Matinee of the Living Dead

Sixty years of sorcerous entrainment have ravaged the hearts, minds and bodies of the American populace. It's been a long march, one that is now reaching its destination. 

Here's another example of where it all began...

Dark City: The Ante/Anti-Matrix

Like the The Matrix a year later, writer/director Alex Proyas’ Dark City offers up his take on Neo-Gnostic savior mythology, but shuns the Wachowskis’ intersectionalist/ queer-theory approach in favor of the fertility symbolism of the ancient Mystery cults.

Atlantis and the Villa of the (AstroGnostic) Mysteries

 

Seeing that I briefly touched on 1985's hit film Cocoon during the Atlantis livestream, I thought now's the perfect time to take a, um, deep dive into some of the cleverly-embedded esoteric symbolism in the film.

Aliens Invade Laurel Canyon

I recently posted an audio podcast of my talk on Dave McGowan’s Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon over at the SSI. That raised the issue of Wavelength, a 1983 film that seems like a strange kind of companion piece to the book.

Winona, Interrupted: Little Girl Lost

Or, "Open Season on Kids in the Predators' Paradise of Post-Hippie California"...

What Did They Do to the Ultimate 90s It Girl?

Winona Ryder was THE Nineties It Girl. She ruled the hearts and minds of GenXers across the world (guilty) - and dated a string of A-list rock and movie stars - only to fall from grace in the hardest way at the dawn of the new millennium.

Everything New is Old Again

  

The Stranger Things Quadragennial wraps up with a specially-curated playlist of songs hitting the airwaves in November of 1983.

Check out a special sampling of music videos here.

And the movies of the month that broke reality.

 

And if you're new to all this, be sure to read up on how 1983 was the year that broke reality. I don't know how or why the Duffer Brothers chose that year, but believe me - they chose well.

Something came through the veil in 1983, and we're just now beginning to grasp the enormity of it. Much of what is now being reaped - on a worldwide scale - was first sown forty years ago.

Syncher Things: Must Be a Clash, There's No Alternative

There’s a general consensus that World War One and World War Two weren’t really different wars, but one long war with a twenty-one year armistice. 

Stranger Things Quadragennial: The Music that Broke Reality

 

The early Eighties really were as magical and awesome as you’ve been led to believe, even if the seeds of our future heartaches were being planted in the dark. Me, I was 17 in November of 1983, and it’s remained a lost mystical land I like to escape to when the stars are just right ever since. 

Mulholland Drive, 911 and... Barbenheimer?

Maybe the simplest description I can offer of Synchromysticism is "the bleed-over of dream logic into consensus reality." The keys to this process are myth, symbol and co-incidence. It's a process that we may well need to help accelerate as the old Reality comes unglued.

SecretSun DogDay ReRun: The Year that Broke Reality

 

That helmet looks vaguely Kirbyesque

1983 hovers like a wraith over all of my work and I've never been quite sure why. 

Entering the Kubrickon

Here's the second half of my talk with Jasun Horsley on his new book, The Kubrickon: The Cult of Kubrick, Attention Capture, and the Inception of AI.

Forty Years in the Wilderness of the Unreal

They say History repeats, first as tragedy and then as farce. But how exactly does that work when Reality itself is irreparably broken?

Our Gods Wore Spandex: Last Supper for Superheroes

Our Gods Wear Spandex hit the shelves fifteen years ago this month and prophesied the coming rise of the superheroes, back before the Spandex Age of Cinema took off with the releases of Iron Man and Dark Knight. The age which is now most definitely drawing to a close.

WatchTober: Talking Vril, Watcher Cults & Pulp Magic on Rune Soup

Our Gordon and I planned a while back to do a show on the pulp heroes and the occult, using the unjustly-obscure 1994 film version of The Shadow as a starting point.  

Stranger Things 4 Livestream

Depressed the holiday's over? Don't be: we'll be capping off the long weekend tonight (July 4th) at 10 PM ET with a deep dive into the unspoken subtexts of Stranger Things 4...

Stranger Things Deep Dive Sizzle Reel

We took a very deep dive on Stranger Things and the real-life horrors lurking behind it during a Secret Sun Institute livestream last night. There's more to come, because to understand where we are today, we need to understand how it all began. 

Stranger Things Deep Dive Livestream

Come join us for an epic deep dive on the disturbing history (and unsettling future) behind the Stranger Things phenomenon. There's a lot more going on with this series besides monsters, mind control and Eighties nostalgia.

Sirens, Shimmers and Even Stranger Things

She turned thirteen on...

I'm still in the middle of my Stranger Things 4 watch but I can say definitively that it's leagues above the wretched third season, wherein the writers tried to repurpose the franchise as a comedy and failed like very few things have failed in all of human history. 

Sorry, Eternals. The Spell's Already Been Broken.

 

I haven't seen the Eternals movie yet, meaning I haven't yet seen the movie coming out today called Eternals. But I've seen The Eternals onscreen time and time and time again, and so have you.