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It was only a matter of time before someone went and made a film about hippies who put on a pop festival only to have their minds consumed by Cthulu. Enter The Miskatonic Acid Test. Described by its creator, Dark Lord Rob, as "sort of like Monterey Pop, only at the end monsters attack everybody," the film concerns the time in 1969 when

a group of students at Miskatonic University in witch-haunted Arkham, Massachusetts decided to emulate the West Coast and put on their own sort of "happening", where "music and atmosphere could combine to create an alteration of consciousness", with the clandestine help of a little LSD. Or maybe a lot. Unfortunately, the professor they chose to serve as faculty adviser on the project had an agenda of his own; see, he was a philosophy professor, one who specialized in the "study of Evil", and one who saw the Miskatonic Acid Test as an opportunity for a little experiment. As the music and drugs reached their peak he ascended the stage and began to read incantations from the dread Necronomicon...

with sexy results!

The filmmakers have even gone so far as to put together fictional bands to play the festival, including folkies The Gyre Falcons, the proto-punk Barrow Wights, and "the heavy, spooky hard psych of the" Plasma Miasma. Personally, I would have hoped they'd have included a performance by The Golden Apples or The American Medical Association, but then we'd have undead Nazis rising from deep lakes to take over the world and that kind of throws us into another mythology altogether

Maybe it's because I live in witch-haunted Salem, Massachusetts, but I really want to see this movie. Maybe we could have a Perfidy Horror Festival Night Thingy come this Rocktober at which we show "Evil Dead II," "Bubba Ho-Tep," and "Shaun of the Dead" and top it all off with "The Miskatonic Acid Test." And then we all go insane.