Excess of Evil

7/2/03 to 8/31/03

  • Simon of the Desert, July 23

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  • THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW

    • Wednesday, August 27 7:30

    "A rare treat for horror connoisseurs. The stark, grisly tale of the piece-by-piece arrival of a devil in a 1670 rural British community presages nothing so much as the bold, myth-evoking, gut-churning literature of Clive Barker in the '80s....The mood is perfect and spellbinding for a lurid fable of atavistic regression."-Village Voice

  • SALVATION!

    • Wednesday, August 20 7:30

    A bit of blackmail against an Oral Roberts–like preacher raises Exene Cervenka from trailer trash to televangelist in Beth B's satire that takes "amusing jabs at hypocrisy, born-again but cash in advance."-Variety

  • THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN

    • Wednesday, August 13 7:30

    The ultimate retirement film: needing new bodies to occupy, aging Satanists take up residence in a small California town and begin to harvest its young citizens. Delightfully smarmy Strother Martin is leader of the pact.

  • ROSEMARY'S BABY

    • Wednesday, August 6 7:30

    The devil visits Central Park West and the friendly neighborhood coven begins to take an unsettling interest in expectant mother Mia Farrow. Roman Polanski's still-tingling film "elaborates a worldview in which evil is the quiet, unsensational medium that modern people breathe."-Village Voice

  • THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

    • Wednesday, July 30 7:30

    A recently restored print of Charles Laughton's first and final directorial effort, a lush Southern Gothic nightmare starring Robert Mitchum as the archetypal evil preacher. "So aberrant and singular it may properly be called the first Hollywood cult movie."-Village Voice

  • SIMON OF THE DESERT

    • Wednesday, July 23 7:30

    The devil takes many guises to tempt Saint Simon Stylites from his pedestal in Buñuel's wicked satire of religion and hypocrisy. With The Lash of the Penitentes.

  • THE LASH OF THE PENITENTES

    • Wednesday, July 23 7:30

    Members of the notorious Penitentes sect follow a bloody path to salvation in a scandalous 1930s exposé. With Simon of the Desert.

  • INCUBUS

    • Wednesday, July 16 7:30

    Producer Anthony M. Taylor in Person. Unholy spirits stalk the mythic Big Sur coast speaking Esperanto in this legendary production, shot in stunning black and white and starring William Shatner as a noble young soldier menaced by a comely succubus.

  • THE DEVILS

    • Wednesday, July 9 7:30

    Ken Russell indulges in historical hysterics: Mother Superior Vanessa Redgrave lusts after Father Oliver Reed, a priest accused of inciting devilish doings, in a deliciously decadent and scathing vision of Cardinal Richelieu's France.

  • GOD TOLD ME TO

    • Wednesday, July 2 7:30

    A Catholic New York detective seeks the motive behind a series of seemingly random killings and discovers a new species of divinity. Out of the rubble of genre, director Cohen conjures a work of startling iconoclasm.