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Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Alucarda, la hija de las tiniebla (1977)! “Shocktober 2025 spirals into demonic delirium with Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977). This feverish blast of Mexican Gothic horror follows Justine (Susana Kamini), a sheltered orphan who finds herself drawn to the wild, otherworldly […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Thamma. Unfortunately, “the latest installment in the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe, which frankly feels a little…de-fanged. SORRY NOT SORRY.” Listen/watch here.
At Letterboxd, Marya E. Gates shares 20 noir featured directed by women for your Noirvember viewing pleasure. See the list here.
At Decider, Walter Chaw breaks down 25 great films fro the 21st Century! “A quarter century into the new millennium and what better opportunity to chart the 25 best horror films during that span? New classics, updates or sequels to old classics, and a few curveballs to round […]
The Public Domain Review considers Sabine Baring-Gould’s 1865 Book of Were-Wolves. “Lycanthropes go by many names, writes Sabine Baring-Gould in his ‘account of a terrible superstition,’ and ‘half the world believes, or believed, in were-wolves.’ In France’s Périgord, those born out of wedlock are known to transform into […]
On American Hysteria Podcast. Chelsey Weber-Smith considers the history of “Bloody Mary.” “Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…For our Halloween special, we are going to trace the history of the slumber party ritual known as Bloody Mary in which a young summoner stands in the dark in front of a […]
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