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Nameless Cults
by Nameless Cults
A podcast about horror movies, weird fiction, and the dark bowers of man's domain.
Episodes
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Episode 66 - Friday the 13th Parts VII & VIII
Hello and Happy Halloween Nameless Cults Listeners! We celebrated the momentous occasion of a Friday, October 13th to go to a double feature of Friday the 13th Parts VII & VIII outdoors in the Rocky Woods (courtesy of the Coolidge Corner Theater). Has this softened Dan's stance on the Friday...
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Episode 65 - Skinamarink
We're back! And this time around, we're discussing the new microbudget horror movie everyone's talking about, Kyle Edward Ball's Skinamarink! We also discuss the mysteries of TikTok, Youtube horror as a subgenre, and our own half-remembered childhood nightmares. Enjoy! Full list of movies…
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Episode 64 - Hellraiser
Happy Halloween!!! The time has come for the Nameless Cults crew to tackle all things Hellraiser - the new Hellraiser, the old Hellraiser, and various Hellraiser media in between. We also dig into the career of Clive Barker with plenty of digressions about horror literature of the '80s and '90s...
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Episode 63 - Nope
Nameless Cults is back! With a long overdue look at Jordan Peele's popcorn hit of the summer, Nope! Is this Jordan Peele's Signs, Jordan Peele's Tremors, or both? We discuss family lore and our feelings on various primates. How many times can we reference Peter Jackson's King Kong on this…
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Episode 62 - Mad God
Hello Nameless Cults Listeners! We're back with a discussion of stop motion effects legend Phil Tippet's long gestating passion project, Mad God! In which Dan teaches us about Go-Motion and the dining habits of the Harlequin Shrimp, and Michael reccomends some of his favorite '90s anime OAVs and...
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Episode 61 - Crimes of the Future
Greetings! The Nameless Cults boys are joined by Hawke Cast's own Kyle Amato to discuss God King of Body Horror David Cronenberg's new film, Crimes of the Future! We discuss Cronenberg as sweet old man, engage in some Viggo/David roleplay, and try to figure out where to buy our own breakfast...
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Episode 60 - Winterbeast
Brr... lousy Smarch weather. The Nameless Cults crew celebrates all things winter in New England with the 1986/1989/1992 no budget regional classic, Winterbeast! Shout out to the Wild Goose Lodge and especially the Wandering Moon bookstore. Michael gets very nostalgic about his childhood and Dan...
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Episode 59 - The Coming aka Burned at the Stake
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Nameless Cults! On today's episode we cover a witchy obscurity that never escaped the VHS era, 1981's The Coming aka Burned at the Stake! Take a virtual trip to the famous Salem Witch Museum! Participate in character assassination of real life historical figures! Learn about...
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Episode 58 - Cast a Deadly Spell
Nameless Cults is back! On this episode we discuss the forgotten made-for-HBO mashup of Raymond Chandler's L.A. noir and H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, 1991's Cast a Deadly Spell! Are Horror and Crime the only two good genres? Does Gale Anne Hurd own a helicopter? Have they changed the formula...
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Episode 57 - 2021 Summer Catchup (or, The Fightin' Thunderbirds)
Hello again! The Nameless Cults Crew welcomes summer with a free-for-all touching on everything from cryptids to fantasy novels to movie theater candy choices. We also talk millipedes vs. centipedes, vertebrates vs. invertebrates, and dip into our mailbag. Enjoy! Full list of movies discussed in...
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Episode 56 - Possessor
Nameless Cults is back! In this episode we tackle Brandon Cronenberg's cyberpunk-by-way-of-body-horror sophomore effort, Posessor! We also discuss corporate psychopathy, tailless whip scorpions, and Rob Ford. We're pretty divided on this one, so enjoy the flying sparks... Full list of movies...
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Episode 55 - The Day of the Beast
Happy Holidays, Cultists! We come bearing gifts, the gifts being our discussion of the ultimate AntiChristmas horror film, Álex De La Iglesia's 1995 cult classic The Day of the Beast! Topics include He-Goats, Battletoads, and the joys of soft lighting. Plus, a two minute capsule review of 1989's...
