It is time once again for the end of year lists. When people share the best in film, television, games, comics, and basically all things. I am still terrible at this. So I offer instead an unranked, alphabetical list of some of the things I liked and a […]
Vincent Price reads A Christmas Carol in this 1949 short film. Watch here.
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 […]
At the Criterion blog, Imogen Sara Smith writes about Noir Westerns. “Westerns cover a lot of territory. Dramatizing the most romantic of American myths, they also give form to the darkest inversions of those myths. The genre that celebrated rugged pioneer values and civilization’s conquest of the wilderness […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Sharksploitation (USA, 2023), Stephen Scarlata’s new documentary about sharksploitation! “I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim […]
At the Filmi Ladies podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca and the Hindi adaptation, Kohraa! “We read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, watched the 1940 Hitchcock adaptation, then watched Biren Nag’s 1964 Hindi adaptation Kohraa. There’s much to love in all […]