Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Rocky Mountains (place) 3 — Mountain range where the poster had a formative road trip experience while reading The Two Towers, connecting fantasy li...

The Holy Mountain (film) 3 — A film referenced as providing a 'mind fuck' experience that would make mental sexual activity with a tulpa pointless by...

Sergei Parajanov (person) 3 — Film director whose work is compared favorably to Jodorowsky's, with Jodorowsky described as 'the poor mans Parajanov'

The Color of Pomegranates (film) 3 — Film by Sergei Parajanov watched at Red Scare movie night the week before The Holy Mountain

Grillpill (concept) 3 — Philosophy of disengaging from online discourse for genuine human experiences, explored through horseback riding and mee...

Robert Altman (person) 3 — Film director known for large ensemble dramadies, used as a comparison point for the series White Lotus

The Inbetweeners (film) 3 — British television series and film described as culturally revolutionary in depicting awkward adolescent behavior and sh...

The Worst Person in the World (film) 3 — A 2021 film that received critical acclaim but left some viewers underwhelmed despite glowing reviews

Billie Holiday (person) 3 — Jazz singer whose music is considered appropriate for coffee shop ambiance, contrasted with loud country music.

Andy Dick (person) 3 — Comedian mentioned in connection with Phil Hartman as subject of Reddit's repetitive moral condemnation.

House of Leaves (book) 3 — A cult postmodern novel known for its experimental typography and unconventional page layouts.

Dave Matthews (person) 3 — Musician whose album 'Crash' is praised despite the poster disliking the college hype around the artist.

Jonas Brothers (person) 3 — Pop band whose song "Sucker" became an intrusive mental earworm for a poster over an extended period

Buchenwald (place) 3 — Nazi concentration camp where Robert Desnos was imprisoned and allegedly performed an act of imaginative resistance

Kabbalah (concept) 3 — Jewish mystical tradition involving the ten divine Sephirot and Metatron, humorously referenced as being polytheistic ra...

Rumble (place) 3 — Video platform where Steve Bannon broadcasts after being banned from YouTube, discussed as alternative media space.

Blow-Up (film) 3 — A 1960s/70s classic film featuring enveloping sound design, particularly noted for a calming-yet-ominous park scene that...

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) (concept) 3 — A future technology discussed in the context of job market disruption and fears about how the billionaire class will tre...

Sean Connery (person) 3 — Actor criticized as a James Bond who is too unflappable and perfect to be capable of rage

Audrey Plaza (person) 3 — An actress in the new season of White Lotus whose character is described as having 'vaccinated' in her Twitter bio

E.T. (film) 3 — A Steven Spielberg film described as charming and featuring normal humans in an extraordinary situation, representing a ...

Big Sur (book) 3 — A Jack Kerouac novel discussed as part of his important literary output alongside On the Road and Dharma Bums.

Ethan Hawke (person) 3 — Actor mentioned as one of the incredible narrators of Jack Kerouac audiobooks who brings out the author's style.

Talk Talk (album) 3 — Band that transformed from '80s one-hit wonder pop to experimental music favored by avant-garde music geeks

Emma Cline (person) 3 — Author of Daddy, a collection of short stories with fully-developed problematic characters

Max Ernst (person) 3 — Surrealist artist who created 'The Fireside Angel' in 1937, also known as 'The Angel of Hearth and Home' and later retit...

The Interpretation of Dreams (book) 3 — Freud's foundational psychoanalytic text praised for its framework on authority and family despite questions about its f...

Benny Safdie (person) 3 — Director whose film flopped despite a stellar cast, contrasted with his brother Josh's success.

Whitney Houston (person) 3 — A musician whose 1980s music videos featured extremely gay dancing, part of the era's distinctive aesthetic.

Trapped in the Closet (film) 3 — R. Kelly's musical soap opera suggested as worthy of theatrical screenings comparable to cult classics like The Room or ...

Desertshore (album) 3 — Album by Nico that was being listened to during a midnight campus walk.

Risperdal (concept) 3 — An antipsychotic medication prescribed to a patient who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, resulting in significant si...

Buffy (film) 3 — TV show (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) described as a guilty pleasure featuring Whedon's quippy dialogue style

Big Black (person) 3 — Noise rock band discussed in conversation about non-mainstream music

Francesco Hayez (person) 3 — Artist whose painting "The Kiss" is featured in a collection of romantic art alongside works by Dicksee, Toulouse-Lautre...

Bertrand Russell (person) 3 — Philosopher quoted on the subject of narcissism as an excess of self-admiration and desire to be admired that destroys g...

Pavement (person) 3 — Band mentioned as an obvious comparison to Silver Jews, assumed to already be known by those seeking similar artists.

Ignatius J. Reilly (person) 3 — Fictional character whose commentary style is compared to posts on the Red Scare subreddit, described as the sub's patro...

PJ Harvey (person) 3 — Musician that a poster listened to all day and couldn't stop thinking about

Leaving Las Vegas (film) 3 — Film referenced by a liquor store employee hoping to recreate its plot in a gender-reversed scenario with a regular cust...

Christopher Hitchens (person) 3 — Atheist author whose work, along with Dawkins, influenced the poster's early atheist phase before they came to wish they...

Franz Ferdinand (person) 3 — Archduke whose assassination sparked World War I, referenced as an example of historical catalytic events that are not r...

12 Rules for Life (book) 3 — A book by Jordan Peterson that received a five-star rating from an economics professor, surprising the post author who t...

Sleigh Bells (album) 3 — Music duo described as underrated Red Scare artist whose music feels like the soundtrack to a 2000s teen comedy about a ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (book) 3 — Hunter S. Thompson book defended as a genuinely politically relevant parody of drug-abuse-as-personality mindset, unfair...

Ross Douthat (person) 3 — A public figure mentioned in context of envisioning child benefits as part of a pro-life political agenda.

All the Pretty Horses (book) 3 — Cormac McCarthy novel described as a romantic departure from his typical violence-focused work, primarily concerned with...

Lindsay Ellis (person) 3 — YouTuber who quit the platform due to constant scrutiny and toxicity, described as someone who tried to do right but was...

Arthur Rimbaud (person) 3 — French poet referenced in a DeLillo quote as an artist who made the leap from individual soul to universal soul.

Rinse FM (place) 3 — London radio station that transitioned from pirate radio to legal community station in the early 2010s, criticized by un...