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Featured Friday: Cults

February 21, 2025 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at the destructive power of cults, how they can disrupt and alter our characters, and the charismatic, megalomaniacal leaders that wield their power.

Our collection includes:

  • Hereditary by Ari Aster
  • Mandy by Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin
  • Midsommar by Ari Aster
  • Strange Angel – “Augurs of Spring” by Mark Heyman
  • Suspiria by David Kajganich
  • The Following – “Pilot” by Kevin Williamson
  • The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Path – “Pilot” by Jessica Goldberg
  • The Wolf of Wall Street by Terence Winter
  • Waco – “Chapter 1: The Strangers Across the Street” by John Erick Dowdle & Drew Dowdle

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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