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''Angel, Angel, Down We Go'', re-released as ''Cult of the Damned'', is a 1969 psychedelic film written and directed by Robert Thom.

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''Angel, Angel, Down We Go'', re-released as ''Cult of the Damned'', is a 1969 psychedelic film written and directed by Robert Thom.
Thom, who also wrote ''Film/WildInTheStreets'' and ''Film/DeathRace2000'' among other things.
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* HorrorHippies: The re-release title was pointedly chosen in the wake of the Manson murders.
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Tara Nicole Steele (Holly Near), the troubled, overweight eighteen-year-old daughter of airplane magnate Willy (Charles Aidman) and his vain wife Astrid (Creator/JenniferJones), leaves her debut ball with kinky rock star Bogart Peter Stuyvesant (Jordan Christopher). Bogie introduces her to his new band, which has yet to choose a name, consisting of Joe (Lou Rawls), Santoro (Creator/RoddyMcDowall), and Anna Livia (Davey Davison), who is seven months pregnant. When Tara introduces the band to her family, things go downhill.

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Tara Nicole Steele (Holly Near), the troubled, overweight eighteen-year-old daughter of airplane magnate Willy (Charles Aidman) and his vain wife Astrid (Creator/JenniferJones), leaves her debut coming out ball with kinky rock star Bogart Peter Stuyvesant (Jordan Christopher). Bogie introduces her to his new band, which has yet to choose a name, consisting of Joe (Lou Rawls), Santoro (Creator/RoddyMcDowall), and Anna Livia (Davey Davison), who is seven months pregnant. When Tara introduces the band to her family, things go downhill.



* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Tara descends a staircase in her debut.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: In her debut, Tara wolfs down a table full of eclairs when confronted by Bogie and her own sexual frustrations.

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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Tara descends a staircase in during her debut.
coming out.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: In her debut, coming out, Tara wolfs down a table full of eclairs when confronted by Bogie and her own sexual frustrations.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Astrid thinks Tara is ugly and unlovable, but Bogie thinks her weight makes her sexy. At one point he sings "The Fat Song," about how great fat girls are.
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* LookBothWays: Tara flees her coming out party at night and runs onto the dirt road where Bogie is driving. Surprisingly, he doesnt' hit her - instead, she runs into the side of the moving car and falls over.
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* KeepAway: Bogie grabs a very expensive necklace from Astrid and tosses it back and forth with the band members, saying he'll give it back only if she goes skydiving with them.

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Tara Nicole Steele (Holly Near), the troubled, overweight eighteen-year-old daughter of airplane magnate Willy (Charles Aidman) and his vain wife Astrid (Creator/JenniferJones), flees her debut ball with kinky rock star Bogart Peter Stuyvesant (Jordan Christopher). Bogie introduces her to his new band, which has yet to choose a name, consisting of Joe (Lou Rawls), Santoro (Creator/RoddyMcDowall), and Anna Livia (Davey Davison), who is seven months pregnant. When Tara introduces the band to her family, things go downhill.

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Tara Nicole Steele (Holly Near), the troubled, overweight eighteen-year-old daughter of airplane magnate Willy (Charles Aidman) and his vain wife Astrid (Creator/JenniferJones), flees leaves her debut ball with kinky rock star Bogart Peter Stuyvesant (Jordan Christopher). Bogie introduces her to his new band, which has yet to choose a name, consisting of Joe (Lou Rawls), Santoro (Creator/RoddyMcDowall), and Anna Livia (Davey Davison), who is seven months pregnant. When Tara introduces the band to her family, things go downhill.


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* FemaleGaze: Tara stares at Bogie as he sings onstage, resulting in a close-up of his crotch.


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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Bogie was named, unsurprisingly, after Creator/HumphreyBogart.
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: A rare female example. Tara is dismayed that she's a virgin at eighteen, thinking that she's so fat no one will ever want her. Of course, Bogie doesn't leave her in that state for long.


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* ThrillSeeker: Bogie uses unknown, underage Tara as his pilot when he goes skydiving with his band because that adds to the thrill of risk.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Tara's parents look down on each other and are constantly fighting because Willy is a homosexual and Astrid starred in stag films.

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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Tara descends a staircase at her debut.

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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Tara descends a staircase at in her debut.debut.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: In her debut, Tara wolfs down a table full of eclairs when confronted by Bogie and her own sexual frustrations.
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''Angel, Angel, Down We Go'', re-released as ''Cult of the Damned'', is a 1969 psychedelic film written and directed by Robert Thom.

Tara Nicole Steele (Holly Near), the troubled, overweight eighteen-year-old daughter of airplane magnate Willy (Charles Aidman) and his vain wife Astrid (Creator/JenniferJones), flees her debut ball with kinky rock star Bogart Peter Stuyvesant (Jordan Christopher). Bogie introduces her to his new band, which has yet to choose a name, consisting of Joe (Lou Rawls), Santoro (Creator/RoddyMcDowall), and Anna Livia (Davey Davison), who is seven months pregnant. When Tara introduces the band to her family, things go downhill.
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!!''Angel, Angel, Down We Go'' contains examples of:
* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Tara descends a staircase at her debut.
* AMinorKidroduction: The beginning shows Tara as a young child, being yelled at and ignored by her constantly fighting parents.
* ShowerOfLove: The movie opens with a flashback to Tara as a young child walking in on her father in the shower with another man.
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