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Zapped Movie with costar Heather Thomas- Sayville Connection - Father Devine

Hollywood Studio Steals Idea from Sayville Author!

Zapped movie with Scott Baio

Note the Purple-Gold Colors and Lightening Bolt in the Movie Poster.

A person involved with the character's development said, " 'The Pleasuring of Rory Malone,' was blatantly ripped off in the 1980s, by a Scott Baio movie, in which he possess psychic powers and can make girls skirts fly into the air, etc. It was transformed from (a) dark psychological thriller, into a light-weight high school comedy. In fact, the studio that produced the Baio movie passed on (the) novel about a year and a half earlier - very suspicious timing."

According to a Zapped expert, the studio was Embassy and the screenwriter/director. There was a proposal to the studio to make the Sayville author's manuscript into a movie. The studio turned it down, and then proceeded to make a movie with the similar concept. Like other shows in the Sayville-influenced genre, it is about kids in a suburban high school, the supernatural, purple and gold colors, and lightening bolts.

Zapped Movie

Teenager in "Zapped" uses "psychic powers" to have sex with girls.

The Zapped purple psychic power potion

<< The magic elixir that give the psychic powers is packaged in purple and gold. The juice is purple.

Note logo for "Zapped" sequel has a lightening bolt. >>

Zapped Again Sequel


The Pleasuring of Rory Malone by Charles Panati

The book written by the Sayville author was written before the movie was made. It says it is a novel of "Psychic Power" to touch women.

 

Compare the character in the movie, to the one in the book. Both got psychic powers that they used on women.

 

Sayville High School Flashes lightening bolt symbol

Sayville High School symbol. Compare to the movie logo and poster.

 


Sabrina the Teenage witch Gameboy

Sabrina is in purple and gold, and is sending our flashes through her finger, like in the "Zapped" movie. The Sabrina game is also called "Zapped."

A screenshot from a Sabrina the Teenage Witch Game Boy game called "Zapped." Like the character in "Zapped"  of the same name, energy in the form of lightening comes out of her finger.

There was an episode in Sabrina called "Magic Joel." It was a very similar story to Zapped and Rory Malone. It was about a kid that looked like the teenager in the other stories, and had magic powers where girls would be felt without anyone being with them.

The Harts, who started and owned the Sabrina show, lived near to the Sayville author. Melissa Joan Hart knew him throughout her childhood.


The Pleasuring of Rory Malone according to Qvamp:

Like all teenagers, Rory Malone thinks about sex. Unlike most of them, he can do something about it, for
Rory has the power...  he demolished his parents' home, spewing out psychic energy in a storm of rage. Now his mysterious power has turned to sexual desire. And what most men only think about, Rory can reach out
with his mind and do... Walking on the street alone, a woman feels hands though no one is touching her... She runs, though no one is near except for a strange, thoughtful boy watching from a doorway...Her body trembles with terror and unwanted ecstasy...she screams...Even Rory is afraid. The power is out of control, and no woman is safe...

Compare the above to the movie "Zapped."


Lightning Shoots Out of Body of Sayville Resident !

Makes World Headlines - Compare to Zapped Story!

Father Devine aka George Baker was a black cult leader that set up his headquarters in Sayville. The house was sold to him because the prior owner wanted to spite a neighbor that he did not get along with by having a black live next to him. The ad actually said for sale to "colored." He commanded his followers to worship him as God incarnate. Their first communal dwelling, which they called heaven, was in Sayville. All members had to turn over all possessions to him, and work for free.  There was lots of noise. "I phoned to Divine's place one night and I asked if the noise could be stopped," said a neighbor. "A voice I believed to be his replied, ‘Do you know whom you are talking to? This is God himself!"'

A Sayville resident that said he was God, and said he killed a judge with his supernatural powers.

The Curse on the Village: He put a curse on the village " Sayville sowed seeds of its own destruction."

Because of the weird goings on, many real estate agents wanted to run him out of town since his presence lowered the property values on Macon St. Worldwide there were 178 “Heavens” and Father Devine contributed to Sayville’s reputation for this sort of thing worldwide. People came from all over to worship him as god.  According to Newsday, ""I have information that this man is not a moral man, but immoral," Smith said. 'I believe that he is not a useful member of society, but rather a menace to society.' Divine would have the last laugh. Five days after the sentencing, the 55-year-old Judge Smith died of a heart attack. From his jail cell in Riverhead, Divine is reported to have said, 'I hated to do it.' " "Devine Intervention in Sayville" by George DeWan, Newsday.

He was arrested in 1931 for being a nuisance. Father Devine was convicted, and immediately afterwards the judge died. Papers all over the country said the judge was struck down by god for sentencing Devine to 1 year in jail. Eventually to the relief of the business community and real estate agents, Devine relocated to Harlem. His white woman mistress was called Mother Devine.

"FLASHES of LIGHTENING went out from his body."

USE OF LIGHTNING: According to the FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE'S International Peace Mission Movement, "Witnesses say that just then FATHER clutched HIS Heart and in the power of HIS Spirit flashes of  lightning went out from HIS Body, and as it did so, the D. A. staggered from the middle of the courtroom to the stairway outside, falling down the stairs paralyzed." In addition, his followers claimed he set a hotel on fire, and killed his critic Mrs. Annie Hallick, all with his supernatural powers.

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