Conclave 3 Omnibus: The Compleat ’The Shout’

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The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.

In our third conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into Jerzy Skolimowski's psychosexual drama from 1978, "The Shout." We conclude by interviewing The Trash Shaman, a real-life student of the occult who has had experiences with people escaping cults, and charismatic con-men of the type Alan Bates portrays in the film.

In this episode:

• Bangin' gongs and getttin' it on
• An insane asylum cricket match
• Criminal underuse of Tim Curry
• Criminal overuse of peacocks  
• A true-but-not-true story-within-a-story
• Thirsty for Carol Drinkwater
• Prog Rock John Hurt
• 1970s ASMR Videos
• Bicycle sabotage
• Shoe-buckle magic
• A home-invasion masochist
• Why you should never trust a man who drinks with both hands  
• Survivor stories from the Great Migraine Epidemic of the 1970s
• Hacking a Courtesy Feedback Loop
• David Lynch's favorite actor
• Extreme dramatic physicality and intense eye contact
• Shoe-based stone exorcisms
• An impromptu Monty Python sketch
• John Broadbent in nothing but a jockstrap and cow dung
• Yet another endorsement for Luxury Gay Space Communism
• Andy is confounded and later wounded sexually
• Zacharia is baffled and irritated  
• Daniel is intrigued and annoyed
• Andre revels in weirdness
• The Dickens Syndrome 
• Ethan enjoys it way, way too much and thinks way, way too deeply
• An analysis of a Classic Lovecraft Trope
• Psychological domination and gaslighting (in the movie!)
• Food for people's thinky brain-meats
• We meet the Trash Shaman
• Fiction is compared with lived experience  
• The Four Phases of Charismatic Con-Men
• Light Shamanism versus Dark Shamanism
• How empathy can get weaponized
• The Amygdala: the 500lb Gorilla
• The Prefrontal Cortex: the 98lb weakling
• Hijacking the placebo effect
• Occultism and psychology 
• Some words of warning

FEATURING:

Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)

Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.

Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting

Zacharia Berks

…and Special Guest "The Trash Shaman." https://trashaman.blogspot.com/?m=1

Trigger warnings include descriptions of violence, psychological abuse, cultic abuse, misogyny, rape, racism, white saviorism, cultural relativism, bad representations of mental illness, body horror.

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.