#alleluia! the devil's carnival

[thegeneticopera]

Bill Moseley's behind the scenes cast photos from Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival

[doyouknowthismusical]

[showyoumyfavoriteobsession]

TJ MIKELOGAN'S HALLOWEEN 2023 EVENT Day 17: A spooky musical

The Devil's Carnival (2012, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman) & Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2016, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman) ↦ Spotify Template by @seaoftr

[emberandshadow]

Ember's Annual Devil's Carnival Halloween Rewatch: After the Fall

A Gentleman prefers to dig in with his fingers, Suck in through his teeth, And bare a hungry grin! Let us piss from the vine Let us claw in the mud Let us swing with both fists As we writhe in the blood Let us walk on stained glass Sinners one! Sinners all! It's always prettiest after the Fall

[a-bit-of-a-mindflip]

June/Painted Doll aesthetic 🎡

[shyce-overgod]

Had the most fascinating dream. It was an alternate version of Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival that had never been released. But only four scenes of the movie.

The first one had seemingly nothing to do with it?

It was a girl rehearsing for some school presentation. The rest of her family was in the room with her, as an audience. Through some dialogue we learn that the girl is trans and her presentation is about acceptance and stuff. Her family is supportive, if a bit sick of watching the rehearsal for the 100th time.

Then, actually focusing on heaven, The Agent had adopted one of the souls Lucifer has been sending back to heaven. He's just some guy, wearing tattered clothes and with a body full of stitches, as if he had been sewn together from multiple pieces. It's not entirely a Frankenstein situation, as it's established that when the train he was sent in crashed, he got torn to pieces; the working horses put him back together as well as they could, though it's implied that there may or may not have been pieces of someone else sewn there by accident.

Anyway, The Agent's adopted soul is super, super hungry, as if he hadn't eaten in forever, so The Agent is feeding him pieces of himself. Literally just nibbling and plucking pieces of flesh off his arms to feed this guy (who I guess I'll just call The Redeemed for simplicity?).

God grows worried about how The Agent seems to have been slow at work, and then jealous when He notices that The Agent is spending way too much time with The Redeemed, even when doing what holy tasks He commands, so He calls The Agent to His office.

When The Agent comes, he brings The Redeemed with him, and when he feeds The Redeemed in front of God, He grows outraged, and declares The Agent will be punished for, uh... Apparently putting too much of the love he should have for his master on The Redeemed, which He sees as an unwelcome abomination. It is unclear why God does not use The Translators on the stitched up guy.

The next scene could have been musical, I'm not sure.

The Agent is half naked in front of a grand bed, fearful looking from side to side as other half naked men and women wearing only white pants approach him, carrying with their arms raised above their heads, long golden tubes, opened at the top. They corner The Agent against the bed and tilt the tubes, and boiling oil pours down, burning him.

As The Agent lies on the bed, legs dangling over one side, recovering from the pain, God comes (but he looks like The Librarian for some reason?). God comes wearing what I can only call wine-colored lingerie: long gloves that reach his elbows, thigh high socks, a very short miniskirt, and something like a binder on his chest. He climbs onto the bed, then walks on His knees until He's positioned right above The Agent, them lowers himself in The Agent's face.

The Redeemed had been forced to watch everything and is terrified and confused. God calls him, tells him to get closer, that the punishment and His love are also for him. As The Redeemed is brought close by the head for a kiss, an alarm sounds, and The Publicist's voice sounds calling for attention through the speakers. The punishment is interrupted.

But I don't know what was the alarm about, because we go back to Earth.

The girl arrived at the open stage where she'll do her presentation. After placing a sign for reserving some of the seats for the rest of her family, she stands to one side with her younger brother and her grandfather. She's worried the rest of the family won't come after seeing the presentation so many times at home already, but she's also excited as, starting the next day, she'd stop wearing pants and start wearing skirts. Her brother is confused as to why she wouldn't want to wear pants, specially with the weather getting colder, but the grandfather interrupts to avoid the same sibling fight that had repeated every time he made that comment before.

... and that's it. Then I woke up. I admit curiosity as to wherever that movie could've gone.

[selffagellation]

Behind the scenes pics of Nivek Ogre in the Devil's Carnival movies! Taken from the Instagram of the prosthetics designer, Vincent Guastini (@/vgpeffects). All of his work is insanely impressive, you should definitely check him out

[uncannytimecandy]

In All My Dreams I Drown

except it's tragic and gay

[captaincolossal]

Anyway. I'm not optimistic about how I did at my event this weekend, but sales were run through a central checkout, so I don't have numbers to compare yet. But. It was a very nice event to do, as far as logistics and overall vibe. Lots of perks. I'm withholding final judgment until I have numbers, yes, but my gut says I did a Mistake. My gut also frequently tells me that everyone I know secretly hates me and that I am inherently unlovable and deserve to die alone, so who knows if my gut is right or not.

All that to say, that I am having a lot of feelings today, I hate it, and also can't decide what to watch because my feelings are in the way, but I want to watch something after being too exhausted the last few days, because that would be a nice distraction from all these goddamn feelings.

So the theme for this Double Feature Sunday is: double wildcard. Random rolls, and...*facepalm* okay, and also...oh, huh.

Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2015)

Oh, thanks for recapping the short film I didn't feel like watching.

[phantom-of-notre-dame]

As a person, I think I'd punch Terrance Zdunich in the face if I ever met him but DAMN does he make good movies

[pink-carnelian]

Making my way through the zdunich filmography. Currently watching alleluia slightly intoxicated. I don’t think it will alter the viewing experience whatsoever

[thegeneticopera]

Various sets from The Devil's Carnival and Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival

[phagethemage]

This has been stuck in my head since I watched the movie a few nights ago. Just, playing it on repeat so much.

[wackpedion]

yeah im going to draw raincode today (blinks) what the fuck

[emberandshadow]

Ember's Annual Devil's Carnival Halloween Rewatch: Shovel and Bone

Black lungs, black breath Hissed across the faces of dear departing souls Swallowing the guilt and ink Black coal, black freight Cutting with its teeth in ash and vein and skin Clawing through the sludge and stink

[a-bit-of-a-mindflip]

Kathleen Merrywood aesthetic 💎