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Open the Gate: Heavy Metal as a Gateway to Ritual and the Satanic Panic in The Gate
Midnight screening of The Gate, with introduction by Terrence Hannum (Locrian, paintings). Only $5.
The Gate
Tibor Takacs, Canada/USA, 1987, 85 mins.
All hell breaks loose-literally-when two teens accidentally open a gateway to Hell with the power of Heavy Metal in this classic from the '80s starring a young Stephen Dorff! Artist Terence Hannum will look at the Satanic Panic of the 1980s surrounding heavy metal music and how it was scapegoated (sometimes willingly) by religious organizations and the PMRC. He will also discuss framing music as a conjurer of sometimes negative forces and heavy metal as a medium for reconnecting us to rituals in a society thought to be divorced from it.
http://www.facets.org/pages/nightschool.php#thegate
Midnight screening of The Gate, with introduction by Terrence Hannum (Locrian, paintings). Only $5.
The Gate
Tibor Takacs, Canada/USA, 1987, 85 mins.
All hell breaks loose-literally-when two teens accidentally open a gateway to Hell with the power of Heavy Metal in this classic from the '80s starring a young Stephen Dorff! Artist Terence Hannum will look at the Satanic Panic of the 1980s surrounding heavy metal music and how it was scapegoated (sometimes willingly) by religious organizations and the PMRC. He will also discuss framing music as a conjurer of sometimes negative forces and heavy metal as a medium for reconnecting us to rituals in a society thought to be divorced from it.
http://www.facets.org/pages/nightschool.php#thegate
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