There is nothing charming about the red fairy door we encounter in Aislinn Clark’s Irish language horror film, Fréwaka (Ireland, 2024).* Its fairy tree is old and hung with scissors and bones. And there is nothing safe about the Good Folk attracted to the house with the fairy door in it.
At The Witching Hour Is Nigh, Peg Aloi and and friend of the Gutter Kate Laity discuss Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)! “My special guest and friend Kate Laity, who was featured on my first podcast episode, and I went to see The Substance late last fall and […]
At Film International, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas writes about The Substance (2024): “I live a very different life from Elisabeth Sparkle and–for that matter–from Demi Moore. But despite the fantastic excesses of Coralie Fargeat’s slick cinema du look body horror, in many ways I don’t think I have ever felt […]
At Mostly Film, Blake Backlash writes about films “mixing of Hollywood’s Grande Dames with Grand Guignol.” “Such cinematic mixing of Grande Dames and Grand Guignol had its heyday in the second-half of the sixties, and such films are sometimes (more-or-less) affectionately known as psycho-biddy pictures. They tended to […]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget why I like comics and 2010 was a particularly tough year, in comics and otherwise. But here are 10 that reminded me why I do like them. There’s a lot of crime, anthropomorphic animals, gorgeous art, silly fun, people dealing with things the […]
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