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the post on occult related films got me interested. im going to get net flix soon so i was wondering what are some good occult related movies out there.
i have seen
the holy mountain (5 stars. really rare movie)
the ninth gate (i love johnny depp)
lord of illusion(kick ass)
i have seen
the holy mountain (5 stars. really rare movie)
the ninth gate (i love johnny depp)
lord of illusion(kick ass)
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Re: Occult related movie reccomendation list
Wed, March 1, 2006 - 2:59 PMa few silent ones:
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
The Golem
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Wed, March 1, 2006 - 3:36 PMclose your eyes (psychic and magic suspense movie) -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 11:57 AMa few of my occult related favorites:
The Dark Chrystal
3 John Waters movies: Pink Flamingoes, Multiple Maniacs and A Dirty Shame
Waking Life contains thematic content relevant to shamanic initiation
Slacker. a couple of the vignettes contain rather obvious occult references, & *all the vignettes are interconnected* to form the story of a day
Meshes of the Afternoon, as well as Maya Deren's ethnographic film footage on Vodou in Haiti
Martin (my favorite vampire movie)
The Wizard of Oz
Dances Sacred & Profane
Carnival of Souls
El Topo
Prospero's Books
Fantasia
most any Kenneth Anger movie. i like Scorpio Rising & have yet to see his magnum opus Lucifer Rising.
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 12:00 PMholy smokes! i forgot to mention Pi! -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 12:14 PMI couldn't stand Pi. I watched years later after studying Kabbalah thinking maybe I missed something the first time around but I still hated it. heh. -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 1:57 PMHellboy is quite well incorporated into real life occult ww2 info + Batboy!
Golgotha-Alabama is a indie film about some magick
ya know I like Lord of Illusions too
I also like conpiracy movies like "Documentaries" on magic most are typical "It's all satanic" but anything good is antithetical to restriction:) so i gleen nuggets of wisdom there
Witchcraft Throughout The Ages , get the burroughs version yow!
How to Operate your Brain-tangentally but chaostic for certain\1
Simon Magus,weird little movie
Excaliber- i like morgan le fay and merlins battles and the imagery (very tarot)
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 2:15 PMPink Flamingoes? What does that have to do with the occult? I've never thought of it as occult-related, please enlighten me.
I'd also add:
Akira
Brazil
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Mirrormask
Schizopolis
White Zombie
Howl's Moving Castle
The Wizard of Speed and Time
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 4:17 PMVincent Price in "The Raven" has got to be my all time favorite.
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 12:10 PMWaking Life.
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 12:17 PMwe can agree to disagree there. i take it as a matter of course that the so-called "occult" is a BROAD topic. & i submit that Waking Life is indeed relevant to shamanic initiation!
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 12:28 PMI am just gonna look like a big complainer this morning but I found Waking Life painfully sophomoric.
If we're venturing a bit further out of the "occult", I nominate The Game -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 1:30 PMnot long ago a document pointed out to me that 2001: A Space Odyssey contains deliberate alchemical content. find the relevant discussion here, beginning under the photo of Terrence McKenna to your right.
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 1:49 PMClownhouse. -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 5:22 PMhey squeegle you must know my boyfriend beast cuz he worked on that movie.
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 5:30 PMnevermind i figured it out -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 6:24 PMalejandro jodorowsky is great i just bought "el topo" today
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 8:11 PMMetropolis
Dr. Mabuse der Spieler
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 8:13 PMCool.
Given that I would also like to submit "Big Fish", "I Heart Huckabees" and "The Cooler". By far the most relevant would be Waking Life (in my opinion), but each of them has something to offer an occultist.
Two that are as relevant as Waking Life (arguably in any case) are "What the Bleep do we Know?" and "Elegant Universe" (yes, from the book of the same name). -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 9:20 PMThe Craft
...just joking! (Bad joke for a movie which was also a bad joke... well, not for teenage wannabe Wiccans)
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Fri, March 3, 2006 - 3:01 PMDonnie Darko might apply here.
and i second the dislike of Pi. I was thinking about it just yesterday.
