Parhaat Cruelty Podcastit (2024)

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GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) — I ain’t afraid of no IRB review 3:37:56

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The Cultists are back! And in honor of The Resurrection, on this week’s annotated deep-dive, The Cutlists Present Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters (1984). A humble little film of grandiose origins (including a writer born into a family tree of generations of ghost hunters, a un-producable fever dream of a first draft, a 13 month time budget, and a die h…

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Introducing..."The Missing Madonna" 1:40

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From a Scottish Castle to a Merseyside boozer, via the FBI’s most-wanted list, this is the incredible story of a missing masterpiece.Kirjoittanut BBC Radio Scotland

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9. The Wee Boy 30:51

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In Tayport Cemetery on the 51st anniversary of the discovery of the Unknown Bairn, Davie meets again with the Robertson family. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble White and Kirsty Williams Sound …

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8. The Mother 19:01

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After receiving a flurry of messages, Davie arrive at the doorstep of someone who might just hold the key to the whole investigation. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble White and Kirsty Williams …

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7. The Camp 25:26

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Tracking down the camp where the Unknown Bairn may have lived brings Davie even closer to the story and offers up a potential new lead. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble White and Kirsty William…

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6. The Boy on the Bike 25:55

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The case suddenly starts to speed up, as new information is forthcoming. However, these breakthroughs lead Davie to look again at information already received. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble …

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5. The Experiments 45:45

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Davie discovers the story of a little girl, possibly murdered in care, and is forced to question whether the Unknown Bairn could have met a similar fate. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble White …

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4. The Cruelty 35:15

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In trying to work out how a child could remain unclaimed, Davie is forced to consider his father’s childhood and how it could be connected to the case. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble White an…

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3. Lucky Scalp 25:38

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No one knew where The Unknown Bairn washed in from. Did he come from out of the sea, perhaps as far afield as the Netherlands or did he enter the water upstream in the River Tay. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consul…

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2. The Couple on the Bus 23:03

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Davie meets a former detective who worked on the case, but has since made claims in the press about the identity of the Unknown Bairn. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble White and Kirsty Williams…

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1. The Memorial 17:59

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Davie Donaldson begins his investigation into the case of the Unknown Bairn. At the memorial service he hears about a lead which has never been followed up. Presenter: Davie Donaldson Producer: Kate Bissell, BBC Scotland Productions. Researchers: Rachael Fulton and Catrina Rose Additional reporting: Cameron Mackay Story consultants: Jack Kibble Whi…

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Introducing The Cruelty – A Child Unclaimed 4:14

1+ y ago4:14

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There’ve been many theories, but the case remains unsolved. Davie explores a controversial 20th-century social experiment and confronts a shocking reality that hits close to home.Kirjoittanut BBC Radio Scotland

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5x5 Films: Movies with a Color in the Title 1:17:07

1+ y ago1:17:07

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On this week's five-by-five bonus interlude, London and Benji each present 5 recommendations for films with a color in the title.

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ROMEO+JULIET (1996) — I defy you, Dopamine!!! 2:55:08

2y ago2:55:08

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Baz Luhrmann’s 90s frenetic teen angst extravaganza, Romeo + Juliet (1996). Known for his kinetic color-fueled explosions of images and sound, Luhrmann's second offering in his “red curtain trilogy” put him on the film world’s map as an Auteur with a distinct and immediately recognizable styl…

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THE DREAMERS (2003) - Our Godard and Savior 2:49:22

2y ago2:49:22

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Bernardo Bertolucci’s 'The Dreamers' (2003). Known for his “hot house” cinema, in which characters are crammed into isolated intimate spaces until they burst, Bertolucci returns again to offer up a claustrophobic yet sprawling visual love letter to his own memories of the French New wave —alb…

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VANILLA SKY (2001) — Ice, Ice, maybe. 2:56:09

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Cameron Crowe’s “indie” millennial LowFi-SciFi flick ‘Vanilla Sky’ (2001). The self described American “pop song” remake of the 1997 Spanish film, Open Your Eyes, VS was and remains a film of lukewarm division. Part of that reception has to do with early expectations. Made on a budget of 68 m…

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MANIAC (1980) — What rigid collodion you have! 2:45:34

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Bill Lustig’s controversial killer classic 'Maniac' (1980). Initially pitched as "Jaws but on land," Maniac tells the tale of Frank Zito, our man-about-town who can’t help but prowl the streets at night, scalping the women who remind him of dear old dead mom and thumbtacking his permed late-n…

