THE REDEEMER: SON OF SATAN aka CLASS REUNION MASSACRE
dir. Constantine S. Gochis, 1978
United States. 84 min.
In English.

SATURDAY, 10/21 - 7:30PM
FRIDAY, 10/27 - 10PM

BOTH SCREENINGS WILL BE FROM AN ORIGINAL 16MM PRINT! $10 TICKETS!

If you have a craving for terror... come to the class reunion

Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during the 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.

What to say about a regional horror film that opens with a fully clothed child walking out of a lake and getting onto a shuttle bus to a church?

Shot entirely in Staunton, Virginia, THE REDEEMER follows a crazed preacher who orchestrates a fake high school reunion for six sinful classmates (why not seven? we'll never know), trapping them inside their abandoned old school and picking them off one by one in a series of elaborately staged (and variously costumed) kills - each victim very loosely, though sometimes not at all, connected with one of the seven (six?) deadly sins.

Easily one of the strangest proto-slashers to come out of the 70's, THE REDEEMER, intentionally or not, manages to capture a rare, disturbingly dreamlike feel from start to finish that never lets up as we follow the preacher's warped attempts at moral reasoning for each murder.