WATCH: Raincoaster's Klassy Manor Movie Night with "Lisa and The Devil!"

Welcome, movie hors! Tonight, at 9pm EST/6pm PST, is the night, as our delightful host, Raincoaster, explains: 

Come, child. Come into the manor. Enter without fear (for it will do you no good). Leave behind your inhibitions, worries and attachments to any given space/time continuum. Logic is not welcome here. You have entered the world of Mario Bava’s "Lisa and the Devil."

As Bree has eloquently noted, this film is beautifully photographed, enthusiastically acted, gorgeously decorated, brilliantly scored, and absolutely batshit insane. There’s no point – at any point – in asking me what’s going on, because I must have seen this film ten times (at least three of them sober) and I have no fucking clue. This a good thing, I promise!

One of the looniest things you notice right up-front is that the titular Lisa is American, but is played by the thickly-accented German baroness, Elke Sommer (who is now a painter in LA). You might remember her from the "Pink Panther" or "Carry On" films.

This film has two baronesses in it, the other being my favourite, Alida Valli, who had a great early career as a leading lady in several different languages, and later had something of a renaissance playing mysteriously menacing matrons, as she does here, and, more famously, in Dario Argento’s "Suspiria."

Anyhoodle, now that we’ve set the stage, shall we begin? We hit PLAY at 6pm LA time, 9pm Eastern/NY/Ottawa time - find your own time zone here - and we’re watching the official director’s cut on YouTube free with ads, because it’s far and away the best actual print of the movie available online (and I simply CANNOT with those two nerds at New Castle After Dark, even if they do know what they’re talking about).

READ CAREFULLY: this video is "age-restricted," so you may need to watch it in a separate browser window from this one. Dumb, I know. Like a wee ankle-biter would seek this out...? Moreover, there are two YouTube players below; one will play in your country, the other will not, so test them out before start time and choose the right one, silly!

ALSO READ CAREFULLY: You’ll need to be signed in to YouTube to watch, and you should be able to use your Gmail account. As long as you’re signed in to a Google product, you should be able to access the video. And if neither of them above work, there should be a “free with ads” version in your country that a search (while signed in) should turn up.

Failing that, watch the nerd version and just fast forward through their intro, or tune in ten minutes early and watch them. They DO know what they’re talking about. I just have a limited tolerance for the sleeve garters and cigars aesthetic.

Anyhor, now's the time to get yourself ready. Wheeeeeee! You know how it works: get the beverage/substance/plaything of your choice ready before we begin. Send the children away with the nanny. Dismiss the servants. Draw the curtains. 

But keep your phone handy, because us degenerates are going to be commenting up a storm here at the Manor as we watch those degenerates in their Manor. Please resist the urge to grope any of your fellow guests in the face (unless they're into that). Ready to click "play?" Enjoy!

Photo Credits: Shout! Factory; Getty Images