Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was
completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began
filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to
act and compose the soundtrack.
The film was abandoned in 1967 because
Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil.
(Beausoleil and others said that Anger had simply spent all the money
for the film). Anger then used some of the existing footage in another
short film, Invocation of My Demon Brother.
Beausoleil was convicted of
killing Gary Hinman under the orders of Charles Manson in 1970. Anger
began filming again several years later, with British singer Marianne
Faithfull appearing in the film. Jimmy Page was brought in to record the
soundtrack, but after he had a falling out with Anger, he was replaced
by Beausoleil, who wrote and recorded the music in prison.
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