It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]
CG Editor Emeritus Angela Englert has an essay in the inaugural issue of Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States. She writes on The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) and the film it is based on, Tom Tryon’s 1973 novel, Harvest Home. Plus, friend of the Gutter […]
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Angela Englert writes about the retro folk horror of Starve Acre! “With roiling atmosphere and vibes to spare, Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre (2023) hearkens to what many regard as a simpler, purer time–a time of cycles and seasons, of neighbors agreed […]
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Angela Englert writes a lovely piece on Saw X, the Saw franchise and her own struggle to stay alive. “I often thought of John Kramer (Tobin Bell)–Jigsaw if you’re nasty–and the bitter truth at the heart of his philosophy: life is […]
I had an uninvited guest once, and it was inside me. If you’ve ever seen a sonogram of a cancer tumor, a demon analogy isn’t too much hyperbole. Tumors look objectively wicked and wrong. The barbs of its flesh under my own skin pricked. And while it was […]
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity watches Emily Harris’ Carmilla (2019). Read her thoughts here. (And you can read the Gutter’s own Angela’s piece on Carmilla here).
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