Richard Wolstencroft, the Aussie behind the classic underground Boyd Rice vehicle Pearls Before Swine (1999) – a movie that any weirdo reading this should stop and watch right now if they never have before – is back with the second installment of The Second Coming, the first volume of which was finished in 2015. Part of an even grander series that Wolstencroft calls the “March on Rome” trilogy, the two halves of The Second Coming comprise a magickal diptych of miscegenated and mutated gleanings from Crowley, Manson, nuclear physics, social Darwinism, Faustian racialism, and William Butler Yeats, whose poem “The Second Coming” provides the inspiration for a nebulous plot involving a global conspiracy of revolutionary dissidents attempting to usher in a new age of unmediocrity through occult, scientific, degenerate, and quasi-fascistic skullduggery. If such a revolt against the modern world is to be successful, The Second Coming indicates, its principal stumbling block will be the mutual distrust of the various elements necessary to bring the new order into being.
This is essentially a no-budget undertaking – the only money spent seems to have been on travel expenses for the mix of dully mundane and dangerously exotic locations – but what makes The Second Coming a must-see film is the assortment of oddballs Wolstencroft managed to assemble to participate in his production. There are too many to name, but readers may be especially interested to know that proto-Alt-Right hate scene legends Jim Goad and Boyd Rice both have small but perfectly cast and hilarious roles as players in the satanic conspiracy. The phone conversation between the two of them, short as it is, is one of the greatest moments ever stitched together for a movie. A gloriously off-the-wall Kim Fowley, Shaun Partridge, and late Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey also have cameos in The Second Coming, in case the foregoing was not already enough to entice the viewer. In my book, I briefly discuss the potential for the emergence of a white nationalist cinema. Is Wolstencroft’s The Second Coming the realization of this ideal? Well … not exactly. Wolstencroft is too individual a creator and too perverted a reprobate for that. The Second Coming does, however, gesture vaguely in the directions that such a cinema might undertake to explore if it ever emerged from the wilderness of its online chaos. Both volumes of Wolstencroft’s epic can be accessed through Affirmative Right – free to view for a limited time.
Rainer is the author of Protocols of the Elders of Zanuck: Psychological Warfare and Filth at the Movies – The DEFINITIVE Alt-Right statement on Hollywood!
Noted, thanks. It’s almost certain that a political resurgence of whites will be preceded by a cultural one. I was friendly quite some years ago with a film school graduate with nationalist tendencies but a prickly personality. He indulged his vices rather pursuing his dream. I kept telling him he had nothing to lose – nothing – and could have really carved a name for himself where no competition exists ie. in the traditionalist sphere. Bottom line, he was too lazy, too proud, or just not as impassioned about the cause as me.
Pretty dark. I don’t think you have to go occult to see some sort of ghastly denouement.
Richard Spencer, in his livestream with Frame Games last night, said that when the next major political shift occurs – the next catastrophic game-changer like 9/11 or the ’08 financial crisis – it will probably feel like we’re losing but that this could be when the nationalists’ time has arrived. It’s more likely things will simply continue to get worse, of course, but I enjoy the perspective of those who prefer to find an opportunity in the chaos.
I thought last year was shaping up as GFC II but was wrong. Rising interest rates will, however, kill the bull market in financial assets. Yields trended lower from 1982 to 2016. From 2016 it’s upwards and this represents a watershed event. My thoughts tend to the pessimistic. Once money becomes tight, the State’s true predatory nature will be apparent to all, whites the obvious target for expropriation. You don’t agree with us? We turn off your MasterCard and freeze your bank account or suspend your pension.
Oh, that’s absent any Iran war, and if I were a betting man…