I want you to know something-Satan is a total loser, and he knows it.”
The Great Satan only runs around 75 minutes. But it moves at such a wildly frenzied pace that if you can actually sit through the whole film without taking a breather-or just getting up to get a beer-you are stronger than most. While Everything Is Terrible! is first and foremost about creating outsider video art through obscure found footage, it’s also about testing whether you, the viewer, can take it. So perhaps they’re the most sinister of all. If you were lucky enough to grab tickets for Tuesday’s live show at Lincoln Hall, definitely expect a cavalcade of demonic costumes and human sacrifices-as well as a screening of The Great Satan. v
Tue 2/20, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, 773-525-2501, lh-st.com, sold out, 18+.
