The film is a study of Anton Szandor LaVey, leader of a cult of devil worshipers in San Francisco. He and his Church of Satan are shown performing a black mass, in which a nude woman serves as an ...

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 ...

In the movie, Prospero isn’t just a rich jerk ... Corman released The Masque of the Red Death in 1964, and Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan in 1966. It’s not hard to see a parallel ...