Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
Gloria Stuart has died at 100. Most of the media remembers her as the elder Rose in Titanic. The Gutter remembers her in the James Whale classic, The Old Dark House. The New York Times obituary discusses her many accomplishments outside film here.
Yellowback novels were pulpy Victorian reading. Emory University has a bunch of them for you to download. (via @houseinrlyeh)
Daywalt Fear Factory has posted a little taste of the upcoming series, Camera Obscura. And, yes, that’s Jack Klugman.
With all the excitement generating in the internetosphere because of the trailer for Wisit Sasanatieng’s upcoming Red Eagle: The Hero Never Dies, now seems like a good time to post this trailer for Insee Thong (Golden Eagle) and 4DK’s review of it.
The narrative frame and theme are heavy handed by the actual adventures are pretty sweet in “The Adventures of Little Batman.”
M.O.D.O.K. becomes a “Machine Designed Only for Kitties” in this gallery of Marvel characters as cats. Other favorites: Galactus and the Punisher. (Thanks, Dave!)
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