I may think of some others...but mostly i'm diggin' the recommendations 'cause i'm about to get Netflix myself.
thanks..
m7
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Fri, March 3, 2006 - 3:58 PMDonnie Darko. Good call.
I don't think it "might" apply. I think it definately does. Nice.
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Wed, October 11, 2006 - 2:18 PMI tried watching this while high on psily's + datura, I don't remeber much of it, but it tripped me out pretty good. I'll try watching it again on some softer sacraments.
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Fri, March 3, 2006 - 10:17 PMThe Saragossa Manuscript
The Hour of the Wolf
The Keep
The Mystery of Rampo
The Sacrifice
...just to name a few more a bit obscure...
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Fri, March 3, 2006 - 10:20 PMand
Dead End
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Sat, March 4, 2006 - 10:36 PMi just watched "The Mists of Avalon" last night and can add that to the list of occult-related films...however, i can't say it was one of my favorite movies. Some of the acting was horrible, but most of the female characters were engaging enough to keep me interested. The story line itself is compelling, which leads me to believe that i might have enjoyed reading the book more than the movie. Too bad i can't sit still long enough to read that thick of a book. Good witchy/goddess theme...though it could be called a "chick flick".
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 2:13 AMAnyone remember a black-and-white called Night of the Demon? Solid sorcery plot.
Oh, and nobody's mentioned Star Wars ;)
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 9:18 PMoh, and that reminds me of the Evil Dead.
unless it was only serious films you were interested in....
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Mon, March 6, 2006 - 9:28 PMgood bad occult moves?
Night Of The Demons (1 & 2, distinct from the above, I believe)
Witchboard
From Beyond
The Devil Rides Out
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Tue, March 7, 2006 - 7:06 AMMy favortie classic:
"Bell, Book and Candle"
and a rare one:
"Seizure" which was directed by Oliver Stone.
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Tue, March 7, 2006 - 3:41 PM"Mr Vampire" (for Taoist shamanist magic)
"Black Robe" - Amer-indian stuff - the shaman in it is cool.
and beyond any doubt...one of the best films ever imo (even though its more to do with paganism than magic)... "THE WICKER MAN"
I'll add "Holy Smoke" for good measure (kinda about the Sanyassin Cult)
I like these films because the topic of magic or belief is not overblown or warped into a suspense or horror film.
I'm gonna join Saul in being a whiner...:) I hate it when filmakers focus on juvenile forms of satanism and call it magick.
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Tue, March 7, 2006 - 9:17 PMyeah but skip the director's cut - yikes!
I call the director's cut of donnie darko "bladerunner in reverse"
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Wed, March 8, 2006 - 11:39 AMa real important one
power of myth series by joseph campbell
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 6:26 PMOkay, check out Skeleton Key. Takes place in N'Orleans. After you see it, look back over it and the horror sets in.
Cheers,
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 7:22 PMThe Order aka The Sin Eater is one of my favorites -
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 9:59 PMok ok
Werewolves on Wheels
Any Kenneth Anger films but especially Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
strangely Time Bandits and Witchcraft Through Out The Ages!
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Tue, March 21, 2006 - 5:29 AMMost of the flicks mentioned are pretty good, as far as occult is concerned.
My recommendation is surprisingly not mentioned anywhere:
"THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU"
It's a damned cool flick, with all the "beast people" and the little guy who plays piano for the doctor. The Law that is recited in the movie, that governs the doctor's creations, is taken from an old ritual practised by the Illuminati and in certain Masonic lodges in Europe, later practised in a similar version by the O.T.O under Crowley's administration.
Check it out.
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Tue, March 21, 2006 - 7:37 AMOk, I'm weird, and mine are more shamanic than occult.
