‘Satanis, The Devil’s Mass’
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the Alamo Drafthouse’s American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) and Something Weird have joined forces to remaster and re-release some of American cinema’s hidden genre gems beginning next Summer.
Today, the first batch of films has been revealed, which you can take a look at below, along with a few of the future titles they have planned for release. I’m a huge supporter of film preservation, especially weird genre stuff, so I’m 100% in support of this project and can’t wait to see some of these movies. Hopefully they do the same thing to VHS releases in the future.
THE ZODIAC KILLER
Made in hopes of capturing the real-life Zodiac Killer, but the plan didn’t work. Instead, we got the most outrageous and compelling “tabloid horror” vortex in the history of the universe. Paired with ANOTHER SON OF SAM, a lo-fi proto-slasher that has nothing to do with Son of Sam, let alone another Son of Sam.
THE CURIOUS DR. HUMPP
If FRANKENSTEIN was re-imagined by Kenneth Anger as a softcore body-horror epic with a monster who plays guitar, it still wouldn’t be as wild as this legendary Argentinian mind-melter. Paired with ROOM OF CHAINS, a sick-o-delic black mass perversion party from the foothills of France.
POT! PARENTS! POLICE!
This is an After School Special gone bad about a teenager’s slow descent into weed-fueled mania. FYI, this was the first — and last — movie made to play exclusively at Jerry Lewis’s chain of theaters in the 1970s. Paired with THE DEVIL’S JOINT, a bizarro anti-weed documentary that was definitely made by art school drop-outs.
FLESHPOT ON 42ND STREET
A gender-bending NYC smut-opera and accidental masterpiece, and also the greatest film from infamous no-budget wildman Andy Milligan. Paired with GURU, THE MAD MONK, Milligan’s unhinged, DARK SHADOWS-inspired gore opera.
SATANIS, THE DEVIL’S MASS
Unseen and unbelievable cinéma vérité exposé on Anton LaVey, America’s favorite leader of the Church of Satan. Paired with VOODOO BLACK EXORCIST, a grunge-horror mind-blast from Spain that is as good as it sounds.
SHE MOB
The greatest girl gang sexploitation gutter-epic that John Waters never made. Filmed in Texas, where life is cheap! Paired with HOTTER AFTER DARK, a gutter-noir private eye sex-party that was filmed in Florida, where life is cheaper!
Future releases include:
AROUSED paired with FLY NOW, PAY LATER
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR paired with THE GUY FROM HARLEM
THE GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS paired with THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT
LOVE AFTER DEATH paired with SEX ON THE GROOVE TUBE
THE LOVE FEAST paired with NECROMANIA
THE MONSTER AT CAMP SUNSHINE paired with PROFESSOR LUST
SATAN’S CHILDREN paired with THINGS TO COME
TALES OF A SALESMAN paired with VOICES OF DESIRE
THE VIOLENT YEARS paired with ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO
