Holy Hell

A cinematic chronicle of the Buddhafield cult and its participants

"...A documentary about a pseudo-religious cult as seen from the inside out, Holy Hell is..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All Attitude

"I'm a very nice girl -- who happens to be completely amoral," says cult queen Mary Woronov. She'll present two films -- Death Race 2000 and Rock 'n' Roll High School --at the Rolling Roadshow's Rock 'n Roll Drive-In this Saturday.

"...MW: I'm really a cult queen now. I'm not even a personality. Now, I..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Faults

A cult deprogrammer needs some mental floss of his own.

"...of a young woman he once rescued from a cult and then exploited for his own gain. At the..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

The cult following that surrounds the audio tapes of a couple of slurry drunks that were surreptitiously recorded in the late Eighties is given the documentary treatment.

"...dubs of their audiotapes and passed them around. A cult following was born...."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Not Forgotten

This unusual U.S.-Mexico border film is a thriller starring Simon Baker and Paz Vega, and it's screening in Austin prior to its national release.

"...explore issues other than the porousness of personal and cultural identity. Not Forgotten is a border-town thriller, which premiered..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shattered Image

"...Not reviewed at press time. Daring narrative experimentation is cult auteur Raul Ruiz's forte, and this new murder mystery..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

"...viewer uninitiated in Gould's career, personal eccentricities, and overall cultural importance, 32 Short Films will explain very little about..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Midsommar

Ari Aster’s folk-horror excursion to Scandinavia never sees the forest for the trees

"...Aster swaps occult for cult with his sophomore effort, as Dani and..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Endless

Sibling banter and cosmic terror means observational comedy horror.

"...the elder brother Justin (Benson) calls a UFO death cult. But what Aaron (Moorhead) recalls is a bunch of..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Emma Cline's The Girls

This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969

"...remembers Evie was a footnote in a murderous hippie cult's legend, causing Evie's memory tapes to unspool wildly. Now..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

DVD Watch: 'Freaked'

Alex Winter talks cult classics and the Butthole Surfers

"...them all. Winter said, "It was made as a cult movie, and it was originally conceived of as a..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Martha Marcy May Marlene

A psychological thriller that's stripped of the usual Hollywood trappings, this film maintains a sense of oppressive threat throughout.

"...Marlene unfolds at a leisurely pace that befits the cult's ramshackle surroundings. Patrick is a modern-day Fagin with a..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Bounce

There's very little bounce in this new Elmore Leanard adaptation that stars Owen Wilson and Morgan Freeman.

"...Leonard’s material. Otherwise the setting is dull, and the cult-friendly cast is given little more to do than pose...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Lansdale Unraveled

How a cult director translated a cult author to craft a surefire cult favor

"...That's just fitting, somehow. Clambake it ain't, but with cult favorite director Don Coscarelli (creator of the Phantasm series)..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

American Splendor

At the center of its uniquely beating heart, American Splendor is a heartfelt valentine to Everymen (and Women) everywhere

"...joyless squalor of post-boom Cleveland. That curmudgeon is underground cult icon Harvey Pekar, who has spent nearly three decades..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Derrida

If you don't already worship Derrida, this film won't change your mind.

"...family. This material really only seems to feed the cult of personality and reveals nothing much more than this..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...they're the Toxic Avenger, the sludgy superhero of the cult horror-comedy series, whose next feature gets its world premiere..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Other Lamb

Cult drama's inevitable twists may not convert you

"...If there was one cult in the world straight women would have to join,..."

Sept. 23, 2019 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Step Inside

The Cult’s Ian Astbury on Boris and "The End"

"...the world premiere of Boris’ new collaboration with the Cult's Ian Astbury, BXI, an unlikely meeting point between the..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

From Austin to Neptune

Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite

"...Try as one might, it's difficult to find anyone able or willing to talk smack..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Aviary

Desert-set cult drama is a little dry

"...of a thriller about two young women fleeing a cult in the New Mexican desert, goes round and round..."

April 29, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Blue Öyster Cult, Mannequin Pussy, Guthrie Girls, and more shows to see

"...are so happy to oblige." – Carys Anderson Blue Öyster CultHaute Spot, Saturday 9..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Faster Than Sound: Unearthing Daniel Johnston’s If

Producer Brian Beattie has an unreleased Daniel Johnston album ready, but can’t make amends with the late cult singer’s management

"...In January 2018, Chronicle writer Kevin Curtin spoke with cult legend Daniel Johnston ahead of Austin's inaugural Hi, How..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Boy Erased

Joel Edgerton goes to gay conversion therapy's heart of darkness

"...Our culture wars have spawned any number of slyly subversive takes..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Side of the Wind

Should Orson Welles' last film have stayed lost?

"...that Hannaford is screening, a wordless look at Sixties counterculture starring a Native American woman (Kodar) and a leading..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mandy

Nicolas Cage is stunning in this hallucinogenic revenger

"...as the mad leader of a bizarre “Jesus freak” cult that has apocalyptic doom on their short list of..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Filmworker

Leon Vitali, Kubrick's right-hand man, forever in the maestro's shadow

"...fine line between maverick genius and manipulative bully. The cult of Kubrick is such that no one still dare..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Circle

An absurd cautionary tale on technology

"...to drink the corporate Kool-Aid like members of a cyber-cult. Witness the fate of Mae’s ex-boyfriend Mercer (a stiff..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Strange things are afoot in the morgue

"...debut by André Øverdal, the Norwegian director of the cult film Trollhunter, is a taut and economical horror film,..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Invitation

Girlfight director Karyn Kusama helms dinner-party thriller

"...Pruitt (Lynch) – are involved in some sort of cult, and you have a pretty compelling concoction for some..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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