rabbit proof fence
whale rider
lake consequence
the ghost & the darkness
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Wed, March 22, 2006 - 7:53 AM"more shamanic than occult"?? how is shamanism *not* a branch of the occult? of COURSE it is! :) -
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Mon, April 10, 2006 - 9:51 AMbesides most of the above, I'd also recommend:
Geoges Melies - illusionist turned father of fantasy films (made between 1896 & 1912), some of which are on collections (his most famous is "LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE", he also did several Faust films, and others with himself as Mephistopheles or Satan)
THE MAGICIAN (silent film with Paul Wegener from THE GOLEM films as a Crowley-type)
Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL and THE MAGICIAN
MACBETH (Welles' and Polanski's)
BURN, WITCH, BURN
CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS
CAT PEOPLE ('42 and '82)
TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER (Hammer's followup to THE DEVIL RIDES OUT mentioned above)
animator Harry Smith (made films from '40's to '80), used lots of magical symbolism, especially Kabbalah
Matthew Barney's CREMASTER series (tho I've so far only managed to see #3, which is actually the 5th one, which was about Freemasonry)
Jean Cocteau's BLOOD OF A POET, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEUS, and THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (supposedly he was for a time head of the Rosy Cross)
FAUST (Murnau's and Svankmajer's) and DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Richard Burton doing Marlowe)
DEF BY TEMPTATION
THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN
werewolves: THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON, THE WOLF MAN, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF, THE HOWLING (but NONE of the sequels), AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, A COMPANY OF WOLVES, FULL ECLIPSE, DOG SOLDIERS, and most of Spanish star Paul Naschy's series ('67-'83) are fun
vampires: too many to mention all (I like even some of the bad ones, especially Dracula), but on top are NOSFERATU (Murnau's and Herzog's), DRACULA'S DAUGHTER, KISS OF THE VAMPIRE, THE BODY BENEATH, HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS, THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE, DEATHDREAM, THE LEGENDARY CURSE OF LEMORA, MARTIN, NEAR DARK, TALE OF A VAMPIRE, NADJA, THE ADDICTION, HABIT, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
Bunuel & Dali's UN CHIEN ANDALOU
HELLRAISER & HELLBOUND Hellraiser 2
THE DEVIL'S RAIN (for silly fun)
Craig Baldwin's SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM
Guy Maddin's TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS
Derek Jarman's version of THE TEMPEST
ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (a.k.a. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER)
the Amicus omnibus series: DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS, TORTURE GARDEN, THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, TALES FROM THE CRYPT, THE VAULT OF HORROR
Vincent Price in THE HAUNTED PALACE (Poe title, but Lovecraft story), CRY OF THE BANSHEE, and both Dr. Phibes films
THE DUNWICH HORROR
ANGEL HEART
THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY ('45)
Lon Chaney as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25)
tv series: "DARK SHADOWS" ('60's & '90's), "ROD SERLING'S NIGHT GALLERY", "TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE", "AMERICAN GOTHIC", "BRIMSTONE"
I think one of Maya Deren's films was mentioned above, but ANY of her films have certain Occult sensibilities (she went Haiti to film Voodoo, and ended up staying, getting fully immersed)
okay, I'm a film-geek...I'll quit...for now...mwahahahahahahahaha...
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Mon, May 22, 2006 - 3:17 AMYou've seen Emerald Forest? I don't think I've ever met anyone else who has. ;-)
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Mon, May 22, 2006 - 10:14 AMOne of my favorite lines of all times comes from Emerald Forest, (by John Boorman, btw).
Our protagonist is looking for native guides, none volunteer, the chief is apologetic. So our boy asks why the chief doesn't just order someone to help if he's the chief. And the chief responds:
"If I ask a man to do what he does not want to do, then I am no longer chief."
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Mon, May 22, 2006 - 11:29 PMUnfortunately, have never seen EMERALD FOREST - strange, too, since I love Boorman's EXCALIBUR, ZARDOZ, & others (even, 'cause it's sooooo bad, EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC).
Finally saw Kenneth Anger's "INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER" and "LUCIFER RISING", both are marvelous. I had seen others by him, like "SCORPIO RISING", before, but these 2 (which are available on one dvd) are highly commendable. -
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Tue, May 23, 2006 - 12:35 AMLEOLO by Jean-Claude Lauzon
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE by Krzysztof Kieslowski
THE PASSENGER by Michelangelo Antonioni
ANCHORESS by Chris Newby
THE SEVENTH SEAL by Ingmar Bergman
STEPPENWOLF by Fred Haines
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS by Frederico Fellini
SHADOWS OF OUR FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS by Sergei Parajanov
SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT by Wojciech Has
ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau
EL TOPO by Alejandro Jodorowsky
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES by Neil Jordan
STALKER by Andrei Tarkovsky
THE MIRROR by Andrei Tarkovsky
BLACK MOON by Louis Malle
THE LAST WAVE by Peter Weir
THE ELEMENT OF CRIME by Lars Von Trier
THE DEVILS OF LOUDON by Ken Russell
THE WICKER MAN by Robin Hardy
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Sun, April 16, 2006 - 4:27 AMsurprised that "Meetings With Remarkable Men" hadnt been mentioned yet.
