Happy Birthday, Ennio Morricone!
It’s Ennio Morricone’s 82nd birthday. To celebrate, let’s listen to a little music. “Pazuzu,” “Valmont’s Go Go Club,” two songs from Death Rides A Horse and “The Ecstasy of Gold” (conducted by Morricone himself).
Journal of the Witchfinder General
Do you know the disturbing 1968 horror film The Witchfinder General, in which Vincent Price plays Matthew Hopkins a sadistic witch-hunter appointed by Parliament? The University of Manchester John Ryland’s Library is digitizing a 400-year-old diary recording the historical Hopkins’ inquisition.
Waiting for Gorgo?
Do you remember Gorgo? The giant monster that raced up from the oceanic depths and devastated London? The DMOA do.
Female Characters in Sexist Worlds
Two articles about female characters and representing sexism and misogyny in Mad Men and The Social Network.
RIP, Roy Ward Baker
Director and Hammer horror icon Roy Ward Baker has died at the age of 93. Baker directed Quatermass and the Pit, The Vampire Lovers, which updated Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla for a more psychedelic and softcore age, and co-directed Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires with Shaw Bros. Chang […]
RIP, Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart has died at 100. Most of the media remembers her as the elder Rose in Titanic. The Gutter remembers her in the James Whale classic, The Old Dark House. The New York Times obituary discusses her many accomplishments outside film here.
The Cultural Gutter 