Hail Satan? (2019)
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Premise: This is a documentary about The Satanic Temple. It tells you how things got started, how a completely non-theistic religion became an extremely effective grassroots/political weapon and also about laffing and enjoying our very precious, very limited time on earth, and why we should cherish goats and hail Our Lord and Master. It is a surprisingly optimistic movie/documentary! And yeah it also might be about shooting blood out of your c-
Under 90 minutes? no! five minutes over that
Do they say the title? Oh trust me they do.
One sentence review: Oh hell yeah this is an awesome documentary!
Okay, more: Yup, six years in, this is still one of the funniest and at the same time most interesting documentaries you can watch. Sure, it’s extremely focused on pre-covid US but I mean, at this point doesn’t that make it even more relevant today?
A simple way to improve it: I would have liked this a tinby bit more if they had gone hammier about the political side of things and said what it should have said about LaVey and the Church of Satan (they were/ they are nazis and they suck).
Trivia about the IMDb trivia:
Throughout the film, members of the Satanic Temple claim America is a theocracy. America is in fact not on the list of world theocracies and was never a theocracy at any point in its history. In addition, theocracies clearly state in their rule of law whether they are a theocracy; America doesn’t say that in any founding document.
Yeah fuck you, Mr Dictionary.
You will die alone and it’ll suck almost as much as you do.