Sub-Cult — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The 1980 Yuletide Horror Film Christmas Evil is John Water's Favorite Christmas Movie for a Reason: It's Great!

Fiona Apple’s dad gives an unforgettable performance as a Christmas-crazed killer in Christmas Evil, John Waters’ favorite Christmas movie.

Sub-CultNathan RabinNovember 29, 2023Brandon Maggart, Silent Night

If You Loved Barbie's Semi-Musical, Estrogen-Powered Weirdness You'll Probably Dig 2021's Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar As Well

Instead of going to the Gathering of the Juggalos, Insane Clown Posse’s yearly festival of arts and culture I took a little mind vacation to Vista Del Mar with some agreeable gals by the name of Barb and Star.

Sub-CultNathan RabinAugust 1, 2023Kristin Wiig, Annie Mumalo, Jamie Dornan, cult, comedy, Morgan Freeman, Vanessa Bayer, Sub-Cult

2004's Seed of Chucky Illustrates What Makes the Child's Play Franchise So Wild and Relevant

By the fifth film in the original series, the Child’s Play franchise had gotten ridiculously silly in a most delightful, meta kind of way.

Sub-CultNathan RabinOctober 23, 2022Brad Dourif, horror, sequel, Scream, Jennifer Tilly

The Obsessive Brilliance of Saturday Morning All Star Hits!

Uh, subs?

Lukewarm Takes, Sub-CultNathan RabinJanuary 10, 2022Kyle Mooney, Lorne Michaels

Sub-Cult #13 Disney's Weird and Wonderful The Three Caballeros is Funny, Adventurous, Musical, Wild and Unrelentingly Horny

Donald Duck is down to fuck in the shockingly horny 1944 animated masterpiece The Three Caballeros.

Wild Disney Animation, Sub-CultNathan RabinJuly 8, 2021Donald Duck, Disney, horny

Sub-Cult 2.0 #12 Clifford (1994)

Charles Grodin Month comes to an end with a fond look back at Clifford, a notorious flop that cast Martin Short as a ten year old boy and Grodin as his apoplectic uncle that went on to find a dedicated cult thanks largely to podcaster Tom Scharpling.

Sub-Cult 2.0 #11 Welcome To Me (2014)

Movies about television month kicks off with a fond look back at the trippy Kristin Wiig vehicle Welcome To Me, a surreal character study about a mentally ill woman who wins the lottery and uses the winnings to live out her Oprah Winfrey fantasies.

Sub-Cult 2.0 # 10 Freebie and the Bean (1974)

Before 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon or Beverly Hills Cop there was Alan Arkin and James Caan in Richard Rush’s wildly influential 1974 mismatched buddy cop cult classic Freebie and the Bean, a weirdly forgotten blockbuster as problematic as it is entertaining.

Sub-Cult, Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinMay 26, 2020Alan Arkin, James Caan, Richard Rush, New Hollywood, Film

Exploiting the Archives, 4/20 edition: Sub-Cult 2.0 #1 Smiley Face (2007)

Here at Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place, it’s 420 every day!

Sub-CultNathan RabinApril 20, 2020Anna Faris, John Krasinski, Marijuana, stoner movies, Exploiting the Archives, Film

Sub-Cult 2.0 #9 Mars Attacks! (1996)

There has, paradoxically, never been a better time to laugh at the idiot apocalypse of Mars Attacks! than now, when the end seems so tantalizingly, horrifyingly near.

Sub-Cult, Danny DeVito MonthNathan RabinMarch 19, 2020Tim Burton, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Film