satanic panic

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

Frankly, it's not hard to see the similarities between the two, between Rosemary's Baby and The Mephisto Waltz, or at least the imprint of one on the other. We've got this educated passing for sophisticated, sufficiently urbane couple, and they're drawn in by a pair of Satanists of indeterminate age, and then they get involved in magic that benefits the Satanists more than the sweet young couple. So it's a little bit Faustian, but it's got jazz hands.

The House of the Devil (2009)

The House of the Devil (2009)

This is going to sound weird, but I have great memories of the Satanic Panic eighties. I grew up in a small town in northeast Pennsylvania. I spent a lot of time with my friends exploring abandoned industrial buildings off in the woods. There were a lot of pentagrams. There were a lot of 6-6-6s. And by the time I was in maybe the fourth or fifth grade, there were legitimate articles in local papers about desecrations at cemeteries.