Tag: animals

It’s Snake Festival Time! Nagina

[somewhat spoiler-y] My current slot to publish at the Gutter falls just a day before the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist festival for snake deities, Naga Panchami, so I take this auspicious coincidence as a sign to bring forward another Indian snake film. If my research is accurate, the first Indian snake […]

“Rat Trap”

Friend of the Gutter Valerie Polichar’s creepy story, “Rat Trap,” is up at Coffin Bell: “Scratching at the window again. We are going to get in. A whisper, but no sound. He shook his head. You are going to let us in.“ Read more here.

“Ripley on the ‘Flix”

Friend of the Gutter and Patricia Highsmith scholar Kate Laity has some thoughts about the new Netflix adaptation of Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and on Ripley himself. “I had equal parts of anticipation and dread for this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr Ripley especially […]