{"id":581,"date":"2015-10-27T04:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=581"},"modified":"2015-10-27T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:22:10","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-school-of-the-holy-beast-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;School of the Holy Beast&#8221; (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Could this be where artist <em>Andres Serrano<\/em> (lambasted by members of the US Senate) got the idea for \u201c<em>Piss Christ<\/em>,\u201d his notorious 1989 sculpture of a crucifix submerged in urine &amp; cow\u2019s blood? When a pregnant nun fesses up who the daddy is she\u2019s beaten &amp; force-fed a bucket of salt water so that if she urinates over an image of Christ it means she\u2019s a witch! Not only does a torrential flood of pee coat the icon but drooling droplets of slo-mo crimson from internal bleeding poetically splash &amp; mingle in what has to be one of the most sacrilegious images in cinematic history! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2005 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201c<em>\u2018Piss Christ\u2019<\/em> Precursor!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/school_of_the_holy_beast.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-582 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/school_of_the_holy_beast-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"school_of_the_holy_beast\" width=\"627\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/school_of_the_holy_beast-671x1024.jpg 671w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/school_of_the_holy_beast-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/school_of_the_holy_beast.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Could this be where artist Andres Serrano (lambasted by members of the US Senate) got the idea for \u201cPiss Christ,\u201d his notorious 1989 sculpture of a crucifix submerged in urine &amp; cow\u2019s blood? When a pregnant nun fesses up who the daddy is she\u2019s beaten &amp; force-fed a bucket of salt water so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}