BBC Archive 1973: England’s Deadliest Chair!
Are you ready to face the horror of England’s deadliest chair? “In the last six years, five people have sat in the murderer’s chair… and every single one has met sudden death.” Click here, if you dare!
“Blood on a Hare’s Claw”
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 […]
Heat and Dust
Merchant and Ivory’s India-set films tend to rip out my heart and stomp on it—in a good way. Two years ago I wrote about Shakespeare-Wallah for Switcheroo Month, and here I am again, this time with a sort of bildungsroman, complicated by imperial socio-political goings-on. Heat and Dust […]
BBC Radio 4 Wicker Man radio play starring Brian Blessed!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! THE WICKER MAN!!!!! BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!! DECEMBER 2nd!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! (There is a whole day of companion programs on folk horror and folk music also on December 2nd). LISTEN HERE.
BBC Archives: The Enfield Poltergeist
BBC Archives has a report from 1977 on a poltergeist in Ponder’s End, Enfield. “‘Either 17 people have all been having hallucinations – including the police – or this is the best-documented ghost story of all time.’ Nationwide’s James Hogg reports from a seemingly ordinary, suburban house in […]
Shakespeare in Love
April, again, and gazing up from the Gutter, my colleagues and I must now tear our eyes from the stars and turn them instead to the vaunted facades of ivory towers. Or to put it another way: time to get reputable up in this biz. His canon is […]
The Cultural Gutter 