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SFULTRA

All Units is an anatomy of the thriller. Every two weeks Sean McTiernan creates a double bill in the hopes of exploring and understanding another aspect of thriller cinema.

Every other week, Calling All Units will answer questions from listeners, the host and, if necessary, the authorities.

If you keep a running list of movies you want to watch, prepare for it to get much, much longer.

SFULTRA #3 - Electric Forest - Tanith Lee

Mar 29, 2023

“The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it.”

- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the...

SFULTRA #2 - Doloriad - Missouri Williams

Mar 15, 2023

"Blood essence
Order in the world now

Possessions, a bow tied around the hair
You let me cut, you let me cut

Delusions, black out
Arrogance, black out
Delusions, watercolor
Arrogance, blue skin"

- Inner Controller (Lucid Running Home), Cloud Rat

SFULTRA #1 - High Rise - JG Ballard

Mar 1, 2023

"Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research. " - Industrial Society And Its Future, Ted...

SFULTRA #0 - Why Science Fiction?

Mar 1, 2023

I try to explain why I've embarked on this project.