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A film where Christopher Lee performs real ceremonial magic techniques should be a shoo-in for our Classics of Pagan Cinema, right? Not so fast, writes Meg Elison, who reviews the 1968 film “The Devil Rides Out” and finds it not just flawed, but repellent.
“The poet wrings a forever from Death, the only lover he will ever have who can really promise him that.” Meg Elison reviews Jean Cocteau’s 1950 classic ORPHEUS as part of our Classics of Pagan Cinema series.
Meg Elison reviews Liam Gavin’s 2016 occult horror drama, A Dark Song, for our Classics of Pagan Cinema series.
“Am I seeking, or am I being sought?” Meg Elison reviews J. Lee Thompson’s EYE OF THE DEVIL (1966), a classic of pagan horror that revolves around the myth of the Sacred King.
In the first of a new occasional series, weekend editor Eric O. Scott looks back at Jean Cocteau’s 1946 classic, La Belle et la Bête, with an eye to its Pagan themes.