You want this one, directed by and starring one Craig Denney. That’s not The Astrologer we’re talking about here. Various sources cite The Astrologer as having been released in 1975 or 1976, but things are immediately complicated by the presence of a second 1975 film that also happened to be titled The Astrologer, although its alternate title is Suicide Cult.
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You’ll most likely notice, attempting to look up The Astrologer online, that there’s some confusion as to what movie you should even be looking for. So without further ado, allow me to make the barest attempt to explain what exactly it is you’ve been missing out on in The Astrologer. The Astrologer is the rarest of all the forgotten, would-be cult classics a film you can only see if your local, independent theater goes out of their way to host the one existing digital print of a movie that almost no one knows anything about. It’s one of the strangest, most inexplicable films I’ve ever seen, but the really unique thing is this: It’s a film I may never get a chance to see for a second time-and in all likelihood, neither will you. This film, like some kind of holy grail of directorial vanity project mythologizing, dropped miraculously into my lap during a one-time April screening at Atlanta’s Plaza Theatre, and my mind has revolved around it ever since. Friends are consistently unnerved by the sheer scope of my bad movie collection.Īnd yet, I had never even heard whisper of 1975’s The Astrologer until this past spring. I’ve hosted regularly scheduled bad movie nights in my home for more than eight years at this point.
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I’ve written not one but two different bad movie columns for Paste. I’ve seen films like The Room and Birdemic dozens of times in the last decade. I’ve ranked every single episode of MST3K. I live for cheap, WTF-laden bizarro cinema. On second thought, “obsessed” might be the more accurate word.
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If you really want to see The Astrologer, it’s now possible to see this truly jaw-dropping directorial vanity project. This genie is finally out of the bottle, and there’s not going to be any putting it back in. The movie recently resurfaced online, uploaded to YouTube of all places, and has since hit all the major pirating/torrent sites, meaning that it will never be unavailable again. EDIT: In the almost three years since writing this article, The Astrologer has remained a lost film, but that time is now over.