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URBAN LEGEND (1998)— The Ostension is Coming from Inside the House. 2:59:24

2+ y ago2:59:24

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On this week's annotated deep dive, The Cultists present 'Urban Legend' (1998). A classic tale of a disgruntled heartbroken serial killer who seeks vengeance by re-enacting even more classic tales of contemporary lore, UL is the kind of film that has a surprising amount of depth lurking beneath its colorful, campy surface. Taking inspiration from t…

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DUNE (1984) — if you wanna be my sand messiah, you gotta get with my Fremens. 2:58:09

2+ y ago2:58:09

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present David Lynch’s ‘Dune’ (1984). A byproduct of nearly two decades of active studio efforts to bring to the big screen, the 1984 highly anticipated “picture event” of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic was for some disappointing, for others baffling, and for a select special few the kind of slee…

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FRANKENSTEIN (1931) - My Gallbladder Belongs to Daddy 2:54:46

2+ y ago2:54:46

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On this week's annotated deep dive, The Cultists present the Universal Studios Hollywood Horror Classic, 'Frankenstein' (1931). Helmed by the great James Whale, this first installment of a legacy of undying gems tells the well-known tale of Dr. Victor (or in this case "Henry") Frankenstein and his "Creation" - a life composited from scrapped togeth…

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TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (1990) - Scripts before Crypts 2:36:50

2+ y ago2:36:50

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This week on our annotated deep dive, The Cultists Present 'Tales from the Darkside - The Movie' (1990). The year was 1983 when George Romero, inspired by the EC comics of the 1950s such as "The Vault" and "Tales from the Crypt", pitched a humble horror TV anthology that would harken back to the golden age of pulp fiction. Seven years, four seasons…

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KNIGHT OF CUPS (2015) - The Pilgrim’s Prozac 2:46:33

2+ y ago2:46:33

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Terrence Malick’s ‘Knight of Cups’ (2015). Often regarded as a particularly “tough watch” (even by those who enjoy the film), Cups is a slow and mangled feast of images that will delight some and utterly baffle others. Adding to the challenge is that grasping the more concrete structure of th…

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TWILIGHT (2008) - Some Like It Cold. 2:58:57

2+ y ago2:58:57

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On this week's annotated deep-dive, The Cultists present Catherine Hardwick's wondrously absurd adaptation of Twilight (2008). The tale of a self-loathing undead stalker who has been stuck repeating high school for one hundred years, and the clumsy death-welcoming teen of his dreams, Twilight is a wild trip. Known as the phenomenon that brought a r…

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MANDY (2018) - He ain't heavy, he's just METAL. 2:54:06

2+ y ago2:54:06

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On this week's annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Panos Cosmatos's 'Mandy' (2018). The anticipated (mostly unrelated) follow-up to Cosmatos's first cult film, Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Mandy hit the scene marketed as a heavy metal, genre-bending, "cosmic opera" of the psyche. Set in a 1983 (that may or may not be *our* 1983), Mandy is…

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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017) -- ain't no rest for the mustached. 2:42:53

2+ y ago2:42:53

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On this week's annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Kenneth Branagh's 'Murder on the Orient Express' (2017). The technically ambitious 65 mm adaptation of Agatha Christie's murder mystery classic, MoOE tells the tale of the magnificently mustachioed Hercule Poirot -- the world's greatest detective (also known as the man who thinks and thus suf…

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WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) —No one expects the Quaker Exposition 2:36:02

2+ y ago2:36:02

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On this week's annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Mel Stuart's 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' (1971). Considered a flop during its initial release, ‘Wonka’ has grown overtime into a beloved classic of psychedelic sadomasochism of the childhood nostalgia variety. Ostensibly the tale of a poor, starving child with nightly dreams of co…

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CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999)— My So-Called Aristocracy 2:43:20

2+ y ago2:43:20

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Roger Kumble’s iconic “teen” flick, 'Cruel Intentions' (1999). Based on the 18th century French novel, Dangerous Liaisons (1782), about a group of bored (and very adult) aristocratic power-players living in a morality-absent void of entitlement and sociopathic values, CI hit the late 1990s YA…

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5x5 Films: Dark Night(s) of the Soul 58:30

3y ago58:30

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On this week's Five-by-Five interlude, The Cultists present the top "Dark Night of the Soul" films, as London and Benji each offer up their respective Top 5 films that all take place over the course of a single night.

