New at Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins start a series dedicated to India’s acting dynasty, the Kapoors, with a look at the dynasty’s founder, Prithviraj: “Today we’re launching a new series on the first family of Hindi cinema: THE KAPOORS! Founding great-granddaddy […]
With the sprawling desert landscapes and vast rumbling sandworms of Dune 2 now gracing theatre screens, it seems like the perfect time to raise the specter of a very different Arrakis that never came to pass. While Denis Villeneuve’s treatment of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci fi novel, Dune, […]
When I was eight years old, my mother showed me a stuttering laserdisc version of Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) and changed my life. (Good one, Mom.) Formerly a fraidy cat, I fell in love–with Dracula, with horror, with Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó Lugosi. I also fell in love […]
December 6th was the 50th anniversary of the folk horror (and Beltane holiday) classic, The Wicker Man’s release. It seems positively disreputable to let the event pass completely unmarked. So this month we are presenting an essay Carol Borden originally wrote on The Wicker Man‘s origins for CG Editor […]
Ever since I was a kid, I remember waiting impatiently for the monsters in the movie to appear. I was always moving around, doing head stands or jiggling my knees, but whenever there were strange creatures, shaggy beasts, alien beings, or puppets on the screen they had my […]
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 […]
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