In Hereditary director Ari Aster’s latest film Midsommar, a vacationing couple find themselves transported to a…
What do you do when not facing mutant marvels and battling in wild mental planescapes in Legion? If you’re Dan Stevens,…
Shoko Asahara—the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult behind the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo’s subway that…
The Rajneesshee cult started building their utopian city of the future in rural Oregon during the early 1980s. And…
American Horror Story’s latest venture is Cult, looking at what happens when an enigmatic personality goes a step too…
We’ve looked at a number of different cults and cult leaders here at Paleofuture, and they usually have pretty hefty…
In September of 1984, at least 751 people got violently sick in The Dalles, Oregon. At first, no one in the town could…
We’ve been eagerly following the rise of Satanic TV, thanks to new shows like Lucifer and Damien. But it turns out…
I think Rob Rhinehart is trying to turn himself into some sort of creepy nerd messiah. Today he posted a giant essay to…
Pinterest—the mason jar lobby’s most effective propaganda apparatus—is an aggressively wholesome social platform. It’s…
The Blackburn Cult, also known by the far more mystically delicious moniker “Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the…
Paul Morantz knew Synanon would try to kill him. He just didn’t know how or when.
Every month, the bills get paid on time. The emails get answered, and any orders filled. Which, for HeavensGate.com, is…
Supreme court judges in the UK have ruled that Scientology is a "place of meeting for religious worship." Louisa Hodkin …
In the past, we've examined some hilarious forms of body armor for both human and hound.But in terms of sheer…
This week sees the big-screen debut of Sound of My Voice, the indie sensation centered around a mysterious cult leader…
What if you were introduced to a spiritual guru who claimed to have traveled back in time from the year 2054? What…
This is the 1980s toe-tapper "Cathy Don't Go" (lyrics and en Español), an earworm New Wave number that almost…
Chances are you're familiar with such Troma Entertainment flicks as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. Kitschy…
The besieged Mexican government has a new tool in the info war against drug cartels: animated, online propaganda…
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