Henry Zebrowski

But even though horror was a fucking flop, LaVey also consulted on a movie called The Mephisto Waltz about a dying Satanist piano player who transfers his soul into the body of a younger man.

That younger man was played by Alan Alda, you know, for M.A.S.H.

I haven't seen Mephisto.

The poster for Mephisto Waltz is fucking awesome.

It's very cool.

It's got a girl on the floor and she's drawing a pentagram.

It's very cool.

I hear the set is really cool, but overall, they say Alan Alda's the worst part of the movie.

They say he flubs it.

Well, I'm a massive B-movie guy.

Oh, of course.

So whenever someone says, like, the set is incredible, I'm like, watch that.

And this one got better reviews, but the praise was mostly focused on the occult imagery, the set, you know, all the various, you know, things in the background.

That, of course, was all LeVay's doing.

Critics, however, were less kind about the car, which involved a possessed Lincoln Continental that runs people over for no good reason and was parodied many years later in an episode of Futurama called The Honkings.

It had everything to do with Christine.

Well, I think it was somewhere around the same time as Christine.

But while LeVay bragged that the car was filled with occult symbolism, the film's writers denied all that, saying that they had simply written a quick ripoff of Jaws using a car instead of a shark and a few vague occult elements.

That's Duel.

No, no, no.