When my dad died earlier this year, we hadn’t spoken in months. We weren’t speaking because I wasn’t speaking to him, which was less a deliberate choice than a series of panicked, spur-of-the-moment reactions. After decades of arguments and sour distance between us, in the last months of […]
On BBC 4, Mark Gatiss and Richard Coles go on a ghost hunt that is as much a discussion of M.R. James and English ghost story tradition as it is a tour of the most haunted town in England. “Mark Gatiss has spent his career writing about ghosts, […]
One day, William Shatner will die, and every obituary will be for Captain Kirk. A paragraph or so down, they will mention his Emmys for Boston Legal, his numerous comebacks, T.J. Hooker and Rescue 911, and then go on to celebrate his diverse creative portfolio, his sprechgesang, his […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched the the action-comedy Ghost Killer (Japan, 2024) and has some thoughts! In Kensuke Sonomura’s Ghost Killer a woman is haunted by the ghost of a murdered assassin trapped on Earth by his desire for revenge. Frequent Sonomura collaborator Akari Takaishi (Baby Assassin […]
You might reasonably think that as one of Netflix’s top 10 shows of all time, Bridgerton season 3 is not exactly Gutter material, but I ask you: is there anything more gutter than millions of people obsessively listening to a classical string arrangement of a Pitbull song they […]
In 2020, after decades–literal decades–of Final Fantasy VII side stories, prequels, sequels, spinoffs, and cameo fan service, Square Enix rolled out Final Fantasy VII: Remake, the first part of a planned trilogy which would see the beloved 1997 Japanese role-playing game reborn into the modern gaming era. It […]
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