Sympathy for the devil. Or not.

It's quite telling that in the movie's credits (amended, I notice, on imdb), Aleister Crowley's name is misspelled as 'Crowleigh'. In response to other board topics, btw, the rock star who is shot in the film was more likely a fictionalised Jimmy Page, who was/is a disciple of Crowley's - though happily still with us. Why Mark Gilvary as Crowley is tarted up like a sub-par Mick Jagger in 'Performance' I don't know. And having spent time in one of Crowley's residences (in Cambridge) I can assure anyone who might be interested that there was nothing spooky about the place; in fact it was rather cozy, even if the floorboards creaked a bit. Most egregiously, the movie seems to think that Crowley would have fainted at the very thought that he had invoked Lucifer. As Crowley well knew that Lucifer is the Roman God of Light, whose misidentification with the Devil is, as Kenneth Anger has said, "a christian heresy", he would not have been deceived by any spirit claiming to be both "Lucifer and the Devil", and would have been enthralled if the Light God himself had manifested in his living room. Confused mysticism dogs this film, but as it's obviously something like a labour of love for Hadi Hajaig, it seems churlish to be less than generous about 'Puritan' overall - it obviously has given enormous pleasure to many viewers.