"There's only one way to overcome temptation - by giving into it!" 

Acclaimed '70s avant-garde erotic filmmaker Peter de Rome and Hand in Hand Films bring a balanced measure of storyline, emotion, and raunchy sex to this classic gay horror/adult film hybrid, which is simultaneously artful, campy, and haunting.

Loosely based on an Edgar Allen Poe story, the film focuses on Caswell Campbell, a priest in training on sabbatical, torn between the call of the cloth and his pent-up lust. Religious repression leads to internal - and physical - fragmentation as Caswell repeatedly glimpses his sexually ravenous doppelganger and is drawn into a bizarre underworld of psychedelic supernatural sex, with rough and kinky action and surreal, stylized scenes abounding. Remastered in 2024 by Bijou Video for the best-looking version available since its initial release.

Programmed by Scott Potis in collaboration with Bijou Video.

THE DESTROYING ANGEL, director: Peter de Rome, studio: Hand in Hand Films, runtime: 62 minutes, year: 1976, current distributor: Bijou Video

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Tickets $12 available for purchase on Humantix https://events.humanitix.com/bijou-theater-at-la-and-m-the-destroying-angel-screening