Mid-Century

Ghostly goings-on in this short-term rental shocker

"...least well-appointed, with a twist of some kind of cult activity behind it all. But just when you think..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crimes of the Future

Cronenberg's return to body horror is, well, Cronenbergian

"...rusting Adriatic port, the duo has achieved a strange cult status from Tenser's innards conspiring against him by producing..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Turnstile Is Happy to Provide at Stubb’s

Big riff breakouts lead five-band testament to punk plurality

"...towards Eighties-rooted purism. Recent Run For Cover signees Truth Cult share Baltimore origins with the headliners, though their sound..."

May 7, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Sam Raimi makes the most Sam Raimi Marvel film imaginable

"...they brought one with such an established style and cult fandom as Sam Raimi? The man behind The Evil..."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Escape the Field

Labyrinthine thriller knows to just follow the old map

"...the ever-enduring appeal of the cinematic labyrinth. From modern cult classics like Cube to studio programmers like Escape Room,..."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Three Music Writers Descend Into the NFT Craze at SXSW

One NFT-fatigued, one NFT-Curious, and NFT-skeptical

"...hiding negative experiences, their thesis was: Crypto is a cult. Googling on our walk home, my friend and I..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Wait, How Does SXSW Music Work Again?

Breaking down the basics, and some favorites, after three years away

"...fantastic Chronicle Music team's supplement handling all your cutting-edge, cult-y artist recommendations (see "101 Essential Acts" in our SXSW..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Clean

Adrien Brody gets dirty in this suitably scummy revenge drama

"...the horror track after his South by Southwest 2009 cult favorite Grace, but instead applied those sensibilities in surprising..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Joy-filled animated family SF comedy is an explosion of fun

"...this uproarious family comedy lie in the Disney Channel’s cult favorite, Gravity Falls. Rianda and Rowe both wrote for..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Labyrinth of Cinema

House director’s love letter to movies, peace, and history

"...might only know Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s name because of his cult Japanese hit House, but Ôbayashi’s legacy of experimental cinema..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro goes into the dark of greedy souls in this noir remake

"...Based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 controversial cult novel, the script by del Toro and Kim Morgan..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The United States of Insanity

Inside the family of Juggalos, and the deranged government crusade against them

"...of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, musical and cultural outsiders whose dark, sardonic, slasher-flick inspired music has become..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

Gory take on the original survival horror game

"...initial mixed reception but has given way to certain cult acclaim (you should go watch Retribution again with an..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Prisoners of the Ghostland

Nic Cage and Sion Sono craziness is not the sum of its parts

"...wouldn't be an issue for Sono, who overstuffed 2015 cult favorite Tokyo Tribe to bursting seams but managed to..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

With hammer, chisels, and steel brushes in hand, the Austin artist is on a trajectory in stone

"...which, Shogan moved to France, where she joined a cult...."

Sept. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Boss Baby: Family Business

Why is a movie about a talking baby this convoluted?

"...the timeless Cat Stevens song “Sing Out” from the cult film Harold and Maude? Sometimes, it’s the simple things..."

July 2, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Triumph

High school wrestling drama is admirable for giving athletes with disabilities a platform

"...for director Brett Leonard from his Eighties and Nineties cult genre fare like The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity. He..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo find a few laughs as vacationing friends

"...cute little comedy that seems destined to be a cult classic for a lot of moviegoers. Don’t be surprised..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Atlantis

Ukrainian post-war drama finds a nation dealing with and healing from PTSD

"...most as the cinematographer for The Tribe, his 2014 cult favorite about life in a Ukrainian boarding school for..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Bloodhound

Poe adaptation relishes tone over text

"...House of Usher" is deliberately stylized. It's reminiscent of cult favorite du jour Mickey Reece's Heartland Baroque, just without..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius

Time to get slack once again with the bizarro Austin anti-cult

"...wave sensibilities and tropes in music, film, and pop culture. It was an in-joke with a half-serious punchline...."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

You Don't Nomi

Should you re-assess Showgirls? No, but that's not what's happening here?

"...dozens more. McHale definitely creates an exploration of a cultural - or at least cult - phenomenon that feels..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Committing Random Acts of Violence With Jay Baruchel

Exploring our thirst for horror in his deconstructionist horror

"...To Train Your Dragon movies, and had just penned cult smashmouth hockey comedy Goon. When they started writing, he..."

Aug. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Relic

Senility and the supernatural in this nerve-wracking Australian horror

"...Really, in recent years, it's been Relic and slow-burn cult favorite The Taking of Deborah Logan, and that's pretty..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Irresistible

"Can't we all just get along?"-style political comedy from The Daily Show veterans

"...Bill Clinton, and George Bush, and Donald Trump. The cult of anti-intellectualism, that the outsider is the cure to..."

June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shirley

Elizabeth Moss gets in the head of the Haunting of Hill House author

"...of a local student), female intimacy and obsession, the cult of personality, and the life/death sentence of traditional domestic..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Wolf House

Chilean found footage animation is a technical miracle

"...the allure of fascism, of the seductive power of cult leaders and how they undermine the self-confidence of their..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sátántangó

Bela Tarr's marathon exploration of evil and inertia in a small town, gorgeously restored

"...than the camera, in a shot that would be difficult enough with people. Did I mention the thing about..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Spencer Parsons

The Lodge

Icy melding of horror and religion is cool, not chilling

"...but they add strands of faith and religion, meshing cult beliefs with cabin fever, and the interplay of innocence..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Sonata

Musical mystery in this Gothic romance

"...we haven't even got to the ancient French Satanic cult, the hidden symbols, the locked rooms, the housekeeper who..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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