Cult of the Living Dead

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we journey across windswept deserts, cavernous palaces, and spice-filled wastelands in Dune . In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic science-fiction saga, tracing how the film blends cosmic prophecy, political intrigue, and surreal body horror into a sprawling tale of destiny and rebellion. We explore how Paul...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we peek behind white picket fences, shadowy alleyways, and nightmare-soaked suburban interiors in Blue Velvet . In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack David Lynch’s 1986 neo-noir nightmare, tracing how the film peels back the glossy veneer of small-town America to reveal a world of obsession, violence, and psychosexual decay. We explore how Jeffrey Beaumont’s voye...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we trek through fog-covered Scottish Highlands, isolated farmhouses, and blood-soaked forests in Dog Soldiers. In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack Neil Marshall’s 2002 werewolf horror film, tracing how the movie fuses military action, siege tension, and creature-feature brutality into a relentless fight for survival. We explore how Sergeant Wells’ doomed traini...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we tumble through dubbed-over monasteries, cow-filled battlefields, and nonsensical kung fu arenas in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist. In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack Steve Oedekerk’s 2002 martial arts spoof, tracing how the film weaponizes recycled footage and absurd dubbing to turn a traditional revenge narrative into a barrage of surreal, fourth-wall-breaking g...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we crash into suburban backyards, alien wastelands, and neon-soaked battlefields in Psycho Goreman . In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack Steven Kostanski’s 2020 splatter-comedy oddity, tracing how the film weaponizes childhood imagination to bend a galaxy-conquering tyrant into a pet through a series of absurd, gore-drenched power plays. We explore how Mimi’s d...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we descend into the blood-soaked streets of Boston in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day . In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack Troy Duffy’s 2009 vigilante sequel, tracing how the film expands the MacManus brothers’ myth from underground legend to operatic blood feud through a series of stylized, almost comic-book set pieces. We explore how the cold ritual o...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we drift through silent orbitals, antiseptic spacecraft corridors, and the unnerving vastness of deep space in 2001: A Space Odyssey . In this episode, The Dale and Cea unpack Kubrick’s monumental 1968 sci-fi odyssey, tracing how the film stretches from prehistoric violence to cosmic rebirth through a series of precise, almost ritualistic images. We explore how the...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we descend into the sterile kitchens, quiet apartments, and unnervingly empty monotony of Chime . In this episode, The Dale and Cea as we unpack Chime, tracing how a single unexplained sound fractures the fragile routines of ordinary life. We explore how Chime compresses Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s signature themes of alienation, fractured reality, and into a 45-minute desce...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we dive into the sun-drenched streets, pulpy violence, and interconnected chaos of Freaky Tales. In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and special guest Aristotle unpack the film’s genre-hopping structure, tracing its web of misfit characters, punks, criminals, fighters, and NBA Stars as their stories collide across a heightened, almost mythic version of 1980s Oakland. Wh...

