The Cult Section

Tank Girl (1995)

This week, the Seths find themselves dying of thirst in asteroid ravaged 2033, and only Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, Ice-T and a ragtag gang of misfits can save them as they look at Rachel Talalay's 1995 iconic feminist cinematic comic book, "Tank Girl!" Join us - we'll meet up with some hipster kangaroos, breathe new life into an old fighter jet, spout sarcasm while trying not to drown, tackle an AI-enhanced Malcolm McDowell and blow the hell out of everything that maintains the patriarchy this week on The Cult Section! P-p-pa-ow!

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

This week, the Seths implore you to remember when you heard this podcast once before... a year ago? Or the year before - either on this liminal platform or another - so many shows and episodes... episodes and shows repeating infinitely, like the hotel-based dreamspaces of Last Year at Marienbad (1961), directed by Alain Resnais and starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Abertazzi and Sacha Pitoeff. Join our hosts as they hide behind weird toparies, dissociate heavily while staring at a balustrade, scream when objects are lit unexpectedly and descend into pipe-organ induced catatonia this week on The Cult Section!

Altered States (1980)

The Seths pass out in a sensory deprivation tank filled with a mysterious truck-themed selzter and trip out into primordial versions of themselves as they watch Ken Russell's proto-walk-and-talk psychedelic journey "Altered States" (1980) starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban and Charles Haid. Are psychedelics the true path to enlightenment? Will Edward Jessop defeat his own ego, the criticism of his team of sycophantic chums, the unconditional love of his wife and family and a hand-stabbing hellish blood ritual to find himself and the true meaning of existence? Is William Hurt still hot as a cro-magnon carnivore? We'll grasp blindly in the dark under the thousand eyes of a goat angel in search of these answers and many more this week on The Cult Section!

The Love Witch (2016)

The Seths pull tarot and face dire consequences as they look at the celebrated (if not financially successful) 2016 indie darling from Anna Biller, starring Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys and Jeffrey Vincent Parise. Elaine is new to town, in a quest to escape her past and start again with hopes of finding love. But her means of pursuit have some tricky bits that land her in hot water. Will she be triumphant - or are her methods too risky and patriarchy too impervious? We'll follow her through victorian tea parties, into burlesque clubs and sketchy woodland retreats, as she risks friendships, navigates ancient rites and casts complex spells that may cost her everything or win the day join us as we do, this week on The Cult Section!

Nightbreed (1990)

This week on The Cult Section, we dig into an old graveyard to unearth the 1990 Clive Barker monstertpiece "Nightbreed!" It's a surprise sideways return to Cronenmonth as the Seths travel to a cursed Canadian "town" in search of answers to the REAL questions... Is everything true? Is Oz over the rainbow? Is God an astronaut? Is Midian where the monsters live? Only Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Conenberg and one of the most bizarre ensemble casts ever assembled know for sure, and they'll tell you all about it in the darkest ways possible - if you're destined to know! We'll follow Boone, a man cursed from the start who finds escape in disturbing dreams and in the arms of his unflappable girlfriend Lori, a woman who knows no fear - as the two go up against centuries of stigma, militarized police, serial killers, seedy motels and wisecracking morticians in pursuit of darkest destiny.