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Though Pollack says he was more a curios dabbler, later enhanced by drug use. “This kid was into some spooky shit, so it made perfect sense. He got too high on angel dust one night and decided to dig up a grave and take it to the Amityville Horror house. He didn’t succeed. The idea that bored drug addled kids in that part of Suffolk County would do something like that wasn’t too far off script, this weird pop culture thing that happened in our own backyard.”Kasso was arrested only two months before he murdered Gary Lauwers for attempted grave-robbing. “He told the cops, I was trying to go to the Amityville house to hold a ritual to summon Satan on Walpurgisnacht. It was common knowledge, not made up. When I found out that so much (of the story) has been made up, I assumed all that grave robbing shit about Amityville, was gonna be the next thing that’s not true but it turned out one of the few things that was.”When interviewed, the arresting officer told Pollack when searched he found a photo copied list of all the dignitaries in hell. He was trying to find a skull for a ritual. So, there is occult flavor to the story. Kasso was interested in Satan, but nothing close to a cult leader. The media saw dollar signs and didn’t take long for the myth to grow legs, once it became public knowledge.Ricky’s dad, Dick Kasso shares a large portion of the blame for Kasso’s actions due to his tough love approach, bordering on sadistic abuse and beatings. “I think the saddest part of the whole case was, it was all preventable, until he pulled a knife on Gary. He could’ve walked away, and let it go, even if he decided to give Gary another beating that night.”Kasso had beaten Gary several times prior, “Leading to the murder he’d beaten Gary several times over money and drugs he’d stolen from him. There was never a real point of no return, until he pulled the knife that night. “If he wasn’t in the woods, I doubt he’d of been consuming the amount of hard core drugs he was. A perfect storm that led to the murder but the catalyst was his father throwing him out.”Kasso and Lauwers had known each other since the 2nd grade, “Knowing your close friend had betrayed you,
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In Where Evil Dwells, every night is Halloween.On June 19, 1984, Long Island teenager Ricky Kasso went to the woods, smoked PCP, ate acid, and stabbed his friend Gary Lauwers in the eyes almost thirty times. During the murder, Kasso allegedly demanded Lauwers to “say you love Satan.” Since Kasso was a Judas Priest fan and admitted to dabbling in Satanism, he helped Satanic panic reach a fever pitch in American pop culture. Kasso’s story inspired everyone from Sonic Youth, who wrote the song “Satan Is Boring” for the album Bad Moon Rising, to paperback shyster David St. Clair, who wrote the distorted exposé Say You Love Satan.But none of those projects were as inspired as Where Evil Dwells.A ventriloquist dummy speaks to the camera and sets up the story, then attacks someone with a tiny knife. Ricky Kasso and friends dig up corpses in a graveyard and throw them at cars from a highway overpass. A rollercoaster ride is intercut with a reenactment of Gary Lauwers’ midnight murder. The mannequin gore looks like it oozed from the set of H.G. Lewis’s The Gore Gore Girls, but the relentless eye-stabs are still brutal. Someone pokes roadkill with a stick while a guy wearing a toga eats chicken. Eventually, the movie devolves into a reckless Satanic ritual featuring the whipping of a mummy, homoerotic heavy petting, and a sacrifice to Lucifer himself, who takes the shape of a cigar-chomping businessman in a three-piece suit. The end credits are pulled out of the mouth of a vintage Ben Cooper skull mask and lit on fire.Where Evil Dwells has no time for linear storytelling. The details of Ricky Kasso’s story are represented, but the focus is on creating a living, breathing nightmare on Super 8 film. Like Tom Hanson’s The Zodiac Killer, this is an interpretation of a true crime that was made while the events were still fresh. But Zodiac Killer is pure exploitation. Director Hanson had no ambitions aside from wanting to “catch the killer” and also catch a big pile of dough. Where Evil Dwells is the opposite — an unfinished, 30-minute juggernaut of experimental sludge-horror that could set the tone for a thousand haunted house dance parties hosted by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy from The Cramps.Filmmakers Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz were part of The Cinema of Transgression, a collective of underground filmmakers in New York City who made movies that felt like they originated on a planet where John Waters’ Mondo Trasho was more revered than Lawrence of Arabia. This is a planet that I’d like to visit permanently. Where Evil Dwells falls more on the “pop” side of the Transgression movement. It’s unsettling, but the experience of watching has more in common with Olaf Ittenbach’s Premutos than a Stan Brakhage short — it’s the equivalent of huffing nitrous in a lucid dream. The soundtrack warbles with pitch-shifted voices, metal songs (AC/DC’s “Hells Bells,” Wiseblood’s “Where Evil Dwells”) from a third-generation cassette dub, and tape-manipulated church sermons.