In this episode, the boys went to the movie and watched 2026’s Undertone . Directed by Ian Tuason, Undertone is a slow-burning descent into psychological dread, where sound, silence, and perception begin to unravel reality itself. Join The Dale, Cea, and Twan as we break down whether Undertone delivers on its creepy atmospheric promise or gets lost in its own ambiguity. We’ll discuss the highs and...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we cruise into the suburbs and chrome-plated nightmare of Stephen King's Christine (1983). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s fusion of teenage alienation and supernatural obsession, tracing Arnie Cunningham’s transformation as his life becomes entwined with a jealous, bloodthirsty Plymouth Fury. We explore how hoe John Carpenter's ad...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we plunge headfirst into enchanted forests, primal innocence, and baroque nightmare imagery in Legend. In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s strange cult legacy, tracing the fragile balance between light and darkness as the last unicorns are hunted and the world begins to slide toward eternal winter. Following the forest-dwelling Jack, the curio...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we plunge headfirst into mechanical wonder, existential dread, and hand-drawn spectacle in Robot Carnival. In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s cult legacy, tracing a loose procession of animated vignettes that explore humanity’s obsession with creation, automation, and self-destruction, from playful clockwork fantasies and melancholic robot ro...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we plunge headfirst into cosmic nihilism, nerd fantasy, and rotoscope spectacle in Heavy Metal (1981). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s cult reputation, tracing the corrupting journey of the glowing green evil known as Loc-Nar as it threads together a chain of brutal, sex-charged, and apocalyptic tales across time and space, from doomed ast...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we plunge headfirst into the sun-scorched highways, occult bravado, and lawless excess of Álex de la Iglesia’s Perdita Durango (1997). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s feral cult reputation, tracing the violent road trip of Perdita and her unhinged lover Romeo Dolorosa as a botched kidnapping, and a Santería-fueled scheme spirals into ritua...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we descend into the blood-spattered back alleys and righteous fury of Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints (1999). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s cult-born legacy, tracing Irish Catholic brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus as a drunken bar brawl, a mysterious execution, and a whispered blessing from a shadowy figure ignite their violent crusa...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we slow down and roll across the American heartland in David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack Lynch’s most disarming film, tracing Alvin Straight’s improbable journey from rural Iowa to Wisconsin on a riding lawn mower, fueled by stubborn pride, quiet regret, and a need to make things right. We explore how The Straig...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we stumble through the rise, fall, and endlessly repeated rebirth of American music legend Dewey Cox in Jake Kasdan’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s demolition of the music biopic, tracing Dewey’s journey from childhood trauma to chart-topping fame, creative excess, and total emotional collapse. We e...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we descend into the Georgetown townhouse that forever changed horror in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan unpack the film’s collision of medical realism and spiritual terror, tracing Regan MacNeil’s possession as faith erodes and doubt takes root. We explore how domestic normalcy turns to blasphemy, where science fails,...

Join Cult of the Living Dead as we bike back into the rain-slick streets and storm-drain shadows of Stephen King’s most cursed town in It: Welcome to Derry (2025). In this episode, The Dale, Cea, and Twan dive into the show’s prequel mythology, unpacking generational fear, small-town rot, and the chilling origin of the cosmic clown who feeds on children. We explore how the series expands the Loser...

In this episode of Cult of the Living Dead , we unwrap all three versions of Black Christmas (1974, 2006, and 2019), tracing how one eerie holiday slasher keeps getting reborn for better and worse. The Dale, Cea, and Twan break down the original’s suffocating atmosphere, the 2006 remake’s mean-spirited excess, and the 2019 reboot’s polarizing reinvention. We dig into shifting themes of voyeurism,...

In this episode of Cult of the Living Dead , we unwrap the controversy and carnage of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), the slasher that turned Santa Claus into a seasonal boogeyman. The Dale, Cea, and Twan dig into the film’s moral panic origins, its mean-spirited holiday nihilism, and how trauma and repression fuel Billy’s bloody path. We discuss the protests, the pulled ads, and why the film’s...

In this episode of Cult of the Living Dead, we step into the icy nightmare of Jack Frost , where a small town is terrorized by a killer who returns in the most unlikely form: a sentient snowman born from a chemical accident. The Dale, Cea, and Twan break down how the film blends slasher tropes with dark humor, and why its low-budget absurdity somehow works better than it should. We dig into the fi...

In this episode of Cult of the Living Dead , we brave the apocalyptic world of Black Friday , where retail hell turns literal as a parasitic alien outbreak crashes the biggest shopping night of the year. The Dale, Cea, and Twan break down how the film recreates what it's like to work retail, and how the customers are the real monsters all along. We dig into the the underwhelming story and how...

In this episode, The Dale and Cea dissect the rise of long-form terror and ask whether television has quietly dethroned film as horror’s true powerhouse. From prestige chillers like IT: Welcome to Derry, and The Haunting of Hill House , we explore how episodic storytelling reshapes fear. The crew digs into it in this new world of streaming. Have production companies placed their investments in you...