But what is the Church of Satan? Who is Anton LaVey? Where is he from? Why does he do that? It does not take much to imagine the worst. Orgiastic ceremonies, where one revels in the blood of virgins, moonlight lamb sacrifices, noise concerts in the basement of a historical building… No, really nothing that amusing among the activities in the Church of Satan. Anton LaVey is nothing like a horned Charles Manson, and his path is all the more unexpected. Nick Bougas allows us to discover the artist, the musician, the philosopher, all through hallucinatory images retrieved from archives, making this rare documentary only two years before the author of the Satanic Bible disappeared.
Production
Hallucinatory archival footage from LaVey's personal collection.
Score
LaVey's own organ compositions—campy and genuinely unsettling.
Writing
LaVey's self-aware mythologizing is accidentally hilarious.
Director
Nick Bougas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
LaVey's lion Togare was declawed and lived in his San Francisco house; neighbors complained about roars, not 'Satanic activity.'
Released during peak 'Satanic Panic' era, the documentary functioned as accidental counter-propaganda—showing mundane reality versus media hysteria. LaVey reportedly loved how boring he appeared.
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