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KING KONG (1976)—It’s Always Darkest Before the Dwan 2:25:14

3y ago2:25:14

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present John Guillermin’s ‘King Kong’ (1976). A remake of the classic RKO production from 1933, Kong ‘76 retains many of the high adventure staples popular in the pulpy 30s: the treacherous island, the perilous climb, and the classic meet cute of blonde bimbo pawn meets giant monkey during a casual r…

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Five-by-Five: Our Croolest Episodes 1:04:56

3y ago1:04:56

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In addition to our regular episodes, we are adding a new format into the mix! "Five-by-Five" eps will each be a Top Five list of films featuring different random topics, sub-genres, or objects. As we are often asked what our personal favorite episodes are, first up on the Five-by-Five front are each of our respective "top" favorite films/episodes w…

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BLUE VELVET (1986)—Get behind me, Oedipus. 2:46:57

3y ago2:46:57

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For our one year anniversary episode, The Cultists present David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ (1986). The premise is simple enough: Jeffery (Kyle MacLachlan) returns home from college to his small 1950s-tinged nostalgia town, finds a severed, moldy ear in a field, and embarks upon a self-guided odyssey into the darker parts of the town’s worn-down crevice…

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EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) Part 2 —Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick 1:37:55

3y ago1:37:55

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****THIS IS PART 2 OF A TWO-PART EPISODE*** On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Stanley Kubrick’s final film 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999). An incredibly faithful adaptation of Arthur Schniztler’s 1926 Austrian novella, Traumnovelle (“Dream Story”), (albeit set in a contemporary 1990s New York), Eyes Wide Shut remains a timeless drea…

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EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) Part 1 —Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick 2:05:25

3y ago2:05:25

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Stanley Kubrick’s final film 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999). An incredibly faithful adaptation of Arthur Schniztler’s 1926 Austrian novella, Traumnovelle (“Dream Story”), (albeit set in a contemporary 1990s New York), Eyes Wide Shut remains a timeless dreamlike odyssey of paranoia, jealousy, (in)fid…

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PERSONAL SHOPPER (2016)—If the spirits move you. 2:32:06

3y ago2:32:06

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The peculiar tale of a young Spiritualist medium listlessly going about her day job as a personal shopper for a Parisian model/actress while awaiting a sign from her recently departed twin, ‘Personal Shopper’ is an incredibly ambitious meditation on what it means to be alive in a contemporary haunted world. A languid ghost story interwoven through …

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TRON (1982) — Fortran Favors The Bold 2:25:47

3y ago2:25:47

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Steven Lisberger’s cult classic ‘TRON’ (1982). The story of a “scruffy” programmer (Jeff Bridges), who gets sucked into the glowing gridlocked world of The Computer, where avatars who remain devoted to their “users” are forced by the evil “master control program” to fight for their lives in g…

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THE LURE (2015)—Hook, Line, and Sink Her 2:24:08

3y ago2:24:08

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Agnieszka Smoczynska’s ‘The Lure’ (2015) (Córki Dancingu). In an alternative 1980s outside of Warsaw, Poland, two mermaids, “Silver” and “Golden,” wash up onto the shore. Soon taking up temporary refuge in a night club cabaret, the two sea-bound sisters do what any classic fairytale finned cr…

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SPREE (2020)—The Medium is the Massacre 2:40:46

3y ago2:40:46

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On this week’s deep dive, The Cultists present Eugene Kotlyarenko’s dark social media satire, ’Spree’ (2020). Loosely based on the 2014 Isla Vista spree killer, Elliot Rodgers, Spree twists the foundations of its tragic origins into something a little more universally tangible with Joe Keery’s “Kurt”—an Uber-style driver and aspiring internet strea…

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RUBBER (2010)—Albert Camus, this one's for You. 2:09:27

3y ago2:09:27

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On this week’s deep dive, The Cultists Present Quentin Dupieux’s ‘Rubber’ (2010). Notoriously known as that movie where a tire gains psychokinetic powers and just enough sentience to go on a killing spree, this film often gets tragically mis-labeled as your standard B-rated monster movie horror romp. And yet, Rubber is anything but. Once and best d…

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THE ASTROLOGER (1976)—I did it all for the numbers. 2:22:17

3y ago2:22:17

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This week, The Cultists present Craig Denny's The Astrologer (1976). In 1976 a man named Craig Denny completed a very special film. A film of significant grand importance to, well, only Craig Denny, really. Essentially your standard vanity project to showcase Denny’s range of “skills,” The Astrologer tells the abridged tale of the alleged autobiogr…

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NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)—I left my heart in Prada, Marfa. 2:17:06

