Fantasia 2019, Day 9, Part 2: J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius
My second and last movie on July 19 was a documentary named for its subject: J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius (a film known in some quarters as Slacking Towards Bethlehem). Directed by Sandy K. Boone, it’s a history of a mock religion which got started more than 40 years ago, and still goes strong today. It was begun by two bright misfit young men in the late 1970s, when Douglas Smith AKA Ivan Stang and Steve…