Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey

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Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton Lavey
Directed byNick Bougas
Produced byNick Bougas
StarringAnton LaVey
Music byAnton LaVey
Distributed byWavelength Video
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey is a documentary film about Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, released in 1993 through Wavelength Video and directed by Nick Bougas.[1][2][3][4]

It contains footage of LaVey including interviews and performances, a tour of his San Francisco home, known as "The Black House", and a look into his ritual chamber, music room, library, and the personal retreat he called the "Den of Iniquity".[citation needed]

The director, Nick Bougas, is also a cartoonist whose work has been described as racist, antisemitic and homophobic.[5][6][7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Boulware, Jack (November 19, 1997). "Slap Shots". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
  2. ^ "Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey". Rotten Tomatoes.
  3. ^ Barton, Blanche (1990). The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey. Feral House. p. 253. ISBN 9781627310079.
  4. ^ Lewis, James R. (2001). Satanism Today. ABC-CLIO. p. 147. ISBN 9781576072929.
  5. ^ Ellis, Emma Grey (June 19, 2017). "The Alt-Right Found Its Favorite Cartoonist—and Almost Ruined His Life". Wired. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2019. But internet anti-Semites (or at least people fishing for a reaction) started splicing Garrison's work together with the work of Nick Bougas, aka A. Wyatt Man, a director and illustrator responsible for one of the web's most enduring anti-Semitic images.
  6. ^ Bernstein, Joseph (February 5, 2015). "The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2018. So. You could stop right there and say that Nick Bougas is the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and not be wrong.
  7. ^ Malice, Michael (May 19, 2019). The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-250-15467-5. Under the pen name of 'A. Wyatt Mann,' artist Nick Bougas has drawn many explicitly racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic cartoons where there isn't even a pretense of humor.

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