of his lifelong love Merrin (Juno Temple). After her brutal unsolved murder prevents that, Ig swears he’d sell his soul to get revenge.

Funny thing is the day after he makes such a proclamation, horns begin growing from his forehead. The greater they grow, the easier it is to get sinners around him to confess their most hidden shames, and indulge in others. But with the clock ticking before he becomes a full-fledged demon, and his soul is presumably claimed by Beelzebub, there is only a narrow window before he can get revenge while raising a little hell.

Hush

In his follow-up to the cult classic Oculus, Mike Flanagan makes one of the more clever horror movies on this list. Hush is a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse within the typical nightmare of a home invasion, yet it also turns conventions of that familiar terror on its head.

For instance, the savvy angle about this movie is Kate Siegel (who co-wrote the movie with Flanagan) plays Maddie, a deaf and mute woman living in the woods alone. Like Audrey Hepburn’s blind woman from the progenitor of home invasion stories, Wait Until Dark (1967), Maddie is completely isolated when she is marked for death by a menacing monster in human flesh.

Like the masked villains of so many more generic home invasion movies (I’m looking square at you, Strangers), John Gallagher Jr.’s “Man” wears a mask as he sneaks into her house. However, the functions of this story are laid bare since we actually keep an eye on what the “Man” is doing at all times, and how he is getting or not getting into the house in any given scene. He isn’t aided by filmmakers who’ve given him faux-supernatural and omnipotent abilities like other versions of these stories, and he’s not an “Other;” he’s a man who does take his mask off, and his lust for murder is not so much fetishized as shown for the repulsive behavior that it is. And still, Maddie proves to be both resourceful and painfully ill-equipped to take him on in this tense battle of wills.

Insidious

Insidious is the start of a multi-film horror franchise and a pretty good one at that. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne star as a married couple who move into a new home with their three kids. Shortly after they move in, their son Dalton is drawn to a shadow in the attic and then falls into a mysterious coma from which they can’t wake him.

It’s at this point that the Lamberts do what horror fans always yell at characters to do: they move out of the damn house! Little do they know, however, that some hauntings go beyond mere domiciles.

The Invitation

Seeing your ex is always uncomfortable, but imagine if your ex-wife invited you to a dinner party with her new husband? That is just about the least creepy thing in this taut thriller nestled in the Hollywood Hills.

Indeed, in The Invitation Logan Marshall-Green’s Will is invited by his estranged wife (Tammy Blanchard) for dinner with her new hubby David (Michael Huisman of Game of Thrones). David apparently wanted to extend the bread-breaking offer personally since he has something he wants to invite both Will and all his other guests into joining. And it isn’t a game of Scrabble…

It Comes at Night

Surviving the apocalypse comes with a certain amount of questions. For starters, what do you do after you survive a global pandemic thanks to your secluded cabin in the woods…and then someone comes knocking? That’s the situation that the family consisting of Paul (Joel Edgerton), Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), and Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) find themselves in in It Comes at Night.

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When Paul and his family come across another family in the woods seeking shelter and water, they hesitantly welcome them in. But this soon proves to be a dangerous decision. Having guests in the real world is annoying enough to deal with and it only becomes harder when you suspect that any one of them could be sick with a highly-contagious, utterly fatal illness.

Paranormal Activity

Ignore the sequels. Yes, you know they’re bad and we know they’re bad. But long before “the Ghost Dimension” (whatever the hell that means), there was this eerie surprise hit that started it all. A movie which was estimated to be the most profitable movie of all time in its day–earning $193.4 million worldwide on a budget of $15,000–Paranormal Activity put Blumhouse Productions on the map and is still a supremely affecting piece of atmosphere.

Presented as the true story of a young, and not wholly likable, couple (Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat), the film follows the pair as they attempt to document the bumps they’re hearing in the house at night–only to discover a demonic presence and some repressed memories for one party. A still brilliant exercise in sound design, tension, and the uncanny ability to trick audiences into believing what they’re seeing is actually happening, this remains the best found footage horror movie ever made.

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Red Dragon

The often overlooked other child of the Hannibal Lecter movie family, Red Dragon is no The Silence of the Lambs, no matter how much it wishes it was. Nor is it as visually evocative or luscious as Ridley Scott’s decadent Hannibal. Nevertheless, we find this prequel to both films to be at least worthy of association with the former, and ultimately more satisfying than the latter. A definite attempt to reshape Thomas Harris’ first novel to feature the Lecter character into a Silence of the Lambs clone, Red Dragon still has quite a bit to enjoy.

