Meet The Fellowship of the Lens'd Palm
A list of the members of our Conclave.
The Cinemania Society Podcast
Herein are chronicled the judgements of this not-so-secret society as its members scrutinize, criticize, analyze, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema history.
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Episodes
Wednesday Aug 06, 2025
Wednesday Aug 06, 2025
Cinquisitor Ethan presents a Profile in Cinemania on Chicago's own Stuart Gordon, transgressive counterculture theater director and all-time best-ever H.P. Lovecraft filmmaker. Listen and celebrate the life of a man who did things with more heart than just about anyone else in showbiz, and therefore created films that are all dire sources of CINEMANIA.
Special thanks to Lee Percy and Liesel Hanson for the generous contributions to the research on this profile.
This is a work of parody / satire and should not be construed as making actual statements or allegations of fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated.
Caricature art by Andy Slack ComicsMusic by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "Calling You," "Corrosive," and "Aura."
Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
H.P. Lovecraft rolls in his grave as the Society, Cinquisitor Ethan in the lead, concludes its Conclave examining "From Beyond," a surprisingly sex-drenched mind-melter of a movie from the mid-80's.
Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack
Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound courtesy of White Bat Audio
Art & graphic design by Andy Slack Comics
The Cinemania Society is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents appearing in this audioplay are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or living dead; or actual events is purely coincidental and/or part of a work of parody that should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Professor Andrea presents a Profile in Cinemania exploring the remarkable career of actress and producer Barbara Crampton. Call her talented, call her relentless, call her multi-dimensional, call her a decent human being -- but whatever you do, don't call her a "scream queen."
Researched, written, and performed by Andrea Palladino
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks Used: "Dead by Dawn" and "Vortex Queen."
Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Cinquisitor Ethan starts to show some decline in mental health as he leads the Society through their examination of Stuart Gordon & Brian Yuzna's quintessential flesh-fest from 1986, "From Beyond," an '80s horror adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's story of the same name.
Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack
Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound courtesy of White Bat Audio
Art & graphic design by Andy Slack Comics
The Cinemania Society is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents appearing in this audioplay are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or living dead; or actual events is purely coincidental and/or part of a work of parody that should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
Verifier Andy presents a Profile in Cinemania on Cinemania Patient Zero: H.P. Lovecraft, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. Despite a rabid fear of everything, and incomprehensible degree of bigotry, he still managed to end up being one of the primary architects of the past century of science-fiction and horror.
Written and performed by Andy Slack
Sound design & editing by Andy Slack
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
LEGAL NOTICE: This constitutes a work of parody and/or satire, and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
As the Society spies on their possibly sinister but definitely mysterious doppelgangers, Cinquisitor Ethan gets the idea to hold a Conclave examining Stuart Gordon's 1986 horror-comedy-horror film "From Beyond," perhaps the single most definitive adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story yet made. Definitely the stickiest, at any rate. Listen as hijinks ensue.
Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack
Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound courtesy of White Bat Audio
Art & graphic design by Andy Slack Comics
The Cinemania Society is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents appearing in this audioplay are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or living dead; or actual events is purely coincidental and/or part of a work of parody that should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
In preparation for Conclave 18 (which is an absolute *banger,* the Society is re-running Verifier Andy's Profile in Cinemania celebrating Jeffrey Combs. See if you can guess what Combs-driven feature is going to feature in our next Conclave!
Written and produced by Andy Slack
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody only and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Winding down our delve into all matters Frankensteinian, Verifier Andy and Cinquisitor Ethan meet to discuss the feminist-friendly flesh-golem feature film from 2023 "Poor Things," by Yorgos Lanthimos.
Written & produced by Andy Slack
Performed by Andy Slack & Ethan Ireland
Sound design & editing by Andy Slack
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Cinquisitor Ethan,
Keeper of the Lenses
Brother Ethan is an award-winning filmmaker who has more than 20 years professional work in film & television production. He has worked on more than a dozen feature films, and has directed & produced several of his own projects: documentary features and short films. He is best recognized for the work he did on four seasons on the hit YouTube comedy series Smosh.
A self-styled intellectual, Cinquisitor Ethan has put many thousands of hours studying cinema apocrypha for interesting tidbits, and combing through the history for cinema for sources of CINEMANIA in order to study the devastating effects of this condition.
CINEMANIA Manifestations: The disorder in Cinquisitor Ethan can be fairly easy to observe. Although he is purportedly a native of California, when CINEMANIA begins to take hold in Cinquisitor Ethan, his accent becomes increasingly elaborate. He will shift into a Midatlantic accent, and even into an RP accent depending on the severity of the episode he is suffering. This can happen multiple times in a given conclave.
Verifier Andy,
Master Illuminator
Perhaps our most mysterious member, Brother Andy lurks somewhere in darkest Albion, magically honing his skills in comedy and illustration to a razor's edge.
Brother Andy's internet comics, including The Wisdom of Leto II and its sequel, FremCops, have achieved notoriety from their appearances in various Facebook shitposting groups such as Dune Sietchposting, Star Trek Shitposting, and others. He has these and numerous other self-published sci-fi & fantasy comics available on at andyslackcomics.com, and for sale on Ko-Fi.
In case you're wondering, no, he is not really Jack Black, so don't ask.
Scrutinizer Zacharia,
Guardian of the Door
A veteran of theater production, Brother Zacharia graduated from film school at California State University, Monterey Bay along with Brother Ethan, who has been his decades-long accomplice in the commission of cinematic crimes.
Brother Zacharia is a third-generation artist, descended from a line of visual artists, and has put much study into the causes and effects of CINEMANIA.
Profligator Daniel,
Possessor of the Word
Hailing from New Jersey, Brother Daniel writes for theater, literature, and cinema esoterica. He is somewhat of an expert on Troma Films, and was trained in writing short fiction by Harlon Ellison.
Profligator Daniel is the primary caregiver of Brother Clark-Nova, who is an unholy amalgamation of equal parts cockroach, manual typewriter, and portions of human anatomy best left unseen.
Arbiter Alessa,
Voice from the Outer World
Our youngest member, Arbiter Alessa attended film school in Los Angeles after producing a feature film of her own while still in high school. She has experience working professionally on features and shorts, and is a working voice actor for several notable anime series including Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Arbiter Alessa recently went on an extended vacation to Altair IV, where she encountered an atomic super-robot similar to (and more importantly, legally distinct from) Robby the Robot. After taking her new plastic pal on an interstellar pub-crawl, she returned to the Strip Mall of the Damned with the machine in tow, where she has since conducted several experiments on it (including the downloading of the entire internet into the robot's databanks).
Professor Andrea,
Scholar of San Francisco
Professor Andrea holds multiple degrees in film, Spanish, and music; and has taught all three. She has a deep knowledge of film history, and a history of work in film production, including on films with Cinquisitor Ethan.
Auntie Hope,
Keeper of the Books
Hope is a relative newcomer to the Society, and to the field of CINEMANIA as a whole. She granted herself membership status and a title after the Society were responsible for unleashing a horde of cannibalistic humanoid underground mutant people (C.H.U.M.P.s) that destroyed her family-friendly occult bookstore, The Laughing Tome. She intends to be as underfoot as possible until her store is repaired.