Satan's Black Wedding movie

Year: 1980

Duration: 01:02:13

Directed by: Nick Millard

Actors: Greg Braddock, Ray Myles, Lisa Milano and Barrett Cooper

Language: English

Country: USA

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Description:The plot of “Satan’s Black Wedding” is quite short and simple. A young woman committed suicide for unknown reasons, and her brother is taking a trip to her funeral. During the movie he finds out that his sister is a vampire, who returns from dead to have revenge for her family

Some notes from me:

Hardcore sex pioneer Nick Millard (aka Nick Phillips, and many other pseudonyms) suddenly shifted gears in the mid-70’s when he moved from porn to schlocky horror…or seemingly so. In fact, the aberrant state of mind of Ethel in Millard’s next drive-in gorefest has its antecedent in the cracked psyche of titular Roxanna (one of Millard’s superlative forays into early hardcore). And although he could make bright (his socio-cultural determinism still obtaining) hippie free-love films (The Pleasure Spots, Dedicato), his tones are generally downbeat, at best. He could be taken, for that, as an arch-conservative…but all of those natural breasts and furry mounds tend to excuse the political.

I’ve only very recently begun to explore Millard’s world, and it’s been one of the more notable cinematic discoveries for me in a long time. Somehow, being his own producer, he could both make what he wanted and effectively squash his own work for nearly 30 years (just the sort of short-circuiting his characters most-often irreconcilably experience). All that began to change a few years ago, when his Bergmanesque proto-porn began showing up on DVD.

It’s ironic that Criminally Insane is his best-known film. As jaggedly as it presents it’s shocks, in Millard’s typically jeweler’s-eye 16mm, it nonetheless veers far from Millard’s previous total lack of irony, in a series of beautiful and distinctive sex films that have few rivals. The more Millard I see, the more I am impressed, and inclined to put him in a highly personal pantheon where Radley Metzger and Joe Sarno hold sway.

Satan’s Blood Wedding grasps a specificity of time and place – here, Monterey, CA – in the usual manner Millard had perfected: quick iconic flashes of people, places and things, montages, naked voiceovers…a plethora of affect in shorthand, never long impinging on the exploitative angle (sex, previously…gory shocks here).

And also as usual, he asks for barely an hour of your time. The Roger Stein score, plaintively off-key piano, largely, is a very nice compliment.

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Satan’s Black Wedding 1980

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