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This is likewise the thrust of Salò, based on the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom, an orgiastic, disturbing carnival of torture, rape, and killing, reset by Pasolini in the town from which fascism reigned in the 1940s.
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Inspired by his studies of witchcraft and medieval witch hunts, Danish director Benjamin Christensen made this unclassifiable film that moves freely between straightforward accounts of witchcraft and alternately eerie and hilarious depictions of orgiastic Satan worship and other sinister deeds.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Instead of the orgiastic madhouse that fans of Monster and American Horror Story have grown accustomed to, Devil in Disguise is a somber affair, as aesthetically chilly as a December in Des Plaines, Illinois.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
With his skin ripped, sucked, and absorbed in countless different directions by the cannibalistic and orgiastic elite, Bill’s friend and eventual shunting victim David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) embodies a literal argument against gerrymandering.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Inspired by his studies of witchcraft and medieval witch hunts, Danish director Benjamin Christensen made this unclassifiable film that moves freely between straightforward accounts of witchcraft and alternately eerie and hilarious depictions of orgiastic Satan worship and other sinister deeds.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Instead of the orgiastic madhouse that fans of Monster and American Horror Story have grown accustomed to, Devil in Disguise is a somber affair, as aesthetically chilly as a December in Des Plaines, Illinois.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
With his skin ripped, sucked, and absorbed in countless different directions by the cannibalistic and orgiastic elite, Bill’s friend and eventual shunting victim David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) embodies a literal argument against gerrymandering.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 July 2025
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“Orgiastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orgiastic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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