Product Details

• Actors: Anton LaVey, Diane LaVey, Shula Roan, Peter Balakoff, Bret Zeller
• Directors: Ray Laurent, Ray Dennis Steckler
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: X (Mature Audiences Only)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Run Time: 163 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000093NSP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,733 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Satanis the Devil's Mass / Sinthia the Devil's Doll" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HELL OF A GOOD TIME, April 26, 2005

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Adam - See all my reviews

This review is from: Satanis the Devil's Mass / Sinthia the Devil's Doll (DVD)

I picked this one up for SATANIS. I wasn't sure what to expect at first, but I'm happy to report that it's a blast! Anton LaVey certainly delivers. He's worth the price of the disc right there. And that's not all! There's also some nutty mormon guys, some nice late 1960's styled nudity that's later follwed by the spectacle of a saggy looking lady on the altar (this proved to me that Satanists truly accept folks as they really are. lol!), and interviews with LaVey's neighbors are a real hoot too! I'd love to see more of the Church of Satan. They certainly aren't stuffy or bland. SATANIS is the reason to pick this up and it's well worth a look by fans of fun forgotten cinematic gems.
This is great stuff!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ooooh, Scary!!, October 12, 2003

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Jonathan Schaper (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Satanis the Devil's Mass / Sinthia the Devil's Doll (DVD)

Satanis is a wonderful documentary about Anton LeVey and his Church of Satan. Every neighbour interviewed has either one of two extreme reactions: either he is evil incarnate and doomed to go to Hell, or else they think the Church is one of the funniest things they have ever encountered. For example, one woman laughs about how Anton keeps trying to talk her large-chested friend into coming in for one of their ceremonies because he wants to see her naked. Priests interviewed suggest that what he is doing is a silly passtime. Stories are also told about, e.g., having to put up with the noise his pet lion would make at night. The ceremonies themselves are a laugh riot.

Sinthia is nothing more than pop psychology nonsense. Some of the psychedelic imagery is fun, and there are some laugh out loud moments, but it can get dull at times. Suggested drinking game: one shot every time the lead female screams "Mommy!" or "Daddy!" (Actually, forget that. Nobody can drink that much and live).

The extras are great too. "My Tale is Hot" is funny (especially when the Lou Costello type complains to the devil "Hey, you interrupted the Walt Dibney show!!"). "Sex Ritual..." pretends to be a serious documentary, but is actually nothing more than an exploitation short with spooky, weird sets. Its high level of prententiousness is hillarious. The guys on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy will be surprised to learn when they watch this last short that they are unknowingly engaging in Satanic rituals.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars In praise of Leviathon's (Un)Holy moistness, September 17, 2007

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Frank Shanks "Shank Franks" (Buttwrench, ID) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Satanis the Devil's Mass / Sinthia the Devil's Doll (DVD)

Ha Ha Ha. Fooled you, because I'm DIABOLICAL!!!! I actually think this DVD should get 4 stars. The world is a little less interesting now that this Messiah of Modern Times has released his mortal coil. He was a true visionary. He realized (and helped others to realize) the hypocrisy and mind control of institutional religion and created a philosophical/aesthetic assault as an antidote to that influence. Institutional religiosity keeps the herds mindless so they can give up their personal wills to religions that keep them from facing reality or taking responsibility for themselves. Lavey intended to awaken a few courageous souls to step out of the Matrix by giving them some intellectual free space and confidence to start thinking for themselves. Most dolts are so blindly reactionary to concepts of good and evil that they're too blind to realize that the man wasn't "evil" or promoting a destructive view of the self and world. He isn't really a Satanist as he doesn't believe in God (nor evil or good). It's all a joke and a put on which the Christian automatons helped to promote and make famous by giving him all the publicity he needed, turning him from a neighborhood eccentric to an internationally known figurehead who hobnobbed with the rich and famous (William Shatner, we never knew ye.) How ironic. Christian churches perpetually need objects to fearmonger so they can continue to control their sheep and they find that in Satan. Fear of burning in hell is how they discourage an honest inquiry that would get people to realize the MYTH that Christianity is. Do your homework and see how Christian beliefs have profoundly changed over the millenia. (i.e. Doesn't anyone think it peculiar that all the new testaments were found in the Meditteranean and written in Greek, nothing in Aramaic, which was the supposed language of Jesus and his apostles? Why are Paul's words in the epistles considered equal to Jesus's when Paul never heard Jesus speak? Early Christians believed when you died you hibernated in the ground, hence certain burial customs to preserve the body, until the second coming and at which point they were resurrected and judged worthy of eternal physical life on this planet. If unworthy you would be consigned to oblivion NOT eternally burning in Hell. The Christian religion is plainly a myth that usurped elements from other myths/religions and revamped them for new generations/millenia.) That being said, this documentary gives you everything you'd ever need to know about the Church of Satan. Check the opening sequence when Sweet Anton enters his ritual chamber with hyper-pompous solemnity. It cracks me up everytime I see it. How could anybody think he was for real? The funny thing is I found more compassion and acceptance in the faces of the Satanic church members on this DVD than I found in the faces of people I knew when I went to a Christian church (before the Devil opened my eyes) or the "straights" interviewed in this documentary. Better a warm hearted sinner than a saint whose heart is hardened with piety. The only reason I didn't give this DVD 5 stars is because this is a dated documentary, reflecting more the attitudes and mores of the early 70s than wholly speaking to modern times, as today people are familiar with anarchy and are more narcissistic than they were back then. Or so it seems. If you got this far and looked for this DVD here, then you'll probably get a kick out of it. Diabolus Bless. : ) I mean : (