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Voodoo:

oder auch Vodun, Voudou, Vaudou, Wudu oder Wodu

als eine synkretistische Religion, was folgendes besagt:

die Bezeichnung der Vermischung verschiedenster Religionen und religiösen Bräuchen zu einem neuen System (Religion) oder zu einem neuen Weltbild

dessen Ursprung in Westafrika liegt; und heute, unteranderem, in den Regionen und Gesellschaften der:

Kreolen und in Haiti vorkommt.

Santería:

Spanisch für „Weg der Heiligen“

als eine synkretistisch afroamerikanische Religion und

Hauptreligion in Kuba, Karibik, Mittelamerika

die die Religionen des Orishas (Götter der Santaría) bzw. die Götter der Religionen der Yoruba, wie der Santería, wie der brasilianischen Candomblé und der sowohl in Brasilien, Argentinien wie in Uruguay vorkommenden Umbanda vermischt.

Soweit die Grundlage, die Einordnung, der Hintergrund, die sicherlich zu innigen und…

The Believers. I am not one. I've called myself agnostic, or a non-believer in the past, to sugar the pill and avoid friction maybe, but the truth is, I'm an atheist. Always was, always will be. Religion is an anathema to me. And I don't discriminate, I'm not prejudiced; I hate them all. In my opinion, religion is the single worst invention in human history - ideologies created, and they were all created, with the intention of spreading mind worms to take root in their hosts, and control them. The internalization of dogma to the point where it becomes indistinguishable from free thought. They're enemies of free thought. It's overt with modern religions like Scientology - its not-so-deeply rooted sci-fi…

John Schlesinger's horror-thriller, "The Believers," is a watchable, sometimes gripping film that suffers from a muddled plot and histrionic highs before coming back down to Earth with a creepy, little epilogue. Its pieces do not all fit well together, but the film makes for a serviceable chiller.

Martin Sheen plays a police therapist who moves to New York after the tragic death of his wife. There, he and his son get embroiled in domestic melodrama, grisly animal and human killings, and a some kind of cult plot. There are a whole lot of narrative threads, and, though the film works hard to keep them all in line, the story ends up tangled.

Sheen is solid as the quickly recovering therapist,…

Author's Note: I am going to listen to Slayer's Reign In Blood (1986) as many times as needed until I am finished writing this review because Slayer's Reign In Blood fucking rules and this movie fucking sucks. Enter To The Realm Of Satan!!! <3

Among the most execrable wastes of cinemagickal bad faith produced accidentally? in/for tradcath projection reversal at Satanic Panic Height: yeah uh, its definitely NOT US who are sacrificing your children for our own perverse desires as well as to gain/maintain unimaginable wealth, worldly power and absolute freedom from consequence, that would be the, uh, the unholy alliance between the globalized financal elites of new york city and the black and brown immigrants they bring to this…

An A-list cultist thriller with effective moments from a sceenplay by second-half "Twin Peaks" scribe Mark Frost. It's quite rough around the edges with obvious zoomed-in red herrings that'll make the attentive viewer easily predict what comes next.

The pre-credits sequence was effectively eerie by introducing an effective "shocker" but the film went a little downhill from there, going into a crime procedural involving the sacrifice of young children by a brujería-inspired cult. Martin Sheen starred as the worried father working on the force as a psychiatrist, getting deeper into the cultists influences at every turn. Cultural religious panic all over the place.

The impressive cast and their performances kept this from falling down a below average score with the…

God can't save you, the Church can't save you. They get right inside your body you can't stop them. The Seven Powers. You... you think that you can stop them? You think that science can stop them? Ohh... oh God.

When I watched The Believers for the first time as a tennager it blew me away.
This combination of occult horror and neo noir was completely new to me and led me to other good films like Lords of Illusions.
Since then I held it in high regards and now it was time to revisit it because I remembered almost nothing besides a factory and Martin Sheen as protagonist.

Martin Frost, co creator of Twin Peaks, wrote the script and…

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Nach einem herben Schicksalsschlag zieht der Kriminalpsychologe Cal mit seinem achtjährigen Sohn Chris zurück nach New York.
Dort geraten sie in einen Strudel okkulter Machenschaften und Ritualmorde...

Alle paar Jahre wieder leg ich mir den Film in den Player mit dem Wissen hier einen außergewöhnlichen und auch obskuren Film von John Schlesinger zu genießen.
John Schlesinger ist für mich ein spannender Regisseur und zeichnet sich durch vielseitige Projekte aus und wie hier flirtet er gar gern mit dem Genre-Kino. John Schlesinger´s Werk lässt sich schwer kategorisieren, bietet gerade dadurch einen reichhaltigen Fundus besonderer Filme.
Ob der MARATHON-MANN, oder DER FALKE UND DER SCHNEEMANN, natürlich MIDNIGHT COWBOY, oder der unterschätzte PACIFIC HEIGHTS: Alle hinreichend mit hohem Qualitäten…