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While you can say that this is but an 11-minute movie, this Kenneth Anger directed, edited and photographed work of art — complete with Moog soundtrack by Mick Jagger — is one of the films that started midnight movies.
Assembled from what remains of the first version of Lucifer Rising, this movie strobes your mind with an assemblage of Anton LaVey presiding over a public funeral for a cat, the cast smoking out of a human skull, Anger on stage leading a ritual, nude men, Vietnam footage, the Stones playing their ill-fated Altamount show and is itself a ritual that follows Crowley's Holy Law of Thelema in that one must master this universe before achieving the mindset needed to become your own god.
You could also say that it's a lot of noise over a collage of imagery. Or perhaps Anger's theory of film as magickal weapon is true. If you follow the logic that this isn't for everyone, then you believe in Crowley's thought process and how he claimed the esoteric would become "that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct."
Evolution will only come by shocking our senses and overloading them with tones, with colors, with images.
Obviously, Bobby Beausoleil is Lucifer and the connections between the occult and the loathsome Manson Family will always be cited.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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I've previously enjoyed losing myself in Mr. Anger's mad, colorful images, but with his Invocation of My Demon Brother, conjuring themes of paganism and the occult, I just felt, well, lost.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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Mick Jagger was doing Sonic Youth in 1969 set to strange, dark, and sexually charged images in Kenneth Anger's memorable "Invocation of My Demon Brother".
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/14/23
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Kenneth Anger provided the bizarre images that evoke Satanism and the Occult, with an irritating moog synthesizer soundtrack provided by Mick Jagger. Admittedly it is not Jagger's best work. I'm honestly not that qualified to say whether or not it is Anger's best work. This film was an early midnight movie, and it's easy to see hippies and college kids getting high and watching this.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/17/23
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Loved it, though I confess the music got on my nerves after the first couple of minutes. Frigging creepy though. Plus I think I read somewhere the albino is committing suicide on camera.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/25/23
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This is the stuff MTV is made of today. So we have sacrilegy, paganism, witchcraft, nudity, satanism, Bobby Beausoleil, Anton LaVey, Jagger's impaling score, Kenneth Anger as "The Magick" and Rolling Stones perfoming on stage. There is NOTHING else you could ask for; your mind shall be raped brutally in the place it hurts the most.
99/100
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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