Many Ghost Stories for Christmas
The Internet Archive has a cache of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas from 1971-2024. See them all here. (Thanks, Toffph!)
Banned in the District: New Bad Brains
Local news in Washington, D. C. has a story about newly uncovered music from seminal punk band, Bad Brains. The story includes brief interviews and footage of Bad Brains performing. Watch here.
The Deathstalker Musical Experience
Composer Bear McCreary has some thoughts on writing the music for Deathstalker (2025) and working with Slash, Chuck Cirino and Brendan McCreary! It includes a glorious music video. “Vivid memories of countless nights spent watching bad cult movies with my childhood friends flooded my mind, accompanied by the […]
Hat on a Hat on a Dinosaur: Jurassic Overkill and Instant Aliens
Some part of my brain still responds to the idea of a new Jurassic franchise movie with excitement, even though experience tells me it’s going to fail to fill the dino-sized shoes of Jurassic Park. It’s the same with Alien. Maybe there’s some element of the inevitable in […]
The Feminine Critique: Slashers!
At the Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Initravia and Christine Makepeace discuss slasher movies! “It’s the episode where Emily and Christine discuss everything they know about slashers and even more things they don’t! We go over the rules, our favorites, our controversies, and much more.” […]
“Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to be Racist”
Adam Serwer has shared a gift link to his fantastic piece on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, the history of “fantasy racism,” and the interplay between fantasy racism and “scientific racism.” “D&D was the original role-playing game, a structure that has influenced every kind of genre fiction […]
The Cultural Gutter 