SATAN PLACE
dir. Scott Aschbrenner & Alfred Ramirez, 1988
67 min, USA
SATURDAY, MARCH 2 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 15 – 10 PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 23 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, MARCH 29 – 7:30 PM
“Wow that was weird, that looked like Doris…nah, can’t be! She’s soup!”
In the Summer of 1988 while attending school for Film & Television production in our nation’s armpit (West Hollywood, FL) a group of friends decided to put their education to good use and make a feature film to appease our Dark Lord. Armed with equipment and studio space borrowed from the school, the crew set their sights on the booming video market and set out to make an anthology horror film. The result would be SATAN PLACE: A SOAP OPERA FROM HELL, a splattery send up of EC comics, MTV, domestic bliss, the perils of hitchhiking, and more. Three segments – DISPOSABLE LOVE, SAY GOODNIGHT SOPHIE, and TOO MUCH TV with a wraparound – SALLY SATAN – break up the film into tender vittles peppered with comedic flourishes and gore to thrill and tantalize.
With the project completed in 1989, the crew set out to distribute the film themselves via their own Thunderhill Entertainment label even producing a comic adaptation of the film inked by folks from Marvel’s stable of artists. By the early 90’s the film was being stocked in Blockbuster after a glowing review from Joe Bob Briggs in the Orlando Sentinel where he calls the film “a feminist horror anthology” and raves “Satan Place is yet another of those made-in-Florida let’s-go-get-a-camera-and-dress-up-our-girlfriends-in-lingerie-and-throw-blood-on-’em video classics, and actually this one is about the best I’ve seen. Once again, though, I’ve gotta ask. Why Florida? What the heck is going on down there? The state of hurricanes, serial killers and more cheesy horror flicks than you could find at a video store in downtown Detroit.”
After the rush was over, SATAN PLACE quickly became a rarity sitting comfortably beside such other Florida regional horror gems as ZAAT, NIGHTMARE IN A DAMAGED BRAIN, and BLOOD RAGE. Now, 30 years later Spectacle is proud to present a new, never before seen restoration straight from director Scott Aschbrenner with the film coming to DVD for the first time ever later this year! Hail Satan.