SATAN’S MENAGERIE
dir. Gary Griffith, 2001
USA. 101 min.
In English with English subtitles.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 – MIDNIGHT
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 – 10 PM
MONDAY, AUGUST 24 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 – MIDNIGHT
See – Vampires! Demons! Ghouls! And Satan Himself!
The monsters of the world gather at a one-of-a-kind gathering. Who will attend and what kind of carnage will break out?
Dr. Craymoor (co-writer Thomas V. Powers, doing his best hammy public-access-Vincent Price) is a paranormal talk show host who dabbles in the dark arts in pursuit of fame and riches. We’ll refrain from spoiling the (surprisingly convoluted) plot, but it involves, among other things, a Vietnam vet turned werewolf, a half-man half-amphibian who escapes from a carnival sideshow, and the disciples of a centuries old blood cult called the ‘Sons of Jeramin’.
Not released until the early 2000s and shot in the mid-90s on whatever money one-shot filmmaker Gary Griffith could scrape together (including cash from selling his own comic book collection), SATAN’S MENAGERIE approximates the feeling of channel surfing through B-movies late at night while in the grip of a severe fever.