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Sun, April 16, 2006 - 8:13 AMJust saw the movie 'cuckoo' last night (a russian film). It had a great sequence of primitive sorcery where a witch was bringing someone who was dying back.
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Sat, May 6, 2006 - 4:04 PMIt's possible that I missed it on the list, but:
The Doors and The Ninth Gate.
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Tue, May 9, 2006 - 9:42 PMJust finished reading a really good book on occult movies, albeit specifically the Devil & such, titled THE SATANIC SCREEN An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in the Cinema by Nikolas Schreck (!) - if I'm not mistaken, the author is a follower of the Left-Hand Path, so he tends to lambaste "christian propaganda" movies like the EXCORCIST and OMEN series. Also nicely illustrated.
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Tue, May 23, 2006 - 2:36 PMtry the 'last unicorn' -
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Tue, May 23, 2006 - 6:35 PMnot a movie but an anime.
ghost in the shell: stand alone complex season 1 season 2
it cool how they achieved a form of telepathy, clairvoyance, lucid dreaming, spirit possesion through technology.
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Thu, June 15, 2006 - 8:48 PMok i saw The Wicker Man, thank you for the recommendation. That movie is indelibly etched into my psyche. I also saw Excalibur but i didn't care for it much, i think they left out the parts of the story & character development that i enjoyed the most. I have Rabbit Proof Fence but haven't watched it yet, maybe tonight. Does anyone else think it has a shamanic theme? -
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Fri, June 16, 2006 - 7:13 AMThe Secret of Roan Inish...
The Ninth Gate sucked!! Read the book it was based on. Supremely better, the book CREATES its own mythos. -
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Fri, June 16, 2006 - 11:53 PMI liked The Ninth Gate AND El Club Dumas... they were both good. -
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Sat, June 17, 2006 - 10:13 PMFaust
Not Dr. Faustus but Faust.
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Sun, June 18, 2006 - 9:52 AMYes, Czech director Jan Svankmajer - he has a new one, LUNACY, which is parts Poe, parts De Sade, anarchic and funny. Saw it at Seattle Int'l Film Festival, where I also saw an excellent adaptation of Lovecraft's THE CALL OF CTHULU by Andrew Leman, made on a shoestring budget; as it was short, it had 2 shorts with it, one "TERRA INCOGNITA" by Peter Volkart, a 'pataphysical adventure, the other "THE RADIUM FOLLIES" by Sarah Birns, a black comedy/sci-fi.
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Fri, June 16, 2006 - 4:08 PMExcellent lists, all. I just boosted my dvd Q by quite a few.
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Fri, June 16, 2006 - 7:37 PM
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Tue, August 22, 2006 - 4:44 AMF for Fake
Being There
Jacob's Ladder
Dreams(Kurosawa)
Eraserhead
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Tue, August 22, 2006 - 12:21 PMoccult...
that which is hidden from the eye..
f for fake is a wonderful little series of bizarre philisophical turns of mind around the idea of hoaxes.
i particularly find the thought line around expertise pointful.
can you tell when it is a fake and when it's not?
it's like the story about the crossroads where you meet the guy who's supposed to direct you to a town, only he may be from a town of people who always lie.. so you have to know the specific questions that you are trying to ask.
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Thu, August 24, 2006 - 8:29 PMJacob's Ladder
Serpent and the Rainbow
Cool World
another vote for 9th Gate
and boy do I have a lot to rent now...some on the list look quite iiinteresting
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Thu, June 21, 2007 - 7:54 AMF is for fake .... is the ESSENCE of occult
occult = hidden knowledge
the nature of truth, as any practitioner of occult science ideally knows,
requires the understanding of lies.
