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The Occult Experience (1985)
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The Occult Experience (1985)

1985 · 95 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The international occult scene of 1984 and 1985 gets a tour through interviews and footage of practitioners rather than commentary from outside skeptics. Ceremonial magicians, spiritists, and diviners speak directly to camera about what they do and why, and the film moves between these groups without treating them as a single subculture with one set of beliefs. It first aired on Channel 10 in Sydney in 1985, and its approach favors direct access over narration: the people on screen explain their own rituals and worldviews in their own terms, from tarot and other divination practices to structured ceremonial rites. The film also tracks how mainstream society regards these practices, noting shifts in public perception rather than assuming occultism is static or fringe by definition. What emerges is less an expose than a survey, letting practitioners of quite different traditions sit side by side so the differences between them, and the common threads, become visible without an outside voice telling you what to conclude.