The I'm going to be. By the late 60s and early 70s, Satanism and the occult had fully

infiltrated mainstream

comedy comedy shows like Bewitched and blockbuster horror films like Rosemary's

Baby and the Exorcist were cashing in on the satanic panic, although these movies ultimately still adopted traditional

Christian viewpoints on the occult.

Devil bad, God good.

However, away from the mainstream good.

However, away from the mainstream Hollywood studio, some art house and experimental filmmakers were

making far more subversive and boundary-p pushing occult movies.

Across a period of 20 years from the 1950s to the 1970s

experimental filmmaker and occultist Kenneth Anger

made a series of short films that made up a collection called

the Magic Lantern Cycle.

These movies were influenced by the teachings of Alistair Crowley,

and they all consisted of bizarre imagery that merged surrealism,

homoerroticism, and the occult.

Most of the films were completely dialogue-free and have no narrative to speak of.

But, due to Angar's own connections, many were filmic collaborations with hugely popular artists of the time,

such as Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page.

Rather than telling conventional stories, the films themselves felt like they were part of some kind of occult ritual, a mass.

One of his strangest and most accomplished films, Lucifer Rising, ended up being nearly 20 years in the making.

This is partly due to one key collaborator, becoming a member of the Manson family and ending up in prison for murder.

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