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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Nocebo (Philippines / Ireland, 2022) is a blend of Gothic manor house horror, Southeast Asian witchcraft movies, and horror set in the world of fashion. Instead of focusing on connivances and cruelties within the world of haute couture fashion houses, like, say, Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace […]
Summer is nearly upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere and it is, to say the least, an uncertain time. I don’t know what your plans are. Maybe a camping trip. Maybe the beach. Maybe you feel safe traveling for vacation. Maybe you’re just going to the park […]
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The Cultural Gutter 