The Witch – Satanic Screenings Scheduled!
What better place could there possibly be to see The Witch (review) than The Satanic Temple? Interested in this latest announcement? Throw up your devil horns and read on!
Beginning February 10 in New York City, The Satanic Temple (TST) will launch advance screenings of the highly-anticipated historical horror film The Witch amid interactive performances and ritualized pronouncements of a “new Satanic era.” The Witch, opening in theatres nationwide on February 19 opposite faith-based biblical thriller Risen, has received the official sanction of TST and has been described by Jex Blackmore (TST National Spokesperson) as a “transformative Satanic experience” unto itself.
Set in 17th century Puritan New England, the film “departs from the victim narrative” of witchcraft and stands as a “declaration of feminine independence.” Blackmore explains, “We are empowered by the narrative of The Witch: a story of pathological pride, old-world religious paradigms, and an outsider who grabs persecution by the horns.”
It’s a theme that resonates with TST, best known for their activist efforts to ensure plurality in what they see as an increasingly theocratic America. In conjunction with the film premieres, and in the spirit of their religious activism, TST has launched the website satanic-revolution.com, where newcomers can join and/or support their high-profile campaigns, officially registering themselves into “The Book of Satan.”
Following the screening in New York will be a screening in Los Angeles, followed by a pointed trip into Texas, targeted for what Blackmore describes as its unique stature as “a stronghold of regressive theocratic, persecutory anti-intellectualism.” This film, TST is confident, will signal the call-to-arms for a Satanic uprising against the tyrannical vestiges of bigoted superstitions and will harken a new era of liberation and unfettered inquiry.
The four-part tour of interactive performances, entitled “The Sabbat Cycle,” mirrors the phases of “becoming” in the personal road to Satanism. The cycle begins with the theme of “Awakening” to the primal self, followed by the “Rebellion” of oppressive traditions, a “Convocation” of the Satanic coalition, and finally, an “Ascension.” The tour will end in Detroit at the end of the month. Interested participants should visit satanic-revolution.com for details regarding access to these events, which are limited.
- NYC SPECIAL SCREENING + EVENT “Awaken” – DATE: Wednesday, February 10
- LA SPECIAL SCREENING + EVENT “Rebel” – DATE: Friday, February 12
- AUSTIN SPECIAL SCREENING + PUBLIC RITUAL “Convoke” – DATE: Tuesday, February 16
- DETROIT SPECIAL SCREENING “Ascend” – DATE: TBA
In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic, and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling.
https://youtu.be/v-yD_smDu7Q
Directed and written by Robert Eggers, the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson.
To learn more, visit the official The Witch website, “like” The Witch on Facebook, and follow The Witch on Twitter.
Synopsis:
Set in New England circa 1630, The Witch follows a farmer who get cast out of his Colonial plantation and is forced to move his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest rumored to be controlled by witches. Almost immediately, strange and unsettling things begin to happen–the animals turn violent, the crops fail, and one of the children disappears, only to return seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. As suspicion and paranoia mount, everyone begins to point the finger at teenage daughter Thomasin. They accuse her of witchcraft, which she adamantly denies… but as circumstances become more and more treacherous, each family member’s faith, loyalty, and love will be tested in shocking and unforgettable ways.
Writer/director Robert Eggers’ debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (and won the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition), painstakingly recreates a God-fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions and pagan folklore famously clashed. Told through the eyes of the adolescent Thomasin — in a star-making turn by newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy — and supported by mesmerizing camera work and a powerful musical score, The Witch is a chilling and groundbreaking new take on the genre.
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