The Cult Crypt

THE CULT CRYPT HAS RETURNED!!!

tHe bEast is in fulL Possession of your lovely host, Micah Carlsen, escaping the basement crypt of WNYU to give you Uncensored, Unregulated, Cool as hell Pods!

So, to welcome us back, we interviewed special guest Reese Villella, we're coming back to the Crypt with a bang! Tune in to not only listen to use talk about Repo! but discussion on musical theater, terrible wigs, hubris and one of the...

Mic got locked out of his Mausoleum and he recorded with his good friend Leilani Patao, host of Let's Get Lei'd and the New Afternoon Show on Wednesdays, to talk about one of The Scream Queens of the 1980s, Barbara Crampton!

Tune in for discussion of Jakob's Wife (2021), the horror genre as a whole, and the wonders of exploring liberation through high-concept horror, while we give an overview of Barbara Crampton&#...

Turn back the clock Cultists! We're taking you back to 2013, to talk about not only one of the finest action films to come out in the 2010s but one of Guillermo del Torro's most fun and exciting films. Micah and dear friend Kaya Trefz cover Pacific Rim (2013)! Tune in for a talk on kaiju groupie scientists, mind-melding, and the power of love (as shown through big robots!)

Opening Song- Pacific Rim Theme by L'Orche...

Are you eating well, Cultists? Allow the Cult to clean your palette with Mic's absolute favorite TV drama, NBC's Hannibal (2013-2015).

Old friend Wiley June returns to the Mauseluem to share his first watch of Bryan Fuller's sensational show. Tune in to listen to talks of purple prose, confounding killers of the week, and, of course, some real high-class tastes. The first piece of high art to touch our depths! (Th...

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Welcome back to the Final Five of the Cult Crypt! Today, Mic and Roan Lucas (@casual.ron on insta) share all the good good bits of WayneRadioTV or RadioTVSolutions!

Tune in to hear bits on being trapped, Sentient AI, and what theater looks like on a digital stage. (U M4Y 4LS0 H34R FR0M L1L 0L' M3 ;3C)

Opening Track: There...

Cultist! We are in the final stretch, the FINAL FIVE EPISODES with WNYU start now with a full band review of Glass Beach!

Micah and Alfie Massey talk about music old and brand new. Fresh off the release of plastic death, Glass Beach has been on Mic's playlists since high school when they were casio dad. So we ask you to listen to some indie music, revel in the catharsis, and then sit and talk with us about Glass Beach!

Openin...

Hello Cultists!

Happy Halloween!!! As we approach this most Hallowed of Holidays- the cult has decided to unleash the Cult Conisseur onto the world, and Micah has used his freedom to gather interviews and conduct a forum talking about the most famous cult musical of all time- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)!!!

Thank you so much to Kam Kampton (he/him), Zoe Gray (they/he/she), Sofi Lopez Arredondo (they/them), Katie ...

Happy Mabon Cultists! The Autumn season is in full swing and the cult is celebrating with a new season of the Cult Crypt!

\We start out the Autumn with a Cult Classic of literature- Good Omens- The Nice and Accurate Predictions of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

Micah, your Cult Conisseur, and his guest, Max Rosenblum, talk Good, Evil and being human while discussing both the 1990s novel and both seasons of the Amazon Prime series- keep...

Cultists, it's the summer. And the one thing this season does best is self-indulgence. So for NYC Pride and in the spirit of pure camp and hedonism- Micah, your Cult Conisour, will be chatting with his director and bestie Sofi Lopez Arredondo! They chat on the recently staged production of Sydney Green's The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)- staged at The Tank between June 17th and 18th, as part of Tank's Pride Fest. They talk camp, deve...

On the Spring finale, Micah and Vibhu are going over two big things: one, the Adult Swim Infomercial This House Has People In It (2016), and the collective of artists who made it Wham City Productions! Along the way, they talk about security footage, discomfort, and horror comedy. Check out the short on Youtube or Max (under Infomercials) and look up the over 2 hours of bonus content on Youtube for some all-American family discomf...

On a Cult Crypt first (!), Micah your Cult Conisseour is reviewing a listener-suggested film- The 1980s gay thriller Cruising (William Friedkin). Get ready for a chat on queer discourse, Al Pacino, perception, and our reckoning with unpopular, cult media.

Content Warning:

While the audio doesn't go into detail, this film contains graphic depictions of hate crimes, assault, murder, and coerced sex. The film isn't an ...

Welcome Cultists to our first deep dive into the wide world of internet cult media. Micah, you connoisseur and his DM Wiley June are going over the Monument Mythos- an analog horror series that asks the question- What if Statues were bad and housed eldritch beings!

Check out the still running show and real-time developments of Season 3 happening at MISTERMANTICORE on Youtube- to view Alex Kansas' the Monument Mythos a...