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Club Satan: The Witches Sabbath

2007 American film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ136687059 ↗
Source-derived summary

Club Satan: The Witches Sabbath (also known as The Devil in Miss Gables) is a 2007 American pornographic horror film written and directed by Shane Bugbee, co-written by Amy Bugbee, and produced and distributed by Extreme Associates. The film was endorsed by the Church of Satan, contains an actual Black Mass, and was touted by its creators as being "the first Satanic porno film." It stars Paris Gables as Lilly, a churchgoing Catholic ingénue whose increasingly sexual thoughts lead to her embracing Satanism. An unproduced sequel, titled Club Satan: Bleed, Angels, Bleed, was announced by Shane Bugbee in March 2007.

Plot

Lilly, a virginal Catholic schoolgirl, visits a playground and then a church for Confession. It has been sixty-nine days since Lilly's last Confession, and she admits to being troubled by thoughts of rough sex with men and women, as well as incest with her parents and younger brother, and fears that these fantasies will condemn her to Hell. During Confession, Lilly suffers a breakdown, during which she alternates between tearfully chastising and harming herself and spewing blasphemy while masturbating with a Jesus figurine and a Bible. The priest sends Lilly to see a pair of nuns, who denigrate Lilly while abusing her physically and sexually, including with a crucifix and Prayer beads. Lilly, as she is being assaulted, fantasizes about having sex with the nuns, and about the nuns using the Jesus figurine to splash her with their urine in a mockery of Baptism.

Lilly is deemed hopeless and kicked out of the church by the nuns and begins sobbing in an alleyway when she is approached by a man named Simon Iff. Iff comforts Lilly, reassures her that her desires are natural, and encourages her to give in to them, which Lilly does by performing oral sex on Iff.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Club Satan: The Witches Sabbath” as 2007 American film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Club, Satan and Witches can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2007 American film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136687059. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Club Satan: The Witches Sabbath” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.