Psychic TV: First Transmission

Jan 1, 1982

4h 0m

★ 4.4

Overview

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First advertised in the back pages of Thee Grey Book , The First Transmission was an ultra weird touchstone of the underground VHS tape trading scene of the 1980s.

Genres

Documentary

Horror

Production Companies

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

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Cast

David Tibet

Genesis P-Orridge

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Peter Christopherson

Self (archive footage)

Jim Jones

Brion Gysin

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

4.5

Lilith's Hell

Jul 1, 2015

A pair of filmmakers work with Ruggero Deodato, to pull off a horror film based on realism. The producers' family house, where the film is to be shot turns out to have it's own secrets. Secret chambers and ritualistic ceremonies invoking the spirit of Lillith. She who was cursed by God for not obeying Adam in the Garden of Eden.

6.5

Cut Piece

Jan 1, 1965

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing in a denouement of the reciprocity between victim and assailant.

7.3

The Wicker Man

Dec 6, 1973

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

6.2

Sauna

Oct 17, 2008

It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.

5.4

To the Devil a Daughter

Mar 4, 1976

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

4.8

Night of the Demon

Feb 4, 1980

An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.

5.8

Hostel: Part II

Jun 7, 2007

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.

7.0

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Aug 12, 2004

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

6.6

Meat Joy

May 29, 1964

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream, in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the 'sacred erotic.' This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of Meat Joy at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City."

5.5

Shake, Rattle & Roll II

Dec 25, 1990

Three terrifying tales follow a young groom in Baguio for his honeymoon is possessed by a homicidal spirit when he discovers a cursed ring and decides to wear it; in the eerie halls of a mysterious hospital, a doctor practices voodoo and dead bodies wander in the night; and a student who learns, while a guest at a town fiesta in a remote province, that the locals' hospitable ways leave her clueless about a mysterious nightly ritual.

0.0

Feminine Singular

Nov 7, 2023

A documentary featuring 30 Argentinian women aged between 4 and 80, sharing their stories of resilience, strength, and unique perspectives on womanhood through performance art.

6.7

Altered States

Dec 25, 1980

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

4.8

Julia

Jan 3, 2015

After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.

5.1

Hauntology

Jun 29, 2024

An older sister takes her fearless runaway sibling on a road trip, to share the most chilling tales surrounding their hometown.

6.0

Satan's Blood

Aug 12, 1978

After a chance encounter with a mysterious couple claiming to be old friends, Andrés and Ana are invited to spend the evening at a beautiful, secluded old villa. As the night winds down, they begin to sense that there are some rather strange things going on around them and, after agreeing to sleep over, find themselves unwittingly pulled into a series of bizarre sexual encounters which they slowly discover are part of a horrifying Satanic ritual designed to make them slaves to the Prince of Darkness!

4.8

Demon Witch Child

Mar 3, 1975

After an old witch desecrates a church and abducts a baby, the police take her in for questioning, leading her to attempt suicide. To exact revenge, a fellow witch curses the police commissioner's daughter, and as the old witch dies, her spirit latches onto the young girl and causes her to wreak havoc.

6.3

Temurun

May 30, 2024

After their mother dies during a violent break-in, two siblings move in with their estranged father discover their family's sinister heritage.

0.0

Mi arma

Nov 10, 2019

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

4.5

Children of the Corn

Jun 10, 2009

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

Psychic TV: First Transmission

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