Atun-Shei Films
I'm Andrew Rakich, a filmmaker with an interest in history. I always cite my sources.
Atun-Shei Films is primarily viewer supported. If you enjoy my work, I hope you’ll consider joining my Patreon, giving me a one-time donation on Paypal, or buying merch from my online store.
My movie The Sudbury Devil is available to stream on Tubi, Prime Video, and Apple TV+, but the best way to support the filmmakers is to buy it from us directly at atunsheifilms.vhx.tv/ where you can also gain access to over six hours of special features.
I don’t take corporate sponsorships. If you are an influencer manager, please don’t bother contacting me. All other business inquiries can reach me and my team using the contact form below.
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Hey y'all, I'm doing a Q&A video to close out 2025! Please comment all your burning questions below! 🔥 Just FYI, I'm more likely to answer your question if it's open-ended and prompts elaboration, opinions, and anecdotes. Please try to avoid "yes" or "no" questions, such as "Will you cover X thing on your channel," or questions that come at the end of long-winded statements – short and snappy is best. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Anyway, here's an old picture of me from my smokin' days.
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Happy Day of the Dead! 💜 there are only 10 SPOTS LEFT in the Esoteric New England tour with me and @TheEsotericaChannel, which will happen next October. Buy your tickets here before we sell out! www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/shop/p/esoteric-new-e…
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Next October, Dr. Justin Sledge of @TheEsotericaChannel are going on tour through New England, and you're invited! Join us for a week of sightseeing through some of Massachusetts' and Rhode Island's most fascinating historic sites. There are only 30 spots available and we expect to sell out fast, so buy your tickets now at www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/shop/p/esoteric-new-e…
Part of the reason we're doing this is to raise money for a short film we want to make in 2027 called "The Alchemist." Details are in the video below! Hope to see a few of y'all next year!
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If you watch another Frankenstein video this week, make it @MattBaume‘s excellent deep dive into the life of James Whale, the brilliant gay director who brought us “Frankenstein” (1931) and “The Bride of Frankenstein.”
I’d known about the subversive and queer elements Whale and his troupe had injected into their horror films, but I didn’t know that Universal caved to pressure from the Nazis and censored a World War I epic he directed later in his career — a crazy story! Highly recommend the video!
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most misunderstood novels in literary history. Often written off as an anti-science screed, careful reading reveals it instead to be a timeless parable about human responsibility that grapples with fundamental questions about what we owe to our planet and to each other. In a feature-length analysis dropping just before Halloween, we'll be rediscovering the true radicalism of Shelley's vision through the prism of sexuality, family, and the ethics of the creation of life.
This one's gonna be an Atun-Shei all-timer, folks (and even better, it's part of a collaboration with @TheEsotericaChannel). The video is currently available for early access over on www.patreon.com/atunsheifilms
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With Halloween just around the corner, and some distinctly spooky things going on behind the scenes right now at Atun-Shei Films, here's a playlist of all my videos which touch on the historically macabre – from mythological ghouls and demons to the monster inside us all: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Totally unrelated, but y'all ever notice how there are no good video essays about Frankenstein on this platform? 👀
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HAPPY LEIF ERIKSON DAY! Just wanted to pop in with a quick message to let y'all know that yes, the allegations are true – there will be no new Leif Erikson Day special on Atun-Shei Films this year. I've been swamped with pre-production on my vampire movie, as well as writing and shooting a feature-length video essay on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that will be coming out later this month. Since I was so crunched for time, I decided it would be better to focus my energy on that stuff rather than shit out something half-baked.
But I hope you can rise above this devastating news and still find a way to enjoy the holiday. May your Leif Erikson Day be filled with joy, laughter, booze, pillaging, and more booze. SKOL!
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The algorithm is being finicky (but then again, what else is new). In case you missed it, here’s my buddy Benton and I traversing the route of the first offensive campaign in the history of the American army by boat, foot, and terrible horrible no-good portage. Enjoy! 🇺🇸
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It's one thing to sit in your favorite armchair and read about Colonel Benedict Arnold's grueling march across the wilds of Maine to seize the fortress of Quebec City from the British – it's another to strap your hiking boots on, hop in a boat, and try to do it yourself. Early next week, come along with me and Benton Guinness as we trace Arnold's route over lakes, mountains, and portages through one of the last great wildernesses of America's East Coast.
Check out a little preview here www.instagram.com/reel/DOeoWzYAGez/
The video is currently available for early access over on www.patreon.com/atunsheifilms
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