How reality is formed by words, perception, "reality vs imagination"
is the essence of F is for Fake. The fact that it plays up the difference between
basic stage magic in realtionship to the true magic of shifting perception and therefore one's
reality all the while commenting on the role of media and film and the very film you are watching all the while makes it one of the greatest achievements (if basically a fairly good film) on the subject of the occult.
cheers
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Tue, August 29, 2006 - 9:10 PMthe new dvd edition is pretty awesome. it's like watching it again for the first time, with all the new detail. lovely, lovely movie. -
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Fri, September 1, 2006 - 4:13 PMHow bout a real occult film? I just watched the DVD of Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising with music by Pink Floyd, with a clip of Marianne Faithful supplied by Mick Jagger.
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Fri, September 1, 2006 - 6:03 PMSimon the Magician
a very interesting movie which is true to what magick really looks like. Besides the Very Cute Julie Delame. I'd watch it a thousand times just for her. lol
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Sun, September 3, 2006 - 1:08 AMalmost all films of bunuel - they are absolutely not declared magick,
but i think they are - that surrealistic dream stuff, completely normal situations
within completely strange plots or otherwise round and so on. Standard action
with very strange sidekicks exploding into, but no one even notes them, and so
on and so on ... great :)
Oh, btw.: not trying to advertise splatter movies, but films like "house by the cemetery"
fit very good in my above described pattern. Either one can described it as total crap
or as scenes from a nightmare. At least when considering how people act there.
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Sat, June 16, 2007 - 8:15 PMsince the last post on this old thread, i have seen Kenneth Anger's movie Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome...wonderfull! in fact, try this idea for a double feature & a short: watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, immediately followed by Anger's 6-minute short Puce Moment, immediately followed by Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, which, in terms of length, i think qualifies as a featurette. why watch these films in this order? well, to begin with, charcters from the first 2 appear in the third. :)
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Fri, July 6, 2007 - 8:16 PMI dunno if I liked the end of Holy Mountain or not (really, I'm split 50/50) but it was certainly worth watching.
hell, if only for the opening sequence. I want that room!
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 3:03 AMLots of good movies have been mentioned so I'll just add:
The Call of Cthulhu (the black & white, silent movie)
Solid Geometry (a 40 min moive kinda like Pi)
Pi: Faith in Chaos
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 7:50 PM
I would add two films by underground director JIM VANBEBBER from my home town, Dayton, OH. (he directed SKINNY PUPPY'S video for SPASMOLYTIC btw):
MY SWEET SATAN
CHARLIE'S FAMILY
these two films are based on historical events and CHARLIES FAMILY is one of the goriest portrayals of the manson cult killings out there. Every stab wound documented. The only thing not in the film is the evisceration of a pregnant Sharon Tate. I guess his producers had to draw the line somewhere. -
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 8:36 PMTHE LIBERTINE by Laurence Dunmore
THE TEMPEST by Derek Jarman
VERA by Francisco Athie
THE SEVENTH SEAL by Ingmar Bergman
SHADOWS OF OUR FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS by Sergei Parajanov
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Tue, June 19, 2007 - 11:31 PMJarman's 'TEMPEST" plucks the heart strings of my wildest imagination. Though it does not include all of Shakespeare's text, Jarman is faithful to the magickal essence of the story and directs it with the quirky theatricality he is known for. For me, it is his masterpiece. The riveting performances of Heathcote Williams (Prospero), Toyah Willcox (Miranda) and Jack Birkett (Caliban) embody the play's mysticism like a rosy cross submerged in the blood of the dying gods they represent.
