Cult Films About Cults. Here at The Playlist, where we pray to our benign Leader every time we hit “publish,” abstain from all sexual activity, grow our own vegetables and pause in our tasks thrice daily to face due East and chant our mantra “Kurosawa, Kurosawa, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Ommm,” we’d obviously know better than to get ourselves caught up in any sort of cult. But the lure that can be exerted over weaker souls than our own perfected ones has led to some fascinating, often chilling films, whether set within the confines of the sect or dealing with the process of deprogramming and reinsertion into ordinary society. The latter is the background for this month’s release of “Faults,” from debut feature director Riley Stearns (review here) and which stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a cult member whose parents hire a has- been expert played by Leland Orser to un- brainwash her during a week in a bland hotel room.“Faults” has many different tones and textures and is overall perhaps best described as black comedy/drama hybrid, but the subject matter has lent itself to many genres over the years, from melodrama to coming- of- age tale to thriller to psychodrama to most frequently horror. Watch Iris (2015) Online. A lot of name- brand auteurs have gotten in on the game, but seeing as we’ve written about those examples a great deal already (“Eyes Wide Shut,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Master,” “The Village,” “The Ninth Gate” and so on) we thought we’d dedicate this feature to a few more obscure picks. So take the phone off the hook, sever all ties with your families (who don’t really love you anyway, not like we do) and abandon yourself to our selection of 1. Retrospectively and despite coming a little after the giallo explosion of the early ’7.

Goblin who made it onto our list of Best Horror Scores of all time for this and Argento’s “Tenebre.” The film concerns an American ballerina (Jessica Harper) who transfers to a sinister German Dance Academy covertly run by a satanic coven of witches, including “Dark Shadows” star Joan Bennett. The mish- mash of languages and accents from the English, American, German and Italian cast didn’t matter much as the whole thing was post- dubbed anyway, which adds to the film’s uncanny cronkiness today. But once you become attuned to the garish unsubtlety of Argento’s work, “Suspiria” is undeniably creepy and evocative, tuning in to burgeoning female sexuailty as a metaphor for a quasi- mystical transformation process that is unknowable but also oddly beautiful without ever trying to transcend its exploitation / b- movie basis. That was a job for subsequent admirers and imitators, such as Darren Aronofsky, whose Oscar- winning “Black Swan” owes “Suspiria” a heavy debt.“Sound Of My Voice” (2. One of the most striking and original low- budget American directorial debuts of the last few years, “Sound Of My Voice” is a puzzle box of a movie that never got the audience it deserved in theaters, but appropriately gains more and more followers with each passing year since release. The first feature from director Zal Batmanglij, who co- wrote with star Brit Marling, sees a young couple (Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius) attempting to infiltrate a mysterious group led by Maggie (Marling), a charismatic women who claims to be from a post- apocalyptic 2. The film’s a true genre- bender, flitting between thriller, sci- fi, Lynchian mindbender and a genuinely incisive examination into the cult of personality: Denham’s Peter begins as a skeptic, but we see his own identity subtly erased as he falls increasingly under Maggie’s spell (and you can see why —Marling is extraordinary, slightly and deliberately off- kilter with the rest of the film around her).

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Her parents were utterly middle class, yet for 25 years they allowed this girl to be abused by a secretive and bizarre cult. Now, free of its clutches, she reveals.

It doesn’t entirely satisfy as a whole: at less than ninety minutes, it’s too lean to substantively dig into everything that it has on its mind. In fact, the film was meant to be the first of a trilogy, marking it one of the first Sundance films to fall victim to franchise syndrome.

But it’s still a hypnotic, beautifully executed piece of world- building, and we’re very excited to see what Marling and Batmanglij come up with for their new Netflix series next year. It’s a film destined for further reevaluation for its cherishable mid- 7. Split Image,” Peter Fonda portrays a man on the run from a cult here (.

On vacation, he and his friend played by Warren Oates stumble across a satanic ritual sacrifice and flee the pursuing cult across the Texas backwoods with their hysterical liabilities of wives (played by Lara Parker and “M. A. S. H“. It’s all pretty loosely cobbled together: the smaller characters like the monumentally unhelpful sheriff’s department and the gurning, twangy- voiced locals are all straight out of central casting, and each scene plays like a rip- off of something else rather than part of a cohesive whole, but even with stereotypes and cliches abounding, it’s a blast. Fonda gets to ride a motorbike again, plus the couples’ RV proves remarkably resilient during the many excellent “Duel“- like chase sequences, building to a batshit highway finale that’s actually a terrific smash- ’em- up of vehicular mayhem before an abrupt and perfectly divisive ending.“Martha Marcy May Marlene” (2. Doing a better job than maybe any other film here with respect to putting the viewer inside the crumbling mind of a cult escapee struggling to come to grips with the formlessness and chaos of the world outside the group, this startlingly austere paranoia drama was not solely the breakout vehicle for director Sean Durkin and for Elizabeth Olsen. It also showed an entirely new side to the brilliant John Hawkes, who spins his usual characterful casting as a sad sack loser entirely on its head to become one of the most memorably chilling yet believably charismatic cult leaders of the many on this list. Dealing in itchy unease, tonal ambiguity and hopping around in time in a deliberately disorienting manner, the real crux of the film is identity confusion, evoked brilliantly by the willfully confusing title, and rarely has the push- pull attraction- repulsion of resigning all responsibility for yourself to the point of complete self- erasure been so empathetically summoned.

Also featuring less showy but tremendously solid performances from Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy as Martha’s sister and brother- in- law who become increasingly disturbed by the troubled, secretive Martha’s behavior, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” is a brilliantly evocative, insightful and economical story told with the kind of confidence and adeptness with ambiguity that belies the director’s neophyte status —it feels nothing like a first film. For all this and more it earned its spot on our 5. Best Films of the Decade list.“The Devils” (1. Cults are often a touchy subject (just ask anyone who’s been tweeting about Scientology documentary “Going Clear”), but only “The Devils” can lay claim of the films on this list to genuinely being one of the most controversial films ever made, thanks to its mix of explicit sex and violence and religious imagery. Directed by the ever- provocative Ken Russell (based loosely on Aldous Huxley’s “The Devils Of Loudon,” itself based on real events, as an opening legend reminds us), it’s a period piece set in France in the 1.

Father Grandier (an astonishing Oliver Reed), who holds sway over the people of Loudon with his fierce charisma and fiercer sexuality. But it’s the latter that proves his undoing when after he secretly marries Madeleine (Gemma Jones), hunchbacked nun Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave) in a fit of lustful jealous accuses him of demonically possessing her and the other nuns. Night School Documentary (2017) Movie Dvd Quality.

Bringing a sort of psychedelic rock swagger to 1. Century France, Russell’s wildly overblown, deliberately hysterical tale (featuring all- time pantheon sets by Derek Jarman) was heavily censored in both the U.