Angela Englert accidentally fed her mogwai after midnight, so she’s going to be afk this month. In the meantime, please enjoy this look back at MR James’s classic Christmas ghost stories, and with any luck, she’ll be back in the new year. Or something will. Imagine, if you […]
It was such a long time ago and so mundane, but I remember it as if it were a turning point. I was browsing a boutiquey bookstore, blonde pine shelves stuffed with the kinds of books that end up on self-help short lists. Maybe I was just killing […]
Please enjoy this extra-large article in celebration of the spooky season here at the Gutter. It was originally written for a magazine that took longer entries, but things happen. Hopefully it’s like getting a full-sized candy bar from the house with the dad that uses a radio controlled […]
Generational trauma knows no particular race, ethnicity, or personal experience but there is a unique and uniquely bitter flavour when it sets itself on Black lives. In communities where violence can be routine but the lasting effects and the voids it creates are anything but, trauma is often […]
There is a conventional wisdom that says works of horror are at heart cautionary tales and that once you tear up their planks, all you will find beating beneath is a pulpy warning to the curious, a brutal morality tale leftover from darkest days and firelit nights. This […]
Prince of Darkness (1987) is not often included among John Carpenter’s greatest films. To be fair, he has a lot of great films. The writer-director-composer-grumpy soundbite generator has clocked an embarrassment of beloved cinema in his time. Halloween (1978), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big […]
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