Puppets + Halloween should equal something right up my alley, but oddly in scary movies it frequently does not. I do love Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which achieves the exact combination of creepy, cute, and quirky that I’m looking for, but it’s not puppets. Some of […]
At Biff Bam Pop, friend of the Gutter Robert A. Mitchell takes a look at the devil in the machine in John Carpenter’s Christine! “In John Carpenter’s Christine (1983) based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King and working off an adapted screenplay by Bill Philips, the devil […]
A dilapidated mansion. An eerie, mist-shrouded forest. A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a seemingly defenseless beautiful and refined young woman. So begins Kuroneko–Kaneto Shindo’s tale of cats, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women (and powerless men) by entitled men. Kuroneko is […]
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Aditya Sarpotdar’s horror comedy, Munjya! “We talk about another good movie from the Maddock horror verse: Munjya. Points discussed: • Green flag heroes • Suhas Joshi as Aaji 😍 • Entitled boys • Marathi Gollum • The […]
At Biff Bam Pop, E. A. Henson interviews comics legend, Mike Allred! “Join us as we talk about the Kickstarter campaign for his new book with Clover Press Art The Marvel Art of Michael Allred! We also chat about Star Wars, prop building, existentialism, his various projects with […]
For Biff Bam Pop’s 31 Days of Horror, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath! “Based on court documents and historical accounts of the true story of a rural Austrian woman named Agnes in 1750, The Devil’s Bath brings a […]
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