**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In our third conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into Jerzy Skolimowski's psychosexual drama from 1978, "The Shout." We conclude by interviewing The Trash Shaman, a real-life student of the occult who has had experiences with people escaping cults, and charismatic con-men of the type Alan Bates portrays in the film.
In this episode:...
**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In our third conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into Jerzy Skolimowski's psychosexual drama from 1978, "The Shout." We conclude by interviewing The Trash Shaman, a real-life student of the occult who has had experiences with people escaping cults, and charismatic con-men of the type Alan Bates portrays in the film.
In this episode:
- Bangin' gongs and getttin' it on
- An insane asylum cricket match
- Criminal underuse of Tim Curry
- Criminal overuse of peacocks
- A true-but-not-true story-within-a-story
- Thirsty for Carol Drinkwater
- Prog Rock John Hurt
- 1970s ASMR Videos
- Bicycle sabotage
- Shoe-buckle magic
- A home-invasion masochist
- Why you should never trust a man who drinks with both hands
- Survivor stories from the Great Migraine Epidemic of the 1970s
- Hacking a Courtesy Feedback Loop
- David Lynch's favorite actor
- Extreme dramatic physicality and intense eye contact
- Shoe-based stone exorcisms
- An impromptu Monty Python sketch
- John Broadbent in nothing but a jockstrap and cow dung
- Yet another endorsement for Luxury Gay Space Communism
- Andy is confounded and later wounded sexually
- Zacharia is baffled and irritated
- Daniel is intrigued and annoyed
- Andre revels in weirdness
- The Dickens Syndrome
- Ethan enjoys it way, way too much and thinks way, way too deeply
- An analysis of a Classic Lovecraft Trope
- Psychological domination and gaslighting (in the movie!)
- Food for people's thinky brain-meats
- We meet the Trash Shaman
- Fiction is compared with lived experience
- The Four Phases of Charismatic Con-Men
- Light Shamanism versus Dark Shamanism
- How empathy can get weaponized
- The Amygdala: the 500lb Gorilla
- The Prefrontal Cortex: the 98lb weakling
- Hijacking the placebo effect
- Occultism and psychology
- Some words of warning
FEATURING:
Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)
Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting
Zacharia Berks
…and Special Guest "The Trash Shaman." https://trashaman.blogspot.com/?m=1
Trigger warnings include descriptions of violence, psychological abuse, cultic abuse, misogyny, rape, racism, white saviorism, cultural relativism, bad representations of mental illness, body horror.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
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