“A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft, and Voodoo in Film”
Tanya Krzywinska has made her hard to find classic, A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft, and Voodoo in Film (2001) available for free on her website. You can read it here.
The Gutter’s own Carol on From Black (USA, 2023)!
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Thomas Marchese’s From Black. “There has been a wave of horror movies about motherhood, ambivalence about motherhood and reproduction, complicated often witchy women, and grief. Films like: Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (Australia, 2014), Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution (France, 2015), Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (UK, […]
The Exorcist in Comic Form
Did you know that mangaka Kazuo Umezu created a feature to promote the release of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1972) in Japan? He did–and you can see it here! (Thanks, Sayantan!) You can also read a piece on Kazuo Umezu by the Gutter’s own Carol here.
Halaloween: The Fourth Annual Muslim Horror Film Festival!
Enjoy this Spookoween Season with Halaloween: the Fourth Annual Muslim Horror Film Festival presented by the University of Michigan’s Global Islamic Studies Center and features excellent films including: Roh (Malaysia, 2018); Beddua: The Curse (Turkey, 2019); and, Satan’s Slaves (Indonesia, 2017). These films are free and streaming online. […]
Ghoul (2018): Reveal Their Guilt
Ghoul (2018) is as bleak as might be expected for a series that starts with the line, “Strike a deal with your blood and out of the smokeless fire the ghul will come.” It’s a three episode miniseries that addresses fascism, state terror, and individual guilt in a […]
“33 Essential LGBTQ+ Horror Movies”
Jordan Crucchiola shares a list of essential LGBTQ+ horror movies at the Rotten Tomatoes blog. “As long as there have been horror films, there have been queer horror films. Before homosexuality was formally legislated out of existence in Hollywood by the Production Code — commonly referred to as the […]