3y ago2:17:06

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’ (2016). The sophomore film by fashion industry icon Tom Ford, on its surface, “Nocturnal” is a gorgeous technical showcase of Ford’s skills behind the camera. Which is why it comes as much more of a surprise that, for a film so beautiful, the core of Nocturnal A…

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SOUTHLAND TALES (2006)—Between a Rock and a Superposition State. 2:56:28

3y ago2:56:28

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On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present Richard Kelly’s sleeper cult epic, 'Southland Tales' (2006). In 2006, the writer and director of 'Donnie Darko' (2001), Richard Kelly, released a very special film into a world that was simply not yet ready for it. Sprawling in scope but jam packed with content, “Southland” is an anti-linear …

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EXCESS BAGGAGE (1997)—Are you there Dave? It’s me, Romance. 2:26:06

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On this week’s deep dive, The Cultists present Excess Baggage (1997). An utterly perplexing and largely forgotten film, “Excess” tells the tale of a young sociopath with a penchant for pyromania whose impulsive plan to fake kidnap herself sets off a chain reaction of inconsequential events that will culminate in a sexual rendezvous with a mumbling …

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SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)—Love means never having to say you need an autopsy. 2:36:58

3y ago2:36:58

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This week The Cultists present the Daniels’ bizarre and beautiful film Swiss Army Man (2016). On the surface a WTF film about a lost man and a flatulent corpse, at its depths ‘Swiss’ is an introspective visual poem about life, love, and the devastating emptiness of loneliness and isolation. Yet again an indie flick that is completely divisive among…

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HERCULES IN NEW YORK (1970)—Bc sometimes you just need to punch a bear in the face. 2:27:49

3y ago2:27:49

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On this this week’s deep dive, The Cultists Present Hercules in New York (1969). Known largely as the film that starred a 22 year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first ever film appearance, "Hercules" is everything it promises to be: A film in which the demi-god son of Zeus, Hercules, well...goes to New York. In prep for this one, Benji does the f…

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THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)— Witches, am I right? 2:23:08

3y ago2:23:08

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On this week’s deep dive, The Cultists present The Blair Witch Project (1999). Marketed upon its release as a true story of real footage showcasing a group of lost filmmakers and their grisly demise, "Blair" quickly became a proto-viral obsession. And what started out as a simple, unassuming experiment in film-making-on-a-budget, quickly turned int…

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SPRING BREAKERS (2012)—Happiness is a Warm, Neon, Whisky-Coated Handgun 2:32:52

3y ago2:32:52

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On this week’s deep dive, The Cultists Present Harmony Korine's controversial cult flick ‘Spring Breakers’ (2012). Booze, bikinis, pissing in the streets, temporal existentialism, Disney-girls-gone-wild, flirtation with French New Wave, Brechtian theater... this movie has a little bit of everything. The one thing this film doesn’t have is an audien…

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THE BLOB (1958)—If it jiggles you can freeze it. 2:19:33

3y ago2:19:33

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On this week’s deep dive, The Cultists Present The Blob (1958). It came from outer space— a red gelatinous goo of surprisingly hardy structural integrity with one thing on its mind: slow, meticulous, all-consuming hunger-based homicide. Starring an already very adult-looking Steve McQueen playing the haggard but charming 17-year-old boy who cried e…

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RETURN TO OZ (1985)—There’s no place like a Victorian Sanatorium 2:29:32

3y ago2:29:32

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On this week's deep dive, The Cultists Present Walter Murch’s Return to Oz (1985). The first and only directorial endeavor by the man who literally wrote The Book on film editing, Murch’s follow up “sequel” to the 1939 MGM classic, The Wizard of Oz, is a sequel like no other. Produced four decades after its predecessor, and taking the stance that O…

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HEATHERS (1989)—Three Cheers for Cheerful Fatalism 2:35:30

3y ago2:35:30

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This week The Cultists Present Michael Lehmann’s ‘Heathers’ (1989). On the surface, Heathers seems like just another flick about mean girls in high school, but lurking not even all that deeply under the film’s pastel veneer is a downright savage satire of the teen experience. Initially written by a young Daniel Waters as a three hour long film in t…

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SWORDFISH (2001)—Neither sword nor fish, discuss. 2:28:58

3y ago2:28:58

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This week, The Cultists Present Dominic Sena’s ‘Swordfish’ (2001). A film that on its surface is just another Hollywood bank job flick about cyber hacking and hostages, Swordfish still manages to stick out among the cache of big budget action films. But why? Is it the film’s notorious green and orange color pallet? Its heavy-handed hypocrisy? John …

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