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Thu, June 21, 2007 - 2:12 PMAlso, the SKINNY PUPPY offshoot-- DOWNLOAD released a "soundtrack" to CHARLIE'S FAMILY that is quite fun. -
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Fri, June 22, 2007 - 4:52 PMI recently found a 1992 movie on Mininova called 'The Resurrected', which is a very faithful and well-executed telling of 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'. Highly recommended! -
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Fri, June 22, 2007 - 9:30 PMyeah, that was a surprisingly faithful translation... Lovecraft movies in general seem to be cursed by bad translations - though I haven't seen any of the indie stuff the LFF people do. -
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Sat, June 23, 2007 - 10:09 AMWhat about occult comedy, Tom Selleck in "Daughters of Satan." -
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Sat, June 23, 2007 - 10:32 AMa guilty favorite of mine is "The Devil Rides Out" (based on the story of the same name), otherwise known as "The Devil's Bride"
fun with bad occult movies!:
The Gate
Witchboard
Night of The Demons
the "Head of The Class" episode of the 80's Amazing Stories TV show
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Sat, June 23, 2007 - 4:45 PMROSEMARY'S BABY
WIZARDS (the animated film by Ralph Bakshie (sp?)
BARAKA (if the shamanistic, tribal ritual elements are counting)
CLASH OF THE TITANS
SATYRICON (on the same Olympian Myth idea)
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 3:23 AMSo nobody has yet mentioned the Evil Dead movies, or am I just missing it? You know, where he reads from the Necronimicon, and gets possessed and ultimately dragged back in time to ancient Sumer?
I think 'Magnolia' is very occult, and I similarly like this new HBO show, 'John From Cincinnati'.
And if you're going to bring in 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' (and thank you for doing so), then you may as well include 'Escape to Witch mountain', and it's sequel. Not to mention that Mary Poppins is a witch, and her friend Bert is actually Papa Legba, guardian of the crossroads (hook him up with some change and he'll draw you a magic sidewalk picture to send you on a little trip).
I haven't seen the new Fantastic Four movie yet, but in any case, the FF are Earth, Air, Fire, and Water,, the Silver Surfer is Spirit, and Galactus represents The Void.
I think most if not all Cronenberg movies are occult. They're all about small groups of people who get tuned in to some reality-bending thing or idea, throw themselves into it full-throttle, quickly develop ill-conceived, ad-hoc hierarchies, and eventually succumb to schemes for power and mutual betrayal. Does that sound occult to anyone else, or is it just me?
'The Matrix' is a story about Initiation, 'Blade Runner' questions the human monopoly on reality.
On the new 'Battlestar Galactica', the humans are Pagans, descended from Apollo and Diana, et.al, while the Cylons are monotheist, believing each creature is a part of God's Plan, and the humans are basically rebellious or malfunctioning cogs. Another great SciFi show was Lexx, where the three main characters were personifications of Sex and Death, and a fragile human Ego suspended helplessly between them.
'What Dreams May Come' is a brilliant film about how your attitude creates your reality, and I think anyone practicing the Black Arts should watch the 1998 comedy 'Mystery Men'.
Oh, and 'Blue Velvet', about the thin veneer separating our comfort zone from The Outside World.
I'm sure Charlie Kaufman movies have a lot to say to magickians as well, but I can't claim to know what that might be (yet). -
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Mon, June 25, 2007 - 3:30 AMUpon review, I see that the Evil Dead movies did in fact get covered. Oops.
Props, Madame 7.
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Wed, June 27, 2007 - 8:44 PMSpeed. Also see Turner and Hooch -
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Thu, June 28, 2007 - 3:33 PMPeter Jacksons - Heavenly Creatures (based on true story)
The Fortress (the one with the nazis from then 80's)
Black Circle Boys - (based on true story)
the HELLRAISER movies - no one mentioned them -original sound track by COIL (not used) -
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Fri, July 6, 2007 - 6:57 PMHowl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki also)
Donnie Darko
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Dark Crystal
Jacob's Ladder
Paradise Lost (documentary)
Event Horizon
Gothic
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 2:35 PMHellraisers 1 and 2 were mentioned by HARLEQUIN about halfway down the page.