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Episode 54 - Halloween Hangover 2020
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Nameless Cults brings you the Halloween Hangover! We discuss some of our favorites among the movies we watched this past Halloween season and then we delve back into the Nameless Cults Mailbag. Topics include homunculi, Warhammer 40K, and countries with...
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Episode 53 - The Monster Squad
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! We revisit a childhood favorite that gives you all your favorite monsters in one place, Fred Dekker's 1987 classic The Monster Squad! Topics include the state of modern screenwriting, tales from our childhood, and whether Fred Dekker should sue James Cameron. Enjoy!
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Episode 52 - Pregaming Halloween 2020
Howdy Cultists! This episode finds us catching up on our post-plague hellscape with some pregaming for the Halloween season, including lots of reading, viewing, and videogaming recommendations. Plus, some more Q&A from the Nameless Cults mailbag! Topics include pumpkin spice, weirdo rich…
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Episode 51 - Nameless Cults Double Feature! (The Lighthouse/Night Tide)
Ahoy, Mateys! The Crew of the S.S. Nameless Cults is ringing in Summer with two horror movies about the seas and coasts of America, 2019's The Lighthouse and 1961's Night Tide. Topics include sensitive sailors, fine art, and the occult in Hollywood. Enjoy!
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Episode 50 - Tom Savini
Hello and welcome to our fiftieth episode! In which we discuss the career of the Guru of Gore, the Sultan of Splatter, special effects legend Tom Savini! Topics include our favorite effects moments in Savini's filmography, effects artists as auteurs, and the first movies to make us want to throw...
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Episode 49 - Sole Survivor
Greetings from the Quarantine Zone! We're back with another Patron Request Episode, this time talking about 1984's Sole Survivor. We discuss whether or not Final Destination and It Follows blatantly ripped this movie off, our favorite Twilight Zone episodes, and Batman. To request your own…
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Episode 48 - Color Out of Space
Greetings... from beyond! In this episode we discuss the new adaptation of one of our favorite H.P. Lovecraft stories by the fresh-out-of-director-jail Richard Stanley, Color Out of Space! We also discuss the paperback Necronomicon, the case of the Radium Girls, and an aesthetic we like to call...
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Episode 47 - Cats
Happy New Year! The Nameless Cults Crew and the Hawke Cast Crew (Kyle Amato and Corey Purcell) join forces to discuss how our brains were all melted by 2019's hallucinatory Lovecraftian horror musical, Cats! We also give you some other cat-related horror reading and viewing recommendations.…
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Episode 46 - Black Christmas
Happy Horror Holidays, y'all! We talk about the genuinely terrifying slasher classic Black Christmas! We also talk about how I've never seen an episode of Columbo, the distinction between spree killers and serial killers, and non-Christmas Holiday Horror. Enjoy! Full list of movies discussed in…
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Episode 45 - Late Phases
Awoooo! Nameless Cults returns to the Wild World of Werewolves with an examination of 2014's Late Phases! Dan demonstrates his in-depth knowledge of the Riddick franchise, Michael reveals his favorite movie of 2019, and together we explore the horror of getting old. Shout out to patreon backer…
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Episode 44 - Nameless Cults Halloween SpecDRACULAr
We bid you... welcome. We celebrate this year with an extra large episode on your friend and mine, Count Dracula, focusing specifically on the films Bram Stoker's Dracula, Horror of Dracula, and Dracula's Daughter. Dan takes you through Dracula's many forms including...
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Episode 43 - Mailbag II: Son of Mailbag
It's the return of the Nameless Cults Mailbag! We discuss when movie violence goes too far, everyone's favorite scene from Rawhead Rex, and The Devil's Butthole. A list of Non-Italian Euro Horror here: https://letterboxd.com/kenfrankenstein/list/non-italian-euro-horror/ And the full list of…
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Episode 42 - Horror Video Games
We're joined by a special guest, indie game developer Drew Katsikas (find him on twitter at @vmpr_cmptr_ppl), to talk about the wide world of horror video games! In particular we focus on two very creepy indie games, Faith and Paratopic. Other topics include kinesthetics, what games scared us the...
