At The Tate blog, Susan Owens writes about how ghosts and spirits have changed. “I was intrigued to find the idea of the dead returning to their old homes so entrenched in the British imagination, and it made me reflect on the place ghosts have in our culture. […]
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
This week’s Guest Star is long time friend of the Gutter Jared Shurin. Jared is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. His previous anthologies have been finalists for (and usually lost) the Hugo Awards, World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Awards, and British Fantasy Awards. He’s […]
The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on 4 horror movies that screened at this year’s Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans! “This year I was fortunate enough to attend–remotely–the 2024 Overlook Film Festival. I would have loved to attend a horror film festival in New Orleans. I […]
Confession time: I’ve never been a big consumer of the live meta-commentary subset of horror, or live commentary on movies in general*. I very rarely turn on the director’s commentary on DVDs, and I can count on one hand the number of Mystery Science Theatre or Joe Bob […]
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