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CHEMICAL WEDDING

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Simon Callow stars in Chemical Wedding

Sunday June 1,2008

By Henry Fitzherbert

IT takes real genius to make a movie as mad and bad as Chemical Wedding.

It's a bonkers sci-fi/thriller/black comedy about infamous Thirties occultist Alistair Crowley, co-written by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson.

Set in 2000 (during the contested US election), it features a wondrously over-the-top Simon Callow as a stuttering Cambridge don who is reincarnated as Crowley during some ludicrous experiment by a deranged boffin.

One minute he is waffling on in the lecture hall, the next he is urinating over his students.

I rarely had a clue what was going on and there is some hilariously bad dialogue and acting.

The picture is an absolute shambles but nevertheless achieves a kind of greatness.

OUR VERDICT: 2/5

Cert. 18, 107 minutes
Director: Julian Doyle
Stars: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton


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