Plan ten, the super shangri-la show & amoeba records present
Def by Temptation
5:00 PM, Friday 2/20
A deadly succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York City, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop who specializes in cases involving the supernatural. Blood, gore, and non-PC humor ensue.
“Def By Temptation is smart, sexy, chaotic, and weirdly progressive.”
(Sharai Bohannon, Dread Central)
Directed by James Bond III
The return of the great god pan
7:00 PM, Friday 2/20
A baby of mysterious origin disrupts the lives of a troubled suburban couple and brings a renegade priest and a Pagan cult into a conflict that threatens to end the Christian era.
Who will emerge victorious?
Inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan.
Directed by Brett Stillo
jigoku (sinners in hell)
9:00 PM, Friday 2/20
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. Then...things get worse. Much, much worse.
Rarely screened, Jigoku's fascinating and extremely graphic (predating H.G. Lewis’s Blood Feast by several years) depiction of Buddhist Hell, along with its noir-esque tone and surreal elements, has deservedly made this a cult classic. Absolutely mandatory viewing!
“Jigoku is more than merely a boundary-pummeling classic of the horror genre—it’s as lurid a study of sin without salvation as the silver screen has ever seen.” (Chuck Stephens, The Criterion Collection)
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
image of the beast
12 Noon, Saturday, 2/21
Image of the Beast’s depiction of the terrors of an Antichrist-run One World Government where those who refuse to receive the Mark of the Beast are guillotined by UNITE (United Nations Imperium for Total Emergency) stormtroopers gave nightmares to more than a few Baptist children who saw it in Sunday School.
Mark IV Productions’ Thief in the Night films of the 1970s and 1980s were hugely successful evangelical thriller and horror films despite being fairly obscure outside of their target audience.
Image of the Beast is the third and wildest film in the series, with surprisingly proto-cyberpunk aspects and the fulfillment of (some) Apocalyptic prophecies inventively depicted on a budget somewhat lower than DeMille employed for the Plagues of Egypt in The Ten Commandments.
Directed by Donald W. Thompson
CAVALCADE OF SHORTS!
2:00 PM, Saturday 12/21
We begin with some highlights of “Christsploitation” masters Ron and June Ormond’s collaborations with Pastor Estus E. Pirkle, providing a compelling contrast with the comparatively refined approach of Image of the Beast. “Blood will flow like water!”
Directed by Ron Ormond
1971, 1974, 12 min
Mud and Fire: Turkish Theological Horror
We then hop across the globe for scenes of exorcism and a mystic mano a mano in the fiery underworld from two Turkish horror movies that seek to elucidate the relation between humans, demons, and Allah.
Directed by Metin Erksan and Hasan Karacadağ
1974, 2008, 30 min
Reliquary: Confession
Peer into the abyss where dread ancient gods dwell and demand that faith in them be demonstrated.
Directed by Lindsay Morrison
2024, 11 min
The Data is Wrong
Imagine a cross between two classic works of the Twentieth Century: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science fiction novel Hard to Be A God and the Alice Cooper song “Second Coming.”
Directed by Austin Charlesworth
2025 7min
A Portrait of God
A disturbing response to the age-old question, “What does God look like?” As YHWH (or “I Am”) says in the Book of Exodus, “No man shall see me and live.”
Directed by Dylan Clark
2022, 7 min
eyes of fire
4:00 PM, Saturday 12/21
An adulterous preacher and his followers flee to “the promised land” of the American colonial frontier only to enter a valley of lust, madness, pagan vengeance and hallucinatory terror.
“As if The Scarlet Letter had zoomed into the future and collided with the movie version of The Exorcist.” (Caryn James, New York Times).
Directed by Avery Crounse
eye of the devil
6:00 PM, Saturday 12/21
The persistence of pagan practices among the French peasantry in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region presents a sticky wicket for David Niven.
When times are tough...human sacrifice!
Joining Niven in this eerie journey through the Cathar stronghold of the Occitan is an all-star cult cast including Deborah Kerr, Sharon Tate, David Hemmings (Blow Up), and the always wonderful Donald Pleasance.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
god told me to
8:00 PM, Saturday 12/21
A jaw-dropping horror/science fiction/police procedural starring Tony Lo Bianco (The Honeymoon Killers, The French Connection) with golden age of Hollywood star Sylvia Sidney (whose film career spanned 1926 to 1998!) and a brief appearance by Andy Kaufman as lagniappe.
We don't want to even hint at the the twists and turns of God Told Me To for the sake of those unfamiliar with it (of whom there seem to be more than a few: it made Rolling Stone's list of the “20 Scariest Films You've Never Seen”).
“God Told Me To is a film of contrasts, most notably between queer and straight, male and female, heaven and hell, hope and hopelessness, repression and progression, and law and anarchy.”
(Chuck Bowen, Slant)
Directed by Larry Cohen
alucarda
10:00 PM, Saturday 12/21
We conclude with an incredible visionary masterpiece of Satanism and demonic possession from one of Mexico’s all-time great cult directors (and producer of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films).
“The strongest, most imaginative, and visually stunning witch movie since Ken Russell's The Devils...
More blood, loud screaming, and nudity than any other horror film I can think of.”
(Michael Weldon, Psychotronic)
Directed by Juan López Moctezuma
about the fear and faith horror festival
Religious iconography is commonly used in horror films as easily comprehensible symbols representing a societal status quo that is threatened by an external menace.
We are presenting films that have religious faith and doubt as central elements to the films and not mere window dressing, whether presented in a positive, negative, or ambiguous manner.
tickets available from orindamovies.com
Individual screenings: $15
Friday Evening Pass (3 movies): $25
Saturday All Day Pass (5 features + Cavalcade of Shorts): $30
Full Festival Pass (Friday Evening and All Day Saturday): $50
