Devil's Carnival Episode Two Preview Released

What is the one thing I love most? Independent music. What do I love second most? Cult movies. Thankfully every once in a blue moon a perfect combination of the two comes to be -- most recently at the hands of Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich. First Repo: The Genetic Opera, then The Devil's Carnival, and coming soon, The Devil's Carnival: Episode Two.


Warning: Graphic Content

So this franchise isn't gone after all. There had been rumors about a second installment being in the works (mostly due to star of the first film Emilie Autumn being unable to control her excitement about the project), but we finally have something solid to go by -- even if it's not much. The "preview" goes on for just over nine minutes, and surprisingly offers up very little about the plot.

What we do learn is that this movie will provide a much clearer picture of Heaven, far beyond the couple of shots of Paul Sorvino (anyone else in love with the fact that he is GOD?). This video shows us a scene with a character known as "The Librarian" with his extreme no talking rule. He takes it pretty far, even ripping out the tongue of a boy who couldn't keep himself from singing. There also appears to be a layer of social commentary with the act of burning or censoring books by heavenly officials, but we won't go into that.

What the point here seems to be is to make people see that Heaven can be a far more detestable place than hell. Sure, in the first movie they did some pretty crazy things to the victims that fell into their traps, but it was all played out as a test to see if they were really meant for damnation. Here, we just have a bunch of strict rules placed on our characters, to which the officials are rewarded with their angel wings for carrying out these violent acts. Yeah. This stuff is messed up.

There has been no official word on the casting as of yet, but doesn't that guy playing the Librarian look familiar? He's Tech N9ne, a famous rap artist (Missouri represent!). I would imagine given the setting that Paul Sorvino will be back, and I'm sure that both Ms. Autumn and (for eye candy's sake) Marc Senter will make a return as well.

The first movie is streaming on Netflix, and is available for purchase via the official Devil's Carnival website.