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HOCUS POCUS 2

September 29, 2022 By 1 Comment

HOCUS POCUS 2

If you were even mildly enchanted, amused, chilled, or any combination of those three, by the original HOCUS POCUS, I beg you to avoid the sequel at all costs. It is a travesty of a flick, and an insult to that darkly whimsical tale of 29 years ago. To remind you, it introduced us to… Read More »

Tagged With: black-flame candle, costume contest, Halloween, ritual, Salem, sequel, witches

HELL HOUSE – DVD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HELL HOUSE – DVD

HELL HOUSE is one of the scariest documentaries you will ever see. In it, fundamentalists with what they consider to be the purest of motives, put on a Halloween house in which scenarios are staged depicting violence that is intensely disturbing both emotionally and graphically. It’s all meant to convert the unsaved by demonstrating a… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Cedar Hill, Christianity, damnation, documentary, fundamentalism, George Ratliff, Halloween, Hell, homophobia, misogyny, Texas, Trinity Church

George Ratliff Guides Us Through HELL HOUSE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

George Ratliff Guides Us Through HELL HOUSE

George Ratliff’s documentary, HELL HOUSE, chronicles the building of a Halloween house that doesn’t purvey ghouls, werewolves, or vampires. Instead, this brainchild of the sincere folks of Trinity Church in Texas use the concept of a Halloween fright fest to convert the unsaved to their brand of fundamentalism. A fundamentalism in which abortion, raves, and Harry Potter are presented as… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Cedar Hill, Christianity, damnation, documentary, fundamentalism, George Ratliffe, Halloween, Hell, homophobia, misogyny, Texas, Trinity Church

Alex Mar and the AMERICAN MYSTIC

October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Alex Mar and the AMERICAN MYSTIC

As we head into the holiday season, Halloween just passed, and the quasi-religious rituals surrounding our national holidays of Thanksgiving and the orgy of spending that has become Christmas on the horizon, KMR takes a look back to a conversation with Alex Mar for her 2010 documentary AMERICAN MYSTIC. Mar’s film looks at the draw… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Mar, ceremony, Halloween, Lakota Sioux, Native-American, pagan, ritual, spirituality, Sundance, witchcraft

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