Project Detail

Chemical Wedding

Synopsis

Edwardian Magician Aleister Crowley, dubbed the 'Wickedest Man in the World', shocked the establishment with his exploration of sexual magic, experiments with hallucinogenic drugs and his bizarre occult ceremonies.

Although he gloried in the notoriety, calling himself 'The Beast', Crowley was a sensitive poet, a world champion mountaineer, a skilled chess player and an expert in occultism. Astonishingly, he was an enthusiast of the new science of quantum physics.

So when a secret experiment goes awry leaving occult obsessive lecturer Professor Haddo, believing he is resurrected as Crowley, his masonic counterparts at Cambridge try and put a stop to his progressively wild indulgencies in drugs, sexual magic and obscene rites. But when Crowley's magic comes into conflict with quantum physics the outcome is extraordinary, with one of the most amazing triple twist endings in movie history.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 107 mins
Director: Julian Doyle
Producer: David Pupkewitz, Raimund Berens, Karl Richards, Rod Smallwood, Bill Jones, Paul Astrom Andrews, Peter Bevan, Peter Dale, Andy Taylor
Co-Producer: David Pupkewitz, Raimund Berens, Karl Richards, Rod Smallwood, Bill Jones, Paul Astrom Andrews, Peter Bevan, Peter Dale, Andy Taylor
Editor: Bill Jones
Screenwriter: Bruce Dickinson, Julian Doyle
Director of Photography: Brian Herlihy
Production Designer: Mark Tanner
Composer: André Jacquemin
Principal cast: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton, John Shrapnel

Genre

Horror Climate / Environment Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi Science

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Focus Films

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UK

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Sales Company

Cinema Management Group

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Set in the summer of 2000, 14 year old Lucian explores his sexuality through fantasy in a pre-internet world. Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

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