In 1989, I met Anton LaVey for the first time. At this time in his life, LaVey was seeing only a select few people. For this film, I've met and interviewed some of them, to try and create a composite image of what he was really like, and what he meant to these people. It's a memory lane trip, filled with personal stories, dark humor, great music and never before seen material with the Black Pope himself.
Direction
Abrahamsson's insider access creates uncomfortable intimacy.
Editing
Never-before-seen footage woven through unreliable memories.
Director
Carl Abrahamsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Carl Abrahamsson was a personal friend of LaVey and published the Church of Satan's newsletter in Sweden—this isn't outsider filmmaking, it's hagiography with teeth.
LaVey's 1966 founding of the Church coincided with the Summer of Love; he was essentially the dark twin to hippie utopianism, and both movements curdled into spectacle by the '80s.
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