Scorpio Rising shocked audiences by eroticizing fascist imagery

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With its mock-heroic vision of urban youth culture, knowing homoeroticism, copious media quotations, and blasphemous juxtaposition of Hitler and Christ, Scorpio Rising was an instant sensation. Mekas immediately recognized it as another “poisonously sensuous” analogue to Baudelaire and, having lived under German occupation during World War II, perhaps more: “Evil attracts. Scorpios attract. The pull of fascist strength, muscle and steel and speed.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 476