When trying to decide what to write about this month, I realized director/producer Ram Gopal Varma has yet to appear on the Cultural Gutter—and that simply will not do. Some people reading this essay will assume I might write about one of his thrillers, since horror is a […]
Happy Year of the Dragon, everyone! The Year of the Dragon only comes once every 12 years and I have let it slip by before without writing about my favorite dragon, well, favorite space dragon, His Chaotic Majesty, King Ghidorah. As the Year of the Dragon commences, and […]
Rene Cardona’s Batwoman (1968) has a wrestling boot planted firmly in the worlds of horror and lucha libre.
When I was eight years old, my mother showed me a stuttering laserdisc version of Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) and changed my life. (Good one, Mom.) Formerly a fraidy cat, I fell in love–with Dracula, with horror, with Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó Lugosi. I also fell in love […]
Horror wears many different skins. Sometimes literally, although in this case I mean that while people have come up with a multitude of wildly different concepts for horror stories, what lurks underneath that shifting surface of zombies, serial killers, parasites, and clowns is our deepest fears. Among the […]
December 6th was the 50th anniversary of the folk horror (and Beltane holiday) classic, The Wicker Man’s release. It seems positively disreputable to let the event pass completely unmarked. So this month we are presenting an essay Carol Borden originally wrote on The Wicker Man‘s origins for CG Editor […]
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