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Episode 41 - Midsommar
We're joined by pal Todd Stark to discuss Ari Aster's new creepy cult movie, Midsommar! Topics include Dan's blissful disconnect from pop culture, sun worship, and Freejack! Apologies for the rough audio on this one, it was recorded across two dying computers. Full list of movies discussed in the...
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Episode 40 - Godzilla
Episode 40! We discuss everyone's favorite big nuclear boy, Godzilla! Topics include the first Godzilla movies we saw as kids, Godzilla themed burlesque, and, for no particular reason, a reminder of how good Alien³ is. Sorry the sound quality is a little iffy on this one, my computer is on…
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Episode 39 - Long Weekend
Another Patreon backer picked episode! Just in time for the upcoming long weekend (if you're in the U.S., anyway), we're here to talk about 1978 Aussie eco-thriller Long Weekend (currently streaming on Amazon Prime)! We also talk dugongs, alcoholic british actors, and toxic relationships, and we...
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Episode 38 - Knife + Heart
We're back baby! We discuss a new instant cult classic, the queer giallo film Knife + Heart with special guest Kyle Amato of the Hawke Cast and the Boston Hassle! We keep it spoiler free for the most part, We discuss the intersection of horror and queer cinema, I mangle lots of French words, and...
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Episode 37 - Us
Hello again, and hello again! We're back with our discussion of Jordan Peele's second film, the new horror blockbuster, Us! Topics include Mystery Science Theater 3000's rule of gags, the Steve Buscemi/Jennifer Lawrence deepfake video, and the ultimate OKCupid question. Enjoy!
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Episode 36 - Werewolves
Nameless Cults is back with a discussion of everyone's favorite human-canine hybrid, the mighty Werewolf! Topics include how to tweak the often rigid werewolf formula, pagan bookstores, and why child actors should be replaced with dogs. Aooouuuuu! Full list of movies discussed in this episode…
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Episode 35 - Intro to Cosmic Horror (Part 2)
Our exploration of Cosmic Horror continues! We discuss the modern cosmic horror canon through the lens of 2016's low-budget gem The Void, as well as touching on old favorites Prince of Darkness and Phantasm. Topics include Halloween commercials, the 1990s panic over children getting hit by cars,...
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Episode 34 - Intro to Cosmic Horror (part 1)
We're back with another Patreon subscriber request episode, and it's a fun one: part one of a two-part examination of the Cosmic Horror subgenre! We try to define just what exactly "Cosmic Horror" entails, reveal our favorite H.P. Lovecraft stories, and use more ten-dollar words than in any other...
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Episode 33 - Stepfathers & Stepmonsters (THE LOST EPISODE!)
Back from the dead with a spooky Lost Episode! We look at a few movies that use the trope of evil step-parents! Topics include America's Most Wanted, having a secret second family, and a very cool screening we went to last summer. Shout out to High Energy Vintage! Full list of movies discussed...
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Episode 32 - NAMELESS CULTS XMAS SPECIAL! Silent Night, Deadly Night
Settle in for some Ho-Ho-Horror with the Nameless Cults crew! We discuss the most notorious Santa Slasher, 1984's Silent Night Deadly Night! We talk nun stories, eye lighting, and The Last Temptation of Christ. Good luck getting all that blood out of your big white beard. Full list of movies...
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Episode 31 – 2018 Catchup Part 2: Halloween '18
The long awaited second part to our 2018 catchup episode! We discuss the eighth (or eleventh depending on how you're counting) entry in the Halloween series. Dan gasps in horror as I synopsize Halloween parts five through eight, we piss off all the linoleum salesmen in our listenership, and there...
