The Wicker Man and Kill List come to mind if cults count.

No joke. I’ve seen Rosemary’s Baby many times since my teens. For some reason it took me awhile to really recognize Guy’s complete lack of morality. I just considered him hapless, over his head in life. I also wondered why it took so little time to recruit him into the coven’s scheme and chalked it up to Roman’s…

I’d say the biggest reason the Thuggees are so offensive is because they’re shown to literally be empowered by an actual Hindu deity. It’s one thing to suggest that some small group of cultists are into bad shit; it’s another to imply that they are doing so with the explicit blessing of a major world religion’s…

Whatever that group was that Mademoiselle was in charge of, in Martyrs.

I wouldn’t consider any of them truly scary, but The X-Files built some of their best episodes around secret societies hiding in plain view. The devil-worshipping teachers in Die Hand Der Verletzt, the chicken factory cannibals in Our Town, the Luke Wilson vampires in Bad Blood. Heck, even The Syndicate was cool…

Hereditary *SPOILERS* ahead mateys!

The Trystero in “The Crying of Lot 49”, easily. Whether or not they actually exist.

A recent rewatch of Eyes Wide Shut made me realize how legitimately creepy that cult can, at times, be. Mostly when we’re first introduced to them. The masks, the rituals, the music. It loses some of the mystique once context comes, but yeesh, it’s a straight-up horror movie for a while.

Right? I feel like we need a bracket in the future. Four suggested categories:
- Basics (cheerios, life, frosted flakes, honey smacks, pops, golden grahams)
- Chocolates (cocoa puffs, cocoa krispies, count chocula, cocoa pebbles)
- Froots (froot loops, fruity pebbles, frankenberry, other atrocities)
- Wildcards (Lucky…

Yeah, not every book designer is Chip Kidd, that’s for sure.  You’re right, though - book does sound good.

Man, the trend of blocky, uniform, sans-serif text over a a busy, colorful pattern just chugs right along, don’t it?

For the rest of the century, conservatives have their playbook and it’s fucking Gamergate.

Right? I’m all for acknowledging history and context but using maybe possible, unknown prior abuse as some sort of explanation only hurts victims.

Do you really need me to tell you how absolutely heinous and monstrous child pornography is? You saw the evidence with your very eyes. You saw his browser history. It didn’t just materialize out of nowhere!

If your father has child pornography on his computer, he has participated in child abuse whether or not he himself has assaulted a child. Please stop burying your head in the sand about this.

The moment you found that folder on your father’s laptop was the moment you should’ve called the fucking cops.

It doesn’t matter what the rest of this guy’s personality was like. Do you think you’d clock the prison camp workers who are letting immigrant children be chained to their beds naked, get covered in lice, and fall prey to human traffickers, as “monstrous” if you met them on the street? Of course not; they’d likely be…

Thank you so much for this. I can’t begin to fathom what your family must be going through lately, but I genuinely believe that no other course of action you could have taken would have produced preferable long-term outcomes, and I wish you all peace and healing. Your story of doing the difficult but correct thing is…

The idea that child molesters were all molested themselves is a corrosive and false idea that discourages victims from telling anyone what happened to them, lest they be branded a future pedophile for life.

As someone (male) who was molested from the age of ~10 to ~13, thank you for writing this. It’s next to impossible for children to know that what’s happening isn’t right, especially when it comes from an authority figure, and I’m very glad you didn’t shrug it off.