The rejected COIL musicK is fantastic, by the way. Too bad it didn't get in. -
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 11:24 PMI didn't like the acting or the script, but the concept of "The Matrix" is quite engaging. "Ground Hog Day" is an all time fave of mine. It plays out the idea of intention. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is a very clever play on the Freudian themes of id, ego, and repressed sexuality. "Eraser Head" was already mentioned, but I thought I'd second the motion. To me it seems to allude to the Thelemic concept of love under will. "Baraka" is a masterpiece that give one a feel for the interconnectedness of humanity. I could go on with other movies like "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" and "Evil Dead II", but I think I'd be stretching the meaning of the word "Occult". However, to me, anything that penetrates the collective consciousness qualifies. -
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Fri, January 30, 2009 - 3:07 PMim renting dr caligari -
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Sat, January 31, 2009 - 3:02 PMNightwatch. Sure the book is better, but it's great for it's use of the whole "what's really going on behind the curtain" aesthetic.
Daywatch, on the other hand, made my butt pucker. -
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Sun, February 1, 2009 - 8:55 AMnever heard that expression before .butt pucker. that means its good? right?
oh yeah i barely got net flix this week so i will be putting some of these titles in my queue. -
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Sun, February 1, 2009 - 3:00 PM"that means its good? right? "
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Sun, February 1, 2009 - 3:10 PMDAYWATCH is fucking awesome.
Homophobia aside keep your ass relaxed.
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Sun, February 1, 2009 - 4:08 PMLOL !!!!
i saw nightwatch and i thought it was pretty good
i wish they explained the whole strength and weaknesses of being a werewolf or a vampire in that universe
and they never explained that astral travel interdimensional like power either. it was a bit disjointed.
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Mon, February 2, 2009 - 8:03 PMMy problem with Daywatch is that they ran to the ending like they were being chased by crack addicts. I loved the general aesthetic of it but from a story standpoint I thought it was fail. -
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Thu, February 5, 2009 - 12:58 PMActually Daywatch fills in lots of the story details that are in the first book but which are not clearly developed in Nightwatch. It might be going by fast (more so as it progresses) but it definitely fleshes out the details of the characters and relationships from the first movie.
Also the the building energy is exciting.
But also just a different opinion.
cheers.
R.
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Sun, February 1, 2009 - 9:53 PMDon't know if anyone mentioned this one, but I just saw Ghostown which I thought was very good.
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Mon, March 23, 2009 - 4:42 PMMost of the following films mess with ideas of reality and consciousness, not really about magick, but people seem to be disagreeing on the definition of occult and I think they can all by deemed occult by at least some of your definitions. They're all worth a watch, anyway:
Dark City
The Nines
Existenz
Videodrome
Lost Highway
Vanilla Sky
Thirteenth Floor
Altered States
Being John Malkovich
Pan's Labyrinth
Labyrinth
Fight Club? (I dunno, maybe I'm wierd but there seems to be something magickal about MPD - It's kinda like invoking a magickal entity of one's own making - who knows, some cases could be genuine cases of possession by an external entity?)
Beetlejuice is a cool comedy occult film. I hear they're finally making films of the excellent William Gibson novel Neuromancer, and the comic Preacher (about a priest who gets possessed by a half-angel, half-demon and has the ability to use The Voice on people and make them do whatever he commands) -
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Mon, March 23, 2009 - 4:46 PMOh, and Flatliners... right, I'll probably think of loads more, but I'm gonna refrain from listing them coz I've already listed shitloads.
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Tue, March 24, 2009 - 7:03 AMgood to see Orson Welles' F FOR FAKE here! I've seen it ten times so far and each time I see more stuff!!
also, if you can find it, MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN, about Gurdjieff, is great.
A new-ish movie with Terrence McKenna called THE ALCHEMICAL DREAM, about John Dee, is fantastic! -
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Tue, March 24, 2009 - 7:04 AMoh, also, just saw CHEMICAL WEDDING, a horror film about the ghost of Crowley (!), was sorta interesting... but ultimately silly and not great. Worth seeing for some Crowley details they worked into it... -
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Tue, March 24, 2009 - 8:08 PMin Derek Jarman's movie Jubilee, John Dee invokes the angel Ariel to give Queen Elizabeth I a vision of the future. oh and thanks for the tip about The Alchemical Dream. saw the whole thing on Google Video today. good stuff! -
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Wed, March 25, 2009 - 9:36 AMkarate kid 1 and 2 -
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Wed, March 25, 2009 - 9:46 AMplease elaborate?
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