At the top of the list is of course Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal for the third and final time. Definitely his hammiest iteration of the character, even a campy Hopkins is impossible to resist given the not-so-good doctor’s droll wit or distinct taste palate. Director Brett Ratner’s framing around Lecter is competent enough, and he wisely gets a superb supporting cast who can overwhelm any shortcomings.

Edward Norton is a compelling lead FBI detective; Philip Seymour Hoffman is delightfully repellent as a tabloid journalist who suffers a terrifying fate; and Ralph Fiennes roars as the serial killer who inflicts that fate on Hoffman. It may be no Manhunter–Michael Mann’s first adaptation of the source novel–but Red Dragon‘s the one on Netflix. So love the one you’re with!

The Silence of the Lambs

If you are only going to watch one Hannibal Lecter movie, this is the all-time masterpiece which remains the sole horror movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture. An absolutely gripping thriller even 30 years later, Jonathan Demme’s movie is an all-time great because of stellar performances and a sharp screenplay told by an even sharper eye.

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Here is the movie that kicked off the serial killer craze in Hollywood during the ’90s. Yet more than the gory details, what lingers in the mind are little things like an opening sequence that introduces Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) as the lone woman on an elevator full of FBI ubermensches, or the way Anthony Hopkins breaks his unrelenting stare to mispronounce “Chianti” with dripping disdain for the Yokel sent to interview him. Every facet of this movie works, and thus it hasn’t aged a day. We do recommend watching it with a side of fava beans, though.

Sinister

One of the better Blumhouse chillers to come out of the 2010s, Sinister is the case of a brilliant elevator pitch meeting a superior pair of talents in director Scott Derrickson and star Ethan Hawke to bring it to life.

The setup of the movie is simple: There is a pagan demon god who will consume the soul of any nearby children whenever someone sees him. And not just him, but recreations of his image on walls. And wouldn’t you know it, true crime journalist Ellison (Hawke) just moved into a house with an attic full of home movies stuffed to the gills with Bughuul. And Ellison’s daughter is right downstairs. Uh oh.

Sleepy Hollow

As much a comedy as a horror film, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow should always be on the table when discussing October viewing options. After all, this demented reimagining of Washington Irving’s classic short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” never forgets the selling point is to have them rolling in the aisles. And more than a few heads do just that.

As a film with the most varied and imaginative uses of decapitation, Sleepy Hollow cuts a bloody path across Upstate New York. In fact, despite its American setting, we might as well confess what Sleepy Hollow really is: a modern version of a Hammer horror movie.

Burton incorporates all of his favorite tropes here: The intentionally stuffy faux-British acting (even though all the characters are of Dutch descent); the exaggerated and formal clothing; more than a few heaving bosoms; and lots and lots of gore. This film is so perfectly macabre and gleefully grotesque that you might even be forgiven for not noticing at first glance how dryly funny and deadpan a place this Sleepy Hollow tends to be.

Splice

What if Dr. Frankenstein banged his monster? That is just one of several creepy elements to Splice, a weird psychosexual sci-fi/horror hybrid. Directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as the world’s worst scientists, Splice follows two not-so-smart doctors who attempt to play God by creating an entire new species of creature they name Dren (Delphine Chanéac).

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At first a computer-generated child with alien eyes and a roping tail, Dren soon grows from girl to young woman, seducer to… well, something even more unexpected. Weird, unpleasant, and ultimately unshakable like that one bad dream, Splice plays with ideas of identity, gender, and parenthood.

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Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a fantastic little satire on the horror genre that, in a similar fashion to Scream, is packed with laughs, gore, and a bit of a message. When a group of preppy college students head out to the backwoods for a camping trip, they stumble upon two good-natured good ol’ boys that they mistake for homicidal hillbillies.

Their quick, off-the-mark judgment of Tucker and Dale lead to these snobs getting themselves into sticky, often bloody, and hilariously over-the-top situations. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil rides a one-joke premise to successful heights and teaches audiences to not judge a book by its cover.

Under the Shadow

This 2016 effort could not possibly be more timely as it sympathizes, and terrorizes, an Iranian single mother and child in 1980s Tehran. Like a draconian travel ban, Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her son Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) are malevolently targeted by a force of supreme evil.

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Take the first and best in the series. In the margins you have Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen portraying the patriarchs of warring factions of vampires and werewolves, and a love story caught between their violence that’ shamelessly modeled on Romeo and Juliet. It’s ridiculous, especially with Scott Speedman playing one party. But when the other is the oft-underrated Kate Beckinsale it doesn’t matter.

The movie’s bombast becomes the movie’s first virtue, and Len Wiseman’s penchant for glossy slick visuals, which would look at home in the sexiest Eurotrash graphic novel at the bookstore, is its other. Combined they make this a guilty good time. Though we recommend not venturing past the second or third movie.

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