Word: occulted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...happens, I woke in the middle of the night, and it came to me that there may have been, after all, some hilarious parable at work in my evening, some occult line drawn between the prophet Hosea and the coming election. For surely, said I to myself, our presidential politics (given the necessities of fund-raising) has become a form of harlotry. The Constitution commands us to choose a president as God commanded Hosea to choose a wife. Our predicament as voters has something in common with Hosea...
Trying to manufacture camp on purpose is as fruitless as trying to make primitive art in a factory. But that's the blatant aim of this remake of a 1973 occult cult classic--hence the over-the-top visual effects, the showy lesbian overtones and the general '70s-horror vibe. Casting Kate Jackson, from the original Satan, shows how desperately this 6-6-sex flick wants cult cred. And casting Shannen Doherty of Charmed reminds us that there's cooler supernatural programming on several nights a week...