Geoff Shullenberger returns to Psyop Cinema, this time discussing the novels of Dan Brown and their trilogy of film adaptations (the subject of Geoff’s recent essay for American Affairs). He and Thomas talk about the strange prescience of Brown’s novels, in his early work’s treatment of the deep state, surveillance, and encryption and his later…
Continuing their series on Jared Leto, Thomas and Brett cover the 2002 film Highway, showing how it leverages 90s nihilism into the all-out pornographization of culture in the 2000s. They analyze the rock star archetype, why it’s at the center of Leto’s career, and the clumsy cultural engineering agenda driving it. Finally, Brett proves that…
Thomas talks with James Ellis, host of the Hermitix podcast. They discuss their experiences being immersed in the philosophy of Nick Land, how they both eventually returned to Christianity, and the differing conceptions of the limits of the human in the accelerationist and Christian worldviews. James explains the dangers of modern nihilism and relativism, the…
Psyop Cinema returns to William Ramsey Investigates, to discuss A Scanner Darkly, the Richard Linklater adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel. This bleak film gives the guys the chance to talk about the drug war psyop, how surveillance and intelligence culture erode identity, and some reservations about Linklater’s work. As for PKD, unlike many…
Psyop Cinema recently appeared on the Wake the Dead podcast to talk with Sean McCann about the Joker. In addition to further analysis of the 2019 film, discussion topics include trauma based mind control, Satanic ritual abuse, Alan Moore, and weaponized nihilism.
Brett and Thomas join Emmet Penney on the ex.haust podcast to discuss the school shooting themed found footage film The Dirties. They discuss pop culture obsession, the figure of the mass shooter, and the relevance of this film to the content of Psyop Cinema’s ongoing Joker series. Find more of Emmet’s content here: https://exhaust.fireside.fm/https://twitter.com/nukebarbarian
Thomas speaks with Theodore, a former member of the Atomwaffen Division, an infamous neo-Nazi paramilitary organization. Theodore describes how AWD’s ideology underwent a dramatic shift, with the group’s National Socialist extremism being supplanted by an even more sinister and perverse anti-human Satanism, associated with the Tempel ov Blood, a nexion of the Order of Nine…
An unlocked episode of Brett’s Monarch series, with some new commentary from Thomas on the strange career of Anya Taylor-Joy. Brett reveals the massive number of Monarch mind control tropes showcased in the 2021 Edgar Wright psychological horror film and shows how it portrays initiation into the culture-creation industry. Thomas then surveys many of Taylor-Joy’s…
Thomas and Brett survey the highly suspicious career of Jared Leto, focusing on his role as frontman of Thirty Seconds to Mars. Having played both the Joker and Mark David Chapman, the cascade of unnerving details about Leto comes as no surprise. The guys talk about his odd upbringing, how he turned his fans into…
A Psyop Cinema Halloween special, combining three of Thomas’ Patreon bonus episodes from last year. 2021’s Psy-Optober bonus series analyzed The Cabin in the Woods, The Guest, and John Dies at the End. The Cabin in the Woods provides a near perfect metaphor for cultural engineering while also seeking to trap its audience inside a…
Thomas and Brett’s appearance on recurring Psyop Cinema guest Geoff Shullenberger’s Outsider Theory podcast, discussing their overall approach to cultural engineering, the Hollywood psyop, and low-intensity MKUltra. The conversation covers the ideological history of conspiracy theory, the overlap between academic theory and cultural engineering analysis, CIA involvement in Hollywood, and much more.