RED SPIRIT LAKE
dir. Charles Pinion, 1993
United States. 69 min.
In English.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 - MIDNIGHT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 - 10 PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 - MIDNIGHT

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt’s estate.

The sleazy crown jewel of this month’s Spectober is the SOV trashterpiece RED SPIRIT LAKE. Directed by Charles Pinion (Twisted Issues, We Await) and featuring a who’s-who grab bag of late 80s/early 90s underground NYC talent (including Spectacle favorite Tessa Hughes-Freeland in a blink and you’ll miss it cameo) Red Spirit Lake is the rare SOV flick that manages to transcend its scuzzy trappings into something more than the sum of its parts.
Not for the faint of heart (almost every content warning applies - no animals harmed though!) and borderline actively repellent, it's a fever dream of a movie that lands somewhere between a snuff film and Picnic at Hanging Rock, featuring aliens, angels, witches, nymphs, 80s workouts, nude galavanting in the snow, Victorian flashbacks and a killer soundtrack featuring Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin and The Lunachicks.

Special thanks to Saturn's Core Video