The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Curse of the Crimson Altar
When
Wed 14 May 2025
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Sewell’s penultimate film marshals a remarkable confluence of eclectic talents, as Steele’s 300-year-old Black Witch of Greymarsh oversees S&M orgies in greenface while battling Boris Karloff’s occult expert in Christopher Lee’s isolated manor house.
Three icons of mid-century horror have a blast amidst the psychedelic stylings of cinematographer John Coquillon (who also shot Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid) and the Swinging ’60s score by Peter Knight (renowned for his lush orchestrations for Scott Walker and The Moody Blues’ Nights in White Satin). Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s story “The Dreams in the Witch House”.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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