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Episode 30 - 2018 Catchup Part 1: Mandy
And we're back! With what was originally supposed to be a double-feature episode that ended up becoming a two-parter. So join us here for part one of a discussion on some of 2018's big horror releases! First up: Mandy, the new occult splatter film from Panos Cosmatos starring Andrea Riseborough…
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Episode 29 - NAMELESS CULTS 2018 HALLOWEEN FRANKENSPECIAL!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN GANG! Join us as we celebrate not just Halloween but the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by watching and discussing two of the most important movies in the Frankenstein canon: Frankenstein (1931) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)!
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Episode 28 - The Mailbag!
Our very first mailbag episode! We field questions from you, the erudite Nameless Cults listener, including what's our favorite Vincent Price movie, who we think is the modern William Castle, and which single frame in horror scares us the most. Enjoy!
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Episode 27 - Scalpel
Our first Patreon backer picked episode, courtesy of listener Erik (on twitter at @Unrealized_Tomb)! We check out the weird and silly 1977 psychological thriller Scalpel, along the way we discuss Carol Burnett, decaying new world aristocracy, and whether people were just straight up eating cat…
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Episode 26 - Hereditary
Hello hello! Sorry for the delay and sorry for the audio quality, i kinda botched the recording of this one. But the exciting news is we have our first ever guest - Corey of the Hawke Cast - on to discuss Hereditary, the latest movie that scared the shit out of everybody. Topics include occult...
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Episode 25 - Road Trip!
Hit the road with the Nameless Cults crew as we talk about horror movies taking place on America's highways! Mostly we just talk about The Hitcher (in a long, somewhat spoilery discussion), but we make time for some others at the end including Duel, Joy Ride, Breakdown and The Hitch-Hiker. Topics...
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Episode 24 - Sea Monsters
Ahoy maties! In this one we splash into the wonderful world of sea monsters, centering around a deep dive on the excellent 1998 popcorn flick Deep Rising. Other topics include Galapagos iguanas, octopodes vs. heptapodes, and Daniel Stern vehicles. Enjoy!
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Episode 23 - Annihilation
In this one, we take on Alex Garland's brainy sci-fi destined-to-be-a-cult-classic Annihilation! Topics include the film's connection to Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker and H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour out of Space, forgotten MTV show Undressed, and a way too long tangent about the Star Wars prequels....
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Episode 0 - The Patreon Episode!
We have a patreon now! This mini-episode is to serve as a little explainer. Find it at patreon.com/namelesscults Get at us on twitter at twitter.com/xnamelesscultsx WE LOVE YOU! (outro music is Milk Money by the great King Cop)
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Episode 22 - Killer Robots
We awaken from our long slumber to bring you a chilling tale of horrors to come... Killer Robots! We also talk about hookup party etiquette, softcore parody titles, and drone warfare. And we come up with what's honestly a pretty brilliant idea for a Chopping Mall sequel - get at us, Jim Wynorski.
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Episode 21 - Top 3 Death Scenes
An episode truly epic in scale and scope. We go through our favorite death scenes in horror history. Along the way we sing the praises of Dumb & Dumber, Dan mixes up Jerry Goldsmith for Jerry Seinfeld, and we officially launch our plan to get Ridley Scott on the podcast. Also, this episode has…
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Episode 20 - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
We talk about horror movies that involve dreams as well as some of our favorite dream/nightmare sequences in film. Topics include brutalist architecture, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, and Dan's ongoing obsession with The Stupids. Enjoy!
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Episode 19 - Cannibalism!
We're back from our holiday hiatus - or should I say holiday hi-ATE-us (ugh, no I shouldn't), because this time we're talking about the most delicious of horror subgenres, the cannibal movie! Subtopics include death metal, rare Fangoria covers, and the importance of family. Dig in!
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Episode 18 - NAMELESS CULTS 2017 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Get those Silver Shamrock masks on and listen to us discuss some of our favorite Halloween movies not directed by John Carpenter, in particular Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Night of the Demons, and Trick 'r Treat. We share conflicting opinions of Idle Hands, I make a...
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