"Theres just enough religions in this world to make people hate one another, but not love."

This is a phenomenal movie. I might even say tied for my favorite neo noir. A twist ending I will never forget.

I don't think Lisa Bonet would sacrifice her entire career for just any movie. I think she was trying to tell people this is reality for the rich and powerful- like Bill Cosby (who fired her from his show for making this…

In the book The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage - which is the foundational technical manual that has profoundly influenced the methodology and spiritual orientation of modern Western occultism and various esoteric orders - it lists Paimon as one of the eight subprinces. The four princes above the eight subprinces are: Lucifer, Leviatan, Satan, and Belial. Belzebud (or Baal) is another one of the eight subprinces - Baal has been coming up in the news a…

This movie understands loneliness a lot better than most.

Whenever you've been alone for so long, you start to long for human touch. Some of you may have read about the scientific study at Yale that suggests that people who take frequent, long, warm showers or baths tend to be lonelier than folks who spend less time bathing and like cooler water. The scientists speculate that physical warmth, such as a shower or bath, is a form of self-therapy to…

Right before Laura's fate, her mother sees a white horse appear to her.

Some people interested in Jungian theory see the horse as an archetype of the Mother - some see a symbol for releasing powerful suppressed emotions- and in this movie the horse appears to the mother.

The white horse also has religious and mythological links to a sun chariot/solar deity, as well as an end-of-time savior... Laura is the one.

Because of those links, the white horse has…