Episode 142 - The Golden Age of Hollywood Satanism
Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses
Release Date: 04/18/2023
Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses
We lean even leftier than usual as we chart a path from demon sex to "hidden masters" to this oft-referenced but little understood religious perspective.
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We play bingo to beat the worst of 90s Satanic Panic copaganda.
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It's definitely not safe to get back in the water.
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When it comes to Satan we're true believers, but what do our Satanist peers and antecedents really believe in, and why is so much of it so weird?
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The forbidden fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
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Blasphemy: Is it a means to an end, or just a means to offend? We've got unspeakable opinions on Blasphe-Me and Blasphe-You, with Dex and Chalice.
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The most bewitching witching hour, from Spectres to Satanisms to feminist revolutions.
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While modern research digs at the roots of our evolutionary tree, the public's relationship with science is in danger of becoming dead wood. Aron Ra joins us for a discussion about ancient ancestors and modern misconceptions.
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Something Wicker this way comes, as we rekindle our interest the most heathenish of horror classics, 50 years after it scared the Hell into audiences.
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Author Jack Legg is here to dig up all the dirt on the Satanic Panic in his own backyard with his new book "Digging Up Devils," the story of 80 human sacrifices that never happened.
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SHOW LINKS
- KSAT: San Antonio man wrongfully convicted in 1991 has charges dismissed in Satanic Panic case
- Australian Center for the Moving Image: Early Hollywood and the Hays Code
- Faust (1926)
- The Magician (1926)
- The Black Cat (1934)
- Horror In the Movies, by Daniel Cohen (1982)
- American Film Institute Catalog: The Black Cat
- Classics Of the Horror Film, by William K Everson (1974)
- The History of Horror Cinema: The Black Cat, Ian Champion (2016)
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