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 […]
At the Projection Booth Podcast, friends of the Gutter Mike White and Emily Intravia join Samm Deighan to discuss The Apple Fell! “It’s the story of Adam Schmidt (Bobby Todd) who is torn between his wife Lilith (Joana Maria Gorvin) and his mistress Eve (Bettina Moissi). Despondent, Adam […]
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 […]
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