The Cinemania Society Podcast

Cinquisitor Ethan starts to show some decline in mental health as he leads the Society through their examination of Stuart Gordon & Brian Yuzna's quintessential flesh-fest from 1986, "From Beyond," an '80s horror adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's story of the same name.   Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Inc...

Verifier Andy presents a Profile in Cinemania on Cinemania Patient Zero: H.P. Lovecraft, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. Despite a rabid fear of everything, and incomprehensible degree of bigotry, he still managed to end up being one of the primary architects of the past century of science-fiction and horror.   Written and performed by Andy Slack Sound design & editing by Andy Slack Caricature...

As the Society spies on their possibly sinister but definitely mysterious doppelgangers, Cinquisitor Ethan gets the idea to hold a Conclave examining Stuart Gordon's 1986 horror-comedy-horror film "From Beyond," perhaps the single most definitive adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story yet made. Definitely the stickiest, at any rate. Listen as hijinks ensue. Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy S...

In preparation for Conclave 18 (which is an absolute *banger,* the Society is re-running Verifier Andy's Profile in Cinemania celebrating Jeffrey Combs. See if you can guess what Combs-driven feature is going to feature in our next Conclave!   Written and produced by Andy Slack Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound Caricature art by An...

Winding down our delve into all matters Frankensteinian, Verifier Andy and Cinquisitor Ethan meet to discuss the feminist-friendly flesh-golem feature film from 2023 "Poor Things," by Yorgos Lanthimos.   Written & produced by Andy Slack Performed by Andy Slack & Ethan Ireland Sound design & editing by Andy Slack Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio      

Collected here in one convenient place is the Omnibus edition of our Conclave No. 17, wherein The Cinemania Society returns to the Mall to find all has changed, and then proceeds to scrutinize the 1990 Roger Corman film "Frankenstein Unbound." Hosted by Andy Slack Editing and sound design by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemi...

Profligator Daniel presents this epic-length Profile in Cinemania on the mother of science-fiction, Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley. Mary Shelley is best known for her novel "Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus," as well as her feminism and her relationships with Regency-era English poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Ordinarily a PIC on an author would not be our bailiwick, but her best-kno...

The Cinemania Society concludes its scrutiny of the 1990 film "Frankenstein Unbound" and terminates its initial skirmish versus their nefarious duplicates.   Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland Art by Andy Slack Comics This audio play is a work of parody and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of fact.

Professor Andrea presents a Profile in Cinemania on a scion of one of Hollywood's most illustrious acting dynasties, Bridget Fonda.   Written and performed by Andrea Palladino & Daniel Scribner Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Tracks used: "Laguna" and "Lost Cassette" Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics   LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody and should not be construed as making statem...

While The Cinemania Society begins its campaign of strongly-worded missives directed at their doppelgängers, it also continues its scrutiny of the 1990 film "Frankenstein Unbound," Roger Corman's final directorial oeuvre starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, and Bridget Fonda.   Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland Art by Andy Slack Comics This audio play is...

Our first Season 3 Profile in Cinemania is on the pride of Puerto Rico, Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay, better known as Raul Julia. Best known to Millennials as the cinematic representation of either The Addams Family's Gomez Addams or Street Fighter's M. Bison, Raul Julia's acting career saw him on stage and screens big and small.    Written and performed by Andy Slack Production and Sound De...

Finally, the wait is over -- NEW EPISODE AHOY! Season 3 kicks off when The Cinemania Society returns to find that that the only constant in the universe is indeed change and in their attempt to return home, they learn that one can never go home again. Their reaction is, predictably, to hold a Conclave to get a handle on it. Verifier Andy chooses to scrutinize the 1990 film "Frankenstein Unbound,"...

In this prelude to Season 3, the Cinemania High Council faces an unexpected reckoning...   Written by Daniel Scribner Production & Sound Design by Andy Slack Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Sound FX and incidental music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

Before we get on with Season 3, we're taking a final dip into the Memory Hole for one of our better Profiles in Cinemania, this time on everyone's favorite typecast space wizard. New material drops next week!   Written by Ethan Ireland, Andy Slack, and Andrea Palladino Performed by Ethan Ireland Production and sound design by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Caricature art by A...

Since it pains us that so much of our Season 1 has been memory-holed, we thought you folks would enjoy this Profile we did on the late (late late late late) Sir John Hurt.   Hang in there, new material is coming! Big things are afoot!   (You'll find this profile has a lot to do with the pending 1st Conclave of Season 3)   Written by Ethan Ireland Performed by Alessa Luz Martinez as Andre Martinez...

So, so much of our early work has disappeared from the internet. If you're GenX or a Millennial, and you grew up with home video, it's a good chance you heard music performed by Vangelis, master of synthesized scores. Here's our memorial take on the guy. Hang in there, new stuff is coming. Written by Ethan Ireland & Andy Slack Performed by Andre Luc Martinez & Zacharia Berks Mixed & Ma...

This is the last of our S1 re-runs, which means we're getting toward the end of our S2-S3 hiatus folks. Just in case you didn't already know, we're re-running all the S1 Conclaves during our hiatus because a few uncouth podcast aggregators refuse to make our back episodes available. In this, the final episode of Season 1, Cinquisitor Ethan holds a Conclave examining Ralph Bakshi's 1977 ALLEGEDLY d...

Hi! It's Atus. Hi Atus! Get it? Yeah, okay. Dad joke over. You probably know the drill by now, but just in case you don't we're re-running all the S1 Conclaves during our S2-S3 hiatus because CERTAIN podcast aggregators won't make our back episodes available. In this one, Auntie Hope joins us in earnest and forces us all to scrutinize Ridley Scott's brother Tony's directorial debut, the lesbian va...

Hiatus continues. Not for much longer, though. Just long enough to catch people up on our old material so they can understand the full flower of the story we're trying to tell since Big Streaming wanted to deny you all. Here's Conclave #6, featuring Professor Andrea taking us on a journey through time and space as we explore her favorite fantasy film, 1981's "Time Bandits" -- otherwise known as "t...

Guess what? Chicken butt! ...and our hiatus continues. We're re-running the complete set of Conclaves from Season 1, since SOMEONE at Spotify and other podcast aggregators decided to un-list our first season. Here's Conclave #5, wherein Daniel Scribner takes us on a journey through John Carpenter's tribute to both Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft, 1994's "In the Mouth of Madness."    Music by Karl...

Yep, we're still on hiatus. Good new stuff is coming, don't worry. Just relax and enjoy the complete run of Conclaves from Season 1, since Spotify and other podcast aggregators haven't been listing our first season. To that end, here's Conclave #4, featuring Alessa Luz Martinez playing André Luc Martinez, when we took a deep dive into the landmark 1956 sci-fi epic, "Forbidden Planet." This film wa...

We're still on hiatus, which means we're keeping our promise to re-post the complete run of Conclaves from Season 1, since they haven't been appearing on many major podcast aggregators. Anyhow, here's Conclave #3, where Verifier Andy took us on a deep dive into the 1978 film "The Shout," Jerzy Skolimowski's *exceedingly* British psychosexual drama based on Robert Graves' short story of the same na...

Continuing our post Season 2 hiatus, we're bringing you our complete run of Conclaves from Season 1, since they don't appear on a lot of major podcast aggregation services. Here's Conclave #2, held to scrutinize the Japanese Punk Zombie film from 2000, "WILD ZERO!"   Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio 

It has been brought to our attention that our *entire* Season 1 run of episodes doesn't appear on a lot of different podcast aggregators. Well! We're going to fix that! Since we're on hiatus after Season 2 (Season 3 is coming, folks, don't worry!), let's get everyone caught up on Season 1, shall we?   Here, for your listenting pleasure, is the Compleat Naked Lunch.    Music by Karl Casey at White...

Ever wonder how we got where we are? Recent events have caused Cinquisitor Ethan to reflect upon how we may have gotten there in a Field Report that examines one of the vilest sources of CINEMANIA yet encountered, Stanley Kubrick's 1972 film "A Clockwork Orange."  Trigger warning: rape, abuse, fascism, psychological manipulation   Written and performed by Ethan Ireland